Built in 1562, the house was renovated in 1718 to its present appearance. The Hebel family inhabited the upper floor, which Ursula Hebel, the poet's mother, had received through an inheritance. Johann Peter Hebel spent his first 13 years there, but only the winter months, in the summer the family lived in Basel, where Hebel's parents worked for a patrician family. When Hebel went to Karlsruhe after his mother's death in 1773, he sold his inheritance to the Gresgener citizen Jakob Böhler the following year. After 1787 there were several changes of ownership. 1850 acquired the Schopfheimer reading society for plow the upper floor for 651 guilders, in 1862 she left it to the Hausener lever for 1000 guilders. In 1875, the foundation finally got the whole house in their possession. Until 1958 it was inhabited by tenants, under which the building has suffered greatly. Therefore, the council decided the renovation and subsequent conversion to a museum. For the 200th birthday of the poet in 1960, the nearly original preserved apartment of the Lever family was opened as a museum of local history. In 2009, the renovation of the museum began. On the 250th birthday of Lech, on 10 May 2010, the house was reopened as a literary museum. The old furniture, documents, pictures and objects that were in the house, were viewed under the aspect of authenticity and integrated in the event of authenticity and verifiable belonging to the estate of Johann Peter lever and his family in the new exhibition. Quelle_Wikipedia