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Jerusalemhaus

The Jerusalemhaus is a house museum at Schillerplatz 5 in , . On October 30, 1772, the Braunschweig legation secretary Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem shot himself here in a two-room apartment on the second floor.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: house museum in Wetzlar, Germany
  • Address: Schillerplatz 5, Wetzlar, 35578
  • Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Franciscan Church and Reichskammergerichtsmuseum.

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.

Museum
Photo: Stefan Flöper, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Library
Photo: Stefan Flöper, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The was founded in 1989 and has become one of the largest public libraries specialised in Fantasy literature worldwide, it is the largest in Europe. is situated 260 metres east of Jerusalemhaus.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wetzlar and Wetzlarer Kreuz.

Photo: Krusto, CC BY 2.0 de.
is a university city of 55,000 people in . Tourists know the city for its ancient town and its medieval Catholic/Protestant shared cathedral of St.

Locality
Photo: KlausFoehl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is an Autobahn interchange in the city of in , where the highways A45 and A480 meet. This junction is a stack interchange, which is the only fully built stack interchange in Germany. is situated 5 km north of Jerusalemhaus.

Jerusalemhaus

Latitude
50.55294° or 50° 33′ 11″ north
Longitude
8.50108° or 8° 30′ 4″ east
Open location code
9F2CHG32+5C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2868235598
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Wiki­data ID
Q1687947
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In Other Languages

From Bavarian to German—“Jerusalemhaus” goes by many names.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Schillerplatz and Druckerei Winkler.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Jerusalemhaus”. Photo: Wiegels, CC BY-SA 3.0.