Bach House

The Bach House in Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany, is a museum committed to the composer Johann Sebastian Bach who turned into born within the metropolis. On its six hundred m² it presentations round 250 original exhibits, amongst them a Bach tune autograph. The middle of the constructing complicated is a half of timbered house, ca. 550 years old, which became mistakenly diagnosed as Bach's delivery house in the middle of the 19th century. In 1905, the Leipzig-based totally Niue Bachgesellschaft acquired the constructing. In 1907, it became opened because the first Bach museum.

The Bach own family became a extensive musical own family, with contributors running in musical professions throughout Thuringia since the first half of of the sixteenth century till the quit of the 18th century. Already in 1665, Johann Christoph Bach was appointed organist at St. George's in Eisenach. The ancient Bach House is one of the oldest residential homes in Eisenach. It firstly consisted of homes, of which the japanese element was constructed in 1456 and the western part in 1458. At round 1611, each were joined.