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At "Clouth Kreuz on heathland in Rheinbreitbach/West-Germany
Foto: Dankward Heinrich

Historian MACCO draft about Jodocus Clouth and Progeny (andere siehe Genealogie)

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1785 dates the death certificate for Joh. Jodocus Klouth in Rheinbreitbach, Klouth with "K" although all letters of this time spell the name with "C"

Rheinbreitbacher Hof / Clouthscher Hof - " The hospitable house "and its guests“

The Rheinbreitbacher Hof 1890color lithograph. The Clouthsche Hof, later Rheinbreitbacher Hof, is probably the oldest (around 1518, in the oldest parts around 1348?) and even today still visible former inn in Rheinbreitbach - and also because of its visitors also the most famous. It was used at least since the beginning of the nineteenth century as an inn and existed until 1976. It had a large hall, where Carnival was still celebrated in the 1970s and a large shaded garden and a bowling alley. Today, the farm serves residential and business purposes.

Clouthscher Hof and Garden northwest side, before 1900
Quelle: Heimatmuseum Rheinbreitbach

On 27 December 1903 Paula Josephine Hewig Wenslawiak was born in the Rheinbreitbacher Hof. In 1909, six years later, she painted Heinrich Reifferscheid in oil on wood.Their parents, Julian Nicolaus Conrad Wenslawiak from Danzig and Hedwig Catharina Friessen from Rheinbreitbach, distrusted by Pastor Katterbach, operated the Clouths' court after the Clouths and Wilhelm Friessem and before the Fritz Weyerstraß family, ie between 1900 and 1915.Heinrich Reifferscheid pointed out that the girl was from the café where Karl Simrock and the brothers Grimm (Authors of the german fairy tale books) met. At the time there was the Café Latz in the main street. The Latz family had called a girl, Nettchen. That is why the portrait is also known as "Nettchenlatz".

The war and post-war years have left their mark. The young trees are no longer there. From the wall of the enclosure, only the left gate post remains alone. For this a hedge was planted. The framework of the gable was plastered.

Wilhelm II. im Couleur des Corps Borussia Bonn
Ölgemälde von Ludwig Noster (1859-1910) aus dem Jahre 1897

Wilhelm II. in Couleur of Corps Borussia Bonn in front of Siebengebirge (former vulcan area Rheinland)
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Karl Simrock und Ferdinand Freiligrath - Zwischen Unkel und Menzenberg 1839-1841

Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810-1876)

Summary of Hermann Ottendorf, 1911:
"Frequently the friends met at this time, either in Rolandseck, where lunch was already at eleven o'clock, so that Simrock could be at home before nightfall, or Simrock invited the friend with the painter Schlickum from Menzenberg to Honnef for dinner , To which one or other of his friends joined, such as the grandson of Goethe, who had been cut off from the eyes of the old gentleman.

Even the old Clouth house in Rheinbreitbach was often the meeting place for such gatherings, and was baptized by Simrock "To the Irritable", since one of the daughters of the house had led the friends into the upper storey, and with the perfectly serious words: Is not that one Irritable area? The magnificent view of the Siebengebirge and the Rhine. At times Simrock also appeared in Unkel, and there, on the way back to Bonn, was a "night of the Strolchenfelser," a friend's journey with wine and song, with cheerful and deepest conversations. Freiligrath also made a few steps to the Menzenberg, where Simrock, as master of his vineyard, combined his spiritual work with the care of the house and the court with great pleasure and profound joy. "

[The irritable was Miss Wilhelmine Clouth (1821-1897), who later took over the management of the inn from her parents.]Spring 1853 - Karl Simrock recommends the Grimms RheinbreitbachOn May 31, 1853 Karl Simrock wrote to Herman Grimm, the eldest son of Wilhelm and Dorothea Grimm (1795-1867). In this letter, we will consider where the Grimms are to relate to summer quarters. Godesberg, Königswinter, Honnef are described with all the advantages and disadvantages of the location and the district, but Rheinbreitbach is recommended as a convenient location:

"At Alt-Tillmann in the Gasthaus Zum Siebengebirge [Honnef, Hauptstraße 42] one finds cheap and good food, Logis, of course, no longer ... But now let me continue for half an hour until Rheinbreitbach, where Rudolf himself I remember, of course, the first house: at Clouth, or at the irritable point, but I do not quite mind the suggestion that this place should be proposed because of the proximity of Menzenberg, but Honnef is scarcely further to us, and our predilection for Breitbach is based on privileges, which would also recognize yours, it is much more secret and dull, the idyll is not disturbed by fine staff, no toilet is necessary, Gustelchen runs in the morning skirt on the paddock or on the horn and beckons the mother, who looks out to sleep, and what a focal point is Breitbach, how close to Rolandseck, near Honnef, and Unkel, [...] we would be very much interested, Si Nowhere else than in the case of Clouths in Breitbach, to be accustomed to the irritable [...] and the irritable and their mother must be told that they are not living in the inn, but as if they were at home would."

Ms Gertrud Ottendorf reports how the Grimms went to the Clouthschen Hof:

On the plateau of the Zickelburg stood a half-timbered house, which belonged to the host Wilhelm Clouth. He sold it to the daughter of Wilhelm Grimm, Auguste Grimm. She never moved the house, because before it was habitually made it was destroyed by fire. That is why Auguste Grimm lived in the summer at the inn of the siblings Clouth, whose entrance was from Rheinbreitbach. There we visited the Aunt Gustel - only half an hour from the house "Parzival" to the aunt. We called the Cloudian Inn "To the Irritable", because the Caroline Clouth in this way praised: "Eg, my dear gentlemen, what do you say to something beautiful" she said the beautiful view of the Siebengebirge. "Is not that an irritable area?"

