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[[File:Goethehaus-ffm011.jpg|thumb|upright|left|[[Goethe House|Goethe's birthplace]] in Frankfurt (Großer Hirschgraben)]]
Goethe's grandfather, {{ill|Friedrich Georg Goethe|de|Friedrich Georg Göthe}} (1657–1730) moved from Thuringia in 1687 and changed the spelling of his surname (from Göthe to Goethe). In Frankfurt, he first worked as a tailor, then opened a tavern. His son and grandchildren subsequently lived on the fortune he earned. Friedrich Georg Goethe was married twice, his first marriage was to Anna Elisabeth Lutz (1667–1700), the daughter of a burgher, with whom he had five children, including Hermann Jacob Goethe (1697–1761), after the death of his first wife in 1705 he married Cornelia Schellhorn, née Walter (1668–1754), widow of the innkeeper Johannes Schellhorn (died 1704), with whom he had four more children, including Johann Caspar Goethe, father of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Goethe's father, [[Johann Caspar Goethe]] (1710–1782), lived with his family in a large house (today the [[Goethe House]]) in [[Frankfurt]], then a [[free imperial city]] of the [[Holy Roman Empire]]. Though he had studied [[Jurisprudence|law]] in Leipzig and had been appointed Imperial Councillor, Johann Caspar Goethe was not involved in the city's official affairs.<ref name=Grimm36>[[Herman Grimm]]: ''Goethe. Vorlesungen gehalten an der Königlichen Universität zu Berlin.'' Vol. 1. J.G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung Nachfolger, Stuttgart / Berlin 1923, p. 36</ref> Johann Caspar married Goethe's mother, [[Catharina Elisabeth Goethe|Catharina Elisabeth Textor]], in Frankfurt on 20 August 1748, when he was 38 and she was 17.<ref>Catharina was the daughter of {{ill|Johann Wolfgang Textor|de}} (1693–1771), sheriff (''[[Schultheiß]]'') of Frankfurt, and of Anna Margaretha Lindheimer (1711–1783).</ref> All their children, with the exception of Johann Wolfgang and his sister Cornelia Friederica Christiana (born in 1750), died at an early age.
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