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Königstraße is Stuttgart's 1.2 kilometre shopping mile, but at number 29, where a shop front stands today, the duke's main guard house once held a prisoner who would become Germany's greatest dramatist. In January 1782 the regimental doctor Friedrich Schiller, aged 22, slipped away without leave to see the premiere of his play The Robbers in Mannheim. When he went a second time, Duke Carl Eugen ordered him to hand over his sword and spend fourteen days under arrest in the Hauptwache. A ban on writing anything but medicine and the threat of fortress imprisonment followed. On the night of 22 September 1782, while the court feted the Russian Grand Duke Paul, Schiller and his friend Andreas Streicher rolled out through the dark Esslinger Tor as 'Doctor Ritter' and 'Doctor Wolf', with 23 and 28 guilders in their pockets. As a serving army doctor, he was now a deserter. Beside the site, a small square has carried the name of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer since 1998, a quiet link back to the show trial on the Marktplatz and forward to the foundation born from the Geißstraße fire.
Fatti principali
- 14 days — Schiller's arrest in the Hauptwache, the main guard house that stood where Königstraße 29 is today, after his second unauthorised trip to Mannheim.
- 23 guilders — All the cash Schiller carried when he fled Stuttgart on the night of 22 September 1782; his friend Andreas Streicher had 28.
- 1998 year — The small square beside the old guard house site was named after Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, on the initiative of the Stiftung Geißstraße.