Jacob Böhme House, Zgorzelec (PL)

The former home of Jacob Böhme displays a small exhibition on his professional and intellectual works and also houses the tourist information of the city of Zgorzelec. 

Get to know one of the most important theologians of the Reformation era. Böhme bought the house on 21 August 1599. After considerable damage, the house, which is now in Zgorzelec, was rebuilt in 1870- 1871. The famous shoemaker and theosophist Jacob Böhme lived in this house for eleven years (1599-1610), in which today a small permanent exhibition recalls his life and work.

A second house on Plac Pocztowy (Post Square in Zgorzelec), also located on the east bank of the Neisse River, was acquired by Jacob Böhme on 22 June 1610. However, it had to make way for the construction of the new Old Town Bridge in 1905.