In the year 1897
the year in which her mother died
Elisabeth Nietzsche returned home
from Paraguay
where she had been working
with her husband Bernhard Förster
to establish an Aryan
anti-Semitic German colony
known as Nueva Germania
Just outside the town of Röcken bei
Lützen
in that farming district southwest
of Leipzig
where she and her brother had been
born
Elisabeth rented a large house on a
hill
known as the Villa Silberblick
and moved her brother
with his collected manuscripts
and his diagnosis of incurable
dementia
to the residence
This became the new home
of the Nietzsche Archives
previously located
at the family home in Naumburg
and here Elisabeth received visitors
who wanted to gawk at
or pay homage to
the now-incapacitated philosopher
On August 25, 1900
shortly before his 56th birthday
Friedrich Nietzsche succumbed
to pneumonia apparently
in combination with a stroke
His body was transported to the
family gravesite
directly beside the church in Röcken
bei Lützen
where his mother and sister now also
rest
A plaque on the grave
inscribed with his name and dates
makes unequivocally clear
for all the world to see and
understand
that the philosopher Nietzsche
spokesperson for Zarathustra
is
dead
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