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Richard-Wagner-Stätten Graupa – history
In Graupa, a district of Pirna, the Richard-Wagner-Stätten consist of the Lohengrinhaus and the nearby Jagdschloss Graupa, a hunting lodge. In the summer of 1846 Richard Wagner lived here and worked on his opera “Lohengrin”. The Lohengrinhaus shows recreated living rooms, and the hunting lodge a multimedia exhibition on his life and work.
Wagner and Lohengrin
Wagner had been court conductor in Dresden since 1843. In the summer of 1846 he took lodgings at a farm in Graupa, today's Lohengrinhaus – from 15 May to 20 July according to Wikipedia, while the town of Pirna speaks of three months. In the landscape between Pillnitz and Saxon Switzerland he sketched out the music for “Lohengrin”. In 1907, according to Wikipedia, the world's first Richard Wagner museum opened here.
The hunting lodge and the monument
The hunting lodge goes back to a manor; after 1755 the Wettins bought it and had a Baroque hunting lodge built, which later became the seat of the forester of the Pillnitz forest district. In the nearby Liebethaler Grund stands a Wagner monument that the town of Pirna calls the largest monument to the composer anywhere in the world. Incidentally, Wagner had already visited the Schreckenstein near Aussig in 1842 – it was there that the idea for “Tannhäuser” was born.
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