In August 2008, after visiting the childhood home of the Brothers Grimm, the Museum Steinau, and the Castle Museum, I was on my way out of Steinau on the bicycle route R3 when I came across this “Private Museum” at Brüder-Grimm-Straße 31. This is the house where Manfred Zimmer was Read More …
The regional bicycle route R3 now leads across the Kinzig Valley Dam and then turns right to follow along the reservoir, which is just downstream from Steinau. The dam was built between 1976 and 1982 for three purposes: protection from flooding, serving as a source of water during droughts and Read More …
This castle, in the middle of Steinau near the town hall and the marionette theater, was built in the years 1528 to 1560 as the country home of the Count of Hanau, who was the ruler of this area at the time. The castle is surrounded by a dry moat. Read More …
For sixty-two years, from 1955 to 2017, one of the unique attractions of Steinau was the Holzköppe marionette theater, which performed in the Marstall, a historical building which had originally served as the horse stables for the nearby Steinau Castle. The word Holzköppe means ‘wooden heads’ in the local dialect, Read More …
The Museum Steinau is in the barn that belonged to the house where the Grimm family used to live, but it is not about the Grimm brothers particularly — there is a separate museum for them on the other side of the courtyard. This museum is about other aspects of Read More …
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and his brothers Wilhelm (1786-1859) and Ludwig (1790-1863) lived in Steinau — on what is now called the Brüder-Grimm-Straße (Brothers Grimm Street) — for five years of their childhood, from 1791 to 1796. In their memoirs, both Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm later described their five years in Read More …