Mendelssohn in vaccation - Bad Soden and Kronstadt

In the years 1844 and 1845 Mendelssohn spent the summer in Bad Soden and Kronberg,  nearby little towns of Frankfurt at the foot of the Taunus hills.
Here he composed one of greatest works - the Violin Concerto in e minor and started composing the Elias oratorio. Eventhough I live only  40 kilometers away from it I was not aware of this until now. Here I present some pictures which I took there - the house where he was living and the beautiful area between Bad Soden and Kronstadt where he made extensive walks. In one letter he wrote how he enjoyed it there to hike or sit under apple trees and draw paintings with his pencil
(see this beautiful drawing of a path with trees close to Kronstadt)

   
    

    

    









painting of Kronstadt in the time of Mendelssohn  of an unknown painter