Hesse´s grandfather Hermann Gundert and his family lived in the top building on the alley from 1859 to 1862 before moving to the publishing association building on Bischofstraße. Philipp Manz´s tavern, frequented by the hospital beneficiaries in Hesse´s story “In der alten Sonne” (In the Old Sun), would be located at the retaining wall opposite. In “The Glass Bead Game,” Metzgergasse is described as “Josef-Knecht-Gasse.”




























