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Along with the adjacent buildings and the so-called Kisseleff villas, the later “Maison Mank” was one of the first to be built on the new Kissleffstraße Road (Coghlan plan). When the Landgrave's building inspector Jakob Westerfeld sold it to Martin Fischer in 1845, the two-story residence had already been built. One of the first guests in the same year that the guesthouse was bought by August Zahn was the Russian writer Nikolai W. Gogol, who visited various doctors in Homburg, Karlsbad, Berlin, Dresden, and Gräfenberg in the summer of 1845 in the hopes of finding relief from his severe psychological crisis. After the death of August Zahn, his widow Louise took over the guesthouse; in the summer of 1862, she took in the family of engineer Thomas Stevenson, including the 11-year-old Robert Louis. In her diary, the writer's mother described their stay in such detail that she mentioned details such as the clinking of the coins that could be heard in the park in front of the casino.

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1844

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