In November 1767 the recently married electoral court singer and his wife Maria Magdalena, née Keverich, moved into the garden wing of the house at Bonngasse 20. On the ground floor there was a kitchen and a utility room, underneath which was a cellar. The family lived in two small rooms and one larger one on the first floor. Their son Ludwig was born in one of the tiny attic rooms in December 1770. His two godparents, who attended the baptism on 17 December 1770, were Anna Gertrudis Baum, who lived next door in Bonngasse 18, and the electoral court musical director Ludwig van Beethoven (his grandfather), who lived diagonally opposite.
As the family grew, they were forced to look for larger lodgings. They moved into an apartment in Rheingasse, later to one in Wenzelgasse, then back to the Rheingasse. Beethoven's birthplace in Bonngasse is, however, the only house to have survived.
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