Chronological Table of the History of the Handel House

1558	First recording of the house and its owner at that time.
1595	The lawyer Johann Neigenfindt, assessor on the jury, purchased the property for 1400 guilders.
1630	The ducal chamberlain Georg Bley was owner of the building "Zum gelben Hirsch" (The Yellow Stag) with the right to sell wine.
1666	The ducal chamberlain and surgeon, Georg Handel, bought it for 1310 guilders.
1685	On 23 Februar Georg Friederich Händel was born in the House at the corner Große Nikolaistraße and Kleine Ulrichstraße "Am Schlamm" (big mud). He lived here until his departure for Hamburg in 1703.
1697	George Frideric Handel's father died and the property passed to his widow and children.
1708	The northern part of the property (later Kleine Ulrichstraße 37) was detached when Handel's Sister set up her own household there.
1730	After the death of Handel's mother his niece, Johanna Frederike Michaelsen, is one of the heirs. She presumably lived in the house from 1755 with her husband Dr Johann Ernst Flörcke.
1771	Johanna Frederike died. Her second daughter, Dorothea Luise, married the Halle alderman Friedrich August Reichhelm, who renovated the house "in order to dedicate it as a permanent monument to a famous man ...he wanted to have in it a memorial in Handel's honour, had he not been carried off by a sudden death".
1783	The property had to be publicly auctioned off.
1784	The building passed to the merchant Christian Friedrich Pohlmann.
1817	Friedrich Wilhelm Rüprecht took over the building.
1827	Rüprecht bought the neighbouring house, too, one of the reasons for later disputes over the question of the "real" Handel House.
1872	Rüprecht's son sold the house to the merchant Wilhelm Richard Fuß.
1896	The property passed to the banking house of H. F. Lehmann.
1922	The new owner of the Handel House is the merchant Heinrich Lifschütz.
1932	A certain Philipp managed a furniture shop in the building.
1937	The Handel House was taken over by the city of Halle. From then on musical instruments, pictures, scores, books and so on began to be collected for a future museum and a series "Schriftenreihe des Händelhauses" was edited.
1948	After restoration works a Handel memorial museum combined with a city music museum was opened.
1983	The Handel House came as a seperate section to the "Händel-Zentrum", founded in this year.
1984	In preparation of Handel's tercentenary in 1985 neighbouring buildings were incorporated into the museum.
1992	After the dissolution of the "Händel-Zentrum" the Händel-Haus has become the centre of the Handel renaissance in Halle again.