The Mutter-Beethoven-Haus in Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein is one of two in Germany existing houses which are directly connected to the family of the musician Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). The richly illustrated book is a guide through the permanent exhibition of the museum and tells about the civic life in the late 18th century and the first half of the 19th century on the Middle Rhine. In numerous essays specialists of different subject aereas deal with various topics as History, Social History, Music and Literature of that time, always in connection with the person of Ludwig van Beethoven, whose mother Maria Magdalena Keverich (1746-1787) was born in the Mutter-Beethoven-Haus. So the book gives a multifaceted panorama of a time that belongs to the most important epoch of german cultural history.