Wien, Heiligenstadt, Pfarrplatz 2, Wohnung von Ludwig van Beethoven, Außenansicht - Radierung von Lila Gruner nach einer eigenen Zeichnung, Wien, um 1910

From 1802 onwards Beethoven repeatedly spent the summer months in Heiligenstadt. Both of the Beethoven houses which can be visited there today were only identified in 1889/90 by the custodian of the Heiligenstadt Beethoven Collection Josef Böck. The 68-year-old wine-grower Nikolaus Zwölfjahr had told him that "his late father had always referred to the "baker"s house" in the Herrengasse, aside from the one in Pfarrplatz, as being the one in which the musician had stayed."

Beethoven stayed at the house in Pfarrplatz from May until the end of June 1817, as several of his letters to Nannette Streicher show. He is said to have stayed in a corner room on the first floor in the left wing, from whose windows one could see the Eroica-Gasse (as it is called today) and the Danube. (S.B.)