Still under the impression of the devastating town fire in 1692, which had destroyed all of Calw's wooden buildings, the partner of the Zeughandlungscompagnie Johannes Schill began building the stone house with fireproof stone vaults in 1694.
with fireproof stone vaults. Because his business trips took him to Bolzano, among other places, he had developed a fondness for the South Tyrolean architectural style over time. He had his house built in this style.
Wine bridge
The Weinsteg footbridge takes you back to the left side of the Nagold. The name of the footbridge goes back to the transport of wine between the wine cellars on the right side of the Nagold and the wine shops and inns on the other side of the river. The path from the Weinsteg to Ledergasse leads past a number of flood markings, which clearly show the full extent of the floods that used to recur regularly. After a devastating flood held Calw in suspense for days in 1947, the Nagold was regulated from 1948 in the hope of controlling the water. But even today, the danger of the Nagold bursting its banks has not been banished for good.
Significance for the Literary Walk:
Built in 1694 for Johannes Schill, a partner in the Calw "Zeughandlungscompagnie", in the South Tyrolean architectural style, which Schill had come to know and appreciate on business trips to Bolzano, when Hesse's uncle Friedrich Gundert married Emma Heermann, the last heiress to Schill's house, in 1873, one of the oldest and most beautiful houses in the city became a house of music thanks to him, who was managing director of the Calw publishing association and a great admirer of Johann Sebastian Bach as well as director of the Calw church choral society. In the story "Schön ist die Jugend", Hesse has the first-person narrator pay a visit to this house.
