The House of Carl and Gerhart Hauptmann — a museum in Szklarska Poręba

The House of Carl and Gerhart Hauptmann is a listed villa from the end of the 19th century on ul. 11 Listopada, home to the playwright Carl Hauptmann, brother of the Nobel laureate Gerhart Hauptmann. Since 1994 it has housed a branch of the Karkonosze Museum with a permanent exhibition on both writers and on the famous artists' colony that gathered painters and writers in Szklarska Poręba around the turn of the 20th century. The museum shows memorabilia, works of art and the history of the town's artistic tradition. It is one of the most important cultural attractions in the region.

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Other sights in Szklarska Poręba

Straight-line distances from „The House of Carl and Gerhart Hauptmann" — calculated from real coordinates. By road it is often further.

The Kamieńczyk waterfallThe highest waterfall in the Polish Karkonosze — the water drops 27 m in three stages into

~2,2 km as the crow flies

The Szklarka waterfallThe second highest waterfall in the Polish Karkonosze (13.3 m), in the picturesque Szklark

~2,3 km as the crow flies

ChybotekA distinctive rock formation whose great granite block can be set rocking despite weighing

~2,6 km as the crow flies

Death BendA hairpin bend and viewpoint on the Sudeten Road (775 m a.s.l.) with a platform and a pano

~3,0 km as the crow flies

Hala SzrenickaA broad meadow at about 1,200 m a.s.l. with an old PTTK mountain hut, an important trail j

~3,6 km as the crow flies

SzrenicaA 1,362 m summit above Szklarska Poręba, with a year-round cable car, a mountain hut and t

~4,0 km as the crow flies

The Jakuszyce ClearingPoland's largest cross-country skiing centre at Jakuszyce (about 100 km of trails), h

~7,9 km as the crow flies

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