Jerusalemhaus
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jerusalemhaus-192-10539346
title:
Jerusalemhaus
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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 of Young Werther (1774). The apartment is today a memorial equipped with historical furniture and doc
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wiki
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House museum in Wetzler, Germany
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalemhaus
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2023-06-30T17:51:35Z
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