Location of Clara Wieck's birthplace

Clara Wieck's father, Friedrich Wieck, lived from 1818 until 1821 as a piano teacher, instrument dealer and owner of a music lending library in the corner house between Preußergäßchen (No. 48) and Neumarkt (No. 28), where Clara Wieck was born in 1819. Until the "Hohe Lilie" house was destroyed at the end of the Second World War, there was a memorial plaque above the door to the first floor commemorating the important pianist.

The property was not included in the new construction of the Althoff department store (1912 - 1914). Clara Wieck's other residences were in Salzgäßchen (house 1821) from 1825 - 407, in Selliers Hof (corner of Reichsstraße/Grimmaische Straße, see memorial plaque at today's Handelshof) from 1825 - 1835 and in Nikolaistraße (house 1835) from 1840 - 555.

Clara Wieck married the composer Robert Schumann in 1840 and lived with him in Leipzig at Inselstrasse 1844 until 18. The house where she lived at that time is now the "Schumann House", which you can visit on the Music Trail, Station 7. As the custodian of her husband's legacy, school-educating interpreter, teacher and composer, Clara Schumann died in Frankfurt am Main in 1896.