Bonn, Rheingasse, Wohnung der Familie Beethoven - Aquatinta von Conrad Caspar Rordorf nach einer eigenen Zeichnung, 1845

Up to the middle of the twentieth century there was a second "Beethoven-Haus" in Bonn, which was for a time much more famous than the one in Bonngasse. It was the Fischer's house, a baker's family, in the Rheingasse (previously Rheinstraße). Ludwig van Beethoven's family lived here for about ten years, when Beethoven was between the ages of 6 and 15. In the nineteenth century it was for a short time wrongly supposed that Beethoven had been born here, but his parents only moved to the Rheingasse in February 1777.

The building became particularly famous on account of Gottfried Fischer's (1780-1864) reminiscences, which are today preserved in the Beethoven-Haus. In different manuscripts he records the memories of neighbours and acquaintances of the Beethoven family, but in particular those of his sister Caecilie (1762-1845), who was eight years older than Ludwig van Beethoven. She recalls many details surrounding the time when the baker's children were friends with Ludwig van Beethoven and his brothers.(S.B.)