Greifswald is the birthplace of the romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich. Caspar David Friedrich was born as the sixth son of the soap maker and candle maker Adolf Gottlieb Friedrich on September 5, 1774 in his parents' residential and commercial building on Langen Straße. He spent a large part of his childhood there with his family before going to Copenhagen and Dresden to study art. Today the former residence houses the Caspar David Friedrich Center with an exhibition on the life and work of the great painter.
Soap factory and candle workshop
The exhibition area on the ground floor, which is also the entrance area, is dedicated to the individual stations in Friedrich's life and houses a museum shop worth seeing, which was built on the spot where the Friedrich family used to sell their soaps and candles. If you follow the stairs to the basement, visitors reach the historical vaulted cellar, in which the father's soap factory and candle workshop were located. Even today, the tallow cauldrons, ladles and soap molds, some of which have been preserved in their original state, provide an insight into the craft of the soap makers and light makers.