The Jerusalemhaus is a house museum at Schillerplatz 5 in Wetzlar, Germany. On October 30, 1772, Braunschweig legation secretary Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem shot himself in a two room apartment on the building's second floor, an event Goethe, who had known him personally, drew on when he immortalized Jerusalem as the suicidal Werther in his novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. The apartment is preserved today as a memorial with period furniture and documents, and the building also houses the Goethe-Werther-Sammlung, a specialist library that collects editions of the novel in many languages. The building is protected as a cultural monument under the Hessian Monument Protection Act. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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1. Jerusalemhaus (Wikipedia)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalemhaus, lead definition
The Jerusalemhaus is a house museum at Schillerplatz 5 in Wetzlar, Germany.
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The Jerusalemhaus is a house museum at Schillerplatz 5 in Wetzlar, Germany. On October 30, 1772, Braunschweig legation secretary Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem shot himself in a two room apartment on the building's second floor, an event Goethe, who had known him personally, drew on when he immortalized Jerusalem as the suicidal Werther in his novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. The apartment is preserved today as a memorial with period furniture and documents, and the building also houses the Goethe-Werther-Sammlung, a specialist library that collects editions of the novel in many languages. The building is protected as a cultural monument under the Hessian Monument Protection Act.
Wikipedia infobox building_type field (House)
The Jerusalemhaus is a house museum at Schillerplatz 5 in Wetzlar, Germany.
On October 30, 1772, the Braunschweig legation secretary Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem shot himself here in a two-room apartment on the second floor. Goethe, who knew him personally due to an internship they completed together at the Reichskammergericht in Wetzlar, immortalized Jerusalem as the suicidal "Werther" in The Sorrows o
Wikipedia infobox building_type field (Museum)
The Jerusalemhaus is a house museum at Schillerplatz 5 in Wetzlar, Germany.
On October 30, 1772, the Braunschweig legation secretary Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem shot himself here in a two-room apartment on the second floor. Goethe, who knew him personally due to an internship they completed together at the Reichskammergericht in Wetzlar, immortalized Jerusalem as the suicidal "Werther" in The Sorrows o
View the Source2. Jerusalemhaus (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement (EntityId 386692): Wetzlar, GermanyQuote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement (EntityId 386692): Wetzlar, Germany
Wikidata item Q1687947, property P131/P17 (location): Wetzlar, Germany
Wikidata: Jerusalemhaus
Wikidata Q1687947, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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