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[10] Steinhaus

Description

Built in 1694 for Johannes Schill, a partner in the Calw "Zeughandlungscompagnie", in the South Tyrolean architectural style, which Schill had come to know and appreciate on business trips to Bolzano, when Hesse´s uncle Friedrich Gundert married Emma Heermann, the last heiress to Schill´s house, in 1873, one of the oldest and most beautiful houses in the city became a house of music thanks to him, who was managing director of the Calw publishing association and a great admirer of Johann Sebastian Bach as well as director of the Calw church choral society. In the story "Schön ist die Jugend", Hesse has the first-person narrator pay a visit to this house.