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Museum Gotisches Haus
Museum Gotisches Haus
address
Gotische Allee 1
61350 Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe
61350 Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe
Phone
+49 (0) 6172 100 4133
eMail
museum@bad-homburg.de
Web
Social media
Opening hours
Monday
Closed
Tuesday
2–5 pm
Wednesday
2–5 pm
Thursday
2–5 pm
Friday
2–5 pm
Saturday
2–5 pm
Sunday
12–5 pm
Holidays
12–5 pm
Entrance fees
5 €, reduced 2.50 €
Sector
History; Cultural History
Category
Museums; Castles & Palaces, Gardens & Parks
Sponsor
Stadt Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe
Founded
1916
Focus of collection
Municipal history; Everyday culture
Location
Hochtaunuskreis
Information
The Gothic House on the outskirts of Bad Homburg was built from 1823 onwards by Landgravine Elisabeth as a neo-Gothic hunting lodge and representative building for Frederick VI. It was located at the end of Tannenwaldallee and was part of the landgrave's gardens. Georg Moller was responsible for construction management. In 1860, the building was transferred to the forestry administration and served partly official and partly public purposes, even after Hesse-Homburg was transferred to Prussia. Emperor Wilhelm II considered securing monument protection when it was resold, but this did not happen. In 1929, the house was converted into a hotel with a restaurant and café and became a popular destination for day trips, even being connected to the tram between 1899 and 1923. After 1945, the condition of the building deteriorated considerably due to frequent changes of ownership. In 1968, the sale to a Frankfurt real estate speculator and the construction of two high-rise buildings immediately adjacent to it almost led to the loss of the ensemble. It was not until 1977 that the building was belatedly entered in the monument register. After a fire in 1980, the building was extensively restored and has housed the city's cultural history museum since 1985. It features permanent exhibitions on the history of the city and its landgraves, a Romanticism room, and the Hat Museum, which documents the local hat industry and the internationally renowned “Homburg” hat. Today, the Gothic House is a protected cultural monument and a central cultural and historical site in Bad Homburg.