Friedrich Rückert Memorial (Friedrich-Rückert-Gedächtnisstätte)

He is still considered a unique linguistic genius today: the poet, translator, linguist and founder of German oriental studies Friedrich Rückert, born in Schweinfurt in 1788. In addition to his mother tongue, he is said to have mastered at least 44 other languages. In 1838, Rückert purchased an estate in what is now the district of Neuses near Coburg, which became his main residence. For the last 18 years (from 1848), he lived and worked permanently in Neuses, where the poet’s room can still be visited today on request. The idyllically situated summer house that the poet had built on the Goldberg near his estate was his favourite place. In the Rückert Park, a bust commemorates the poet who left thousands of poems and writings to posterity.