Gerhart Hauptmann Museum in Jagniątków

The City Museum "Gerhart Hauptmann's House" is located in the villa of the German writer and 1912 Nobel Prize winner - Gerhart Hauptmann in Jelenia Góra - Jagniątków (formerly Agnetendorf).

The massive, castle-like house, architecturally a mixture of historicism and neo-Renaissance, was built in 1900-1901 according to the design of Berlin architect Hans Grisebach. The residence called "Wiesenstein" (Meadow Stone) is located on a granite rock and surrounded by a park of approximately 1.6 ha. It was intended as a viewing villa with a view of the Karkonosze Mountains.

The writer lived in the villa from 1901 until his death in 1946.

For almost half a century, Villa Wiesenstein was both a shelter and a kind of refugium for the writer, as well as the center of cultural and social life for many creators, writers, intellectuals, artists from the Karkonosze and Berlin circles, as well as a place famous for its valuable art collections.
After the writer's death, the "Warszawianka" Children's Holiday Center was established here, which until 1997 accepted children and teenagers for winter holidays and summer schools. Just after the breakthrough in 1989, in accordance with the joint statement of the Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl and the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, it was decided to establish a museum dedicated to the Nobel Prize winner in this place.

The villa currently operates as the "Gerhart Hauptmann House" City Museum, which is a cultural institution of the City of Jelenia Góra.

The museum promoting the multicultural nature of the heritage of the Lower Silesia region statutorily carries out activities related to museum work: collecting, storing and making available for scientific and educational purposes collections related to literary works
G. Hauptmann as well as the literature and material history of Silesia. Scientific and educational activities include research on the literature and history of Silesia, international workshops, symposia and scientific conferences of a literary, theatrical, museum and historical nature, as well as other cultural events, concerts and readings, and author's evenings. The museum's activities are enriched by a specialized library with a reading room where, among many interesting items of German and Silesian literature, there are valuable first editions of Hauptmann's works, photos, archives, scientific studies and monographs on the writer.

On the ground floor of the villa there is a small publishing shop.

open: all year round from Tuesday to Sunday: from 1/10 to 30/04 from from 9.00-16.00 and in the summer season, i.e. from 1/05-30/09 from from 9.00 a.m. -5.00 p.m.
ticket prices: regular – PLN 6, reduced (children, pupils, students) – PLN 3
Guided tour in Polish – PLN 25; in German – PLN 40

City Museum "Gerhart Hauptmann House"
street Michawicka 32, 58-570 Jelenia Góra
tel. 75 755 32 86, fax 75 755 63 95
www.muzeum-dgh.pl - http://www.muzeum-dgh.pl/
kontakt@muzeum-dgh.pl