In the inn, Wilhelm used to dine with his guests at the head of the table, while the two dachshunds, Tell and Waldau, were allowed to sit on his knees and eat small treats. Frl Min'chen Clouth was in the kitchen. She was already quite stooped; On her head she wore a white bonnet that framed her whole face. Helpful was Johanna, her niece; They were always seen with cheeks reddened by the fire. She prepared the guests of the house delicious and plentiful meals. Here, too, the gray-haired Fritz, who himself opened the door from the yard, came to receive his piece of sugar.
A true paradise for children was the garden of Uncle Clouth. He was the gardener of the house from whom we were given plenty of fruit.
Behind the inn was a faintly rippling fountain surrounded by a thousand colorful flowers. There was a small aviary, populated by dwarf chickens and chickens, and next to her the enclosure of a little fox. The best of all was the pergola leading round, thickly covered with the most beautiful flowers and grapes.

Rheinbreitbacher Hof 1903 Garden

A sensation - how modest we were then - was a telescope with which we could observe the guests on the Drachenfels.On the other side of the street stood the house, which Uncle Karl inhabited, proudly called "Villa Karoline". The garden smelled of flowers and wonderful fruits. Then we were able to have a heartbreak. Uncle Karl Clouth watched us, with a pleasant smile behind his white beard and bushy white brows and the still funny eyes under his velvet cap. From him we heard the Schlagerliedchen: "Fruits at which the wasps gnaw ..."In this rural area the Grimms felt at home. Hermann Grimm, the famous art historian and professor at the University of Berlin, lived on the main street of the village in a house with two corner towers, which still stands today

Quelle: Gertrud Ottendorf, Heimatkalender des Kreises Neuwied, 1957

(Unfortunately, the house is no longer in use today (2012), the former house of Hubertus, also known as the house with the two towers, Hauptstraße 45. It belonged to the outstanding buildings of Rheinbreitbach, which shaped the village image In the second half of the twentieth century, was sacrificed to the contemporary Zeitgeist and Mammon, and today the Volksbank Rheinbreitbach stands in its stead.

In the autumn of 1853 Wilhelm Grimm and his wife Dorothea, at the invitation of Karl Simrock, lived for a few weeks in the Rheinbreitbach, not far from the Simrock family estate of Menzenberg. Jakob Grimm, who was working in Berlin, wrote to his sister-in-law on 13 September 1853: "Dear village, I am glad that you are recovering more and more, and the splendid autumn weather today and yesterday, where you can go for leisurely walks. The views of the Rhine are a different thing to your Freienwalde, Harzburg and Friedrichsrode. "

In the words of Jakob Grimm, something of the enthusiasm which had sparked the Rhine experience many years before in his heart. "The Rhine is something wonderful, which can not be described, but is so entirely a part of the German nature that every heart beats its heart when it sees it for the first time Then descends on its emerald water. "

On September 19, 1853, Dorothea Grimm, on her part, faithfully reported to his brother-in-law Jacob the Ferientage on the banks of the Rhine. It mentions Remagen and the Apollinaric Church. "This morning at nine o'clock," writes Dorothea Grimm, "we went here with Simrocks, Professor Worner and his wife, and a Catholic clergyman, a very pleasant man, to Unkel, took a boat there and drove to Remagen The very beautiful church, walked about a little further, ate something brought along, and drove with the brook to Rheinbreitbach, where we had no more quarter of an hour to go, and at half-past eight we were here again: the Rhine was so beautiful and splendid, The sun was almost too hot, the view on the mountain, where the church stands, is indescribably beautiful. "Wilhelm Grimm also mentions this excursion in a letter to the brother: "Yesterday we were at the most glorious weather at Remagen and on the Apollinarisberg. At 9 o'clock we went out with a boat and were back at 3 o'clock. The good Mrs. Simrock was in a thousand fears, when the bosom swayed a little".

The old weather flag of the Clouth'sche Hof
Source: donated to the Heimatmuseum Rheinbreitbach by Theo Lindener, photo: Jürgen Fuchs

October 20: Today, here, vintage. In the morning because of the unfavorable weather did not go out. To the table Dr. Menz and wife from Bonn. Walk through the vineyards. The yellow leaves and the dark almost black grapes in between. Dortchen and Frau Schäfer went to Clouth's "Weinland am Rhein". We went into the vineyard in Clouth's house where the grapes were weighed and then pounded. We were also weighing, I was 149 pounds heavier, Dortchen 110 and Gustchen 129.

Quelle: Bernhard Lauer: Wilhelm Grimms Rheinreise im Sommer 1853, Rheinische Hefte für Kulturgeschichte, 1. Heft, Kassel und Bonn, 2004, 40

"At the end of April we received a barrel of red wine from Breitbach just as much as the Moselle wine, it was very warm at the time, maybe I did not leave it long enough, he Had not tasted very light, but after about sixteen, the Doctor forbade Wilhelm to drink wine; he was only allowed to drink Bordeau because of his stomach, so he stayed lying when we went to Kösen, we tried him, He did not taste good-he is not bitter, but has a bite like beer, the red has sat down on the bottle and the wine looks bright-I think we must bathe in it. "In the year 1855, the letter also mentions wine. He was so good that he wanted to order it.

Quelle: Franz-Josef Federhen: Gebrüder-Grimm-Schule zur Eröffnung, Hrsg. Ortsgemeinde Rheinbreitbach, 2000

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