This article accompanies the fable
The Woman in the Bower


Hölderlin's tower

The great German poet Friedrich Hölderlin was a fragile soul. In 1807 when he was 37 he retreated into a private tower overlooking the Neckar River in Tübingen (SW Germany), and stayed there until his death in 1843. The tower is the yellow house on the far left of the picture below.