Kernerhaus, Literary museum in Weinsberg, Germany.

The Kernerhaus is a literary museum in Weinsberg, housed in the one-storey building erected in 1822 for the physician and poet Justinus Kerner. Its rooms preserve the living quarters, and since 1908 the Justinus-Kerner-Verein has displayed personal objects, paintings, manuscripts and books documenting his life and medical practice.

The house was built in 1822 and became a meeting place for many well-known artists and intellectuals throughout the 19th century. After Kerner's death, the building developed into a public place of remembrance.

The house shows how Kerner built his life between medicine and poetry, and which artists and thinkers came to visit him. Visitors can see the rooms where these creative people gathered and shared their ideas.

The museum occupies the house, garden and Geisterturm, all under monument protection and owned by the Justinus-Kerner-Verein since 1907. The tower is reached from the garden through a wall opening Kerner had made in 1824. The Alexanderhäuschen lies a short walk away, so plan the visit as a circuit of three separate buildings.

The Alexanderhäuschen was not built as a guest lodge: Kerner bought the plot in 1828 with an old mortuary on it and converted that building into a guesthouse. The neighbouring tower, a former prison tower (Diebsturm) acquired in 1824, was reached through a breach in his garden wall and held a laundry and a tower room; legends gave it the name Geisterturm.