Karl Pollender City Museum

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Old office building
Warming house

The Karl Pollender City Museum in Werne is housed together with the city archives in the old office building from 1691. In addition to early history and city history, the Sim-Jü and a silk chasuble from the 13th / 14th Century especially presented.

building

In 1690 or 1691, the episcopal retirement master von Bruchhausen expanded the original building into his residence and office building. In 1800 the framework was largely plastered and the building revised in the classicism style . In the 19th century it was bought by a private person and called "Homann's House". In 1962, the secondary school teacher and home association chairman Karl Pollender set up a first, small museum on the ground floor, and in 1968 the "Westphalian room" was added. 1977-80 the building was completely renovated and from then on it was used as a city museum and historical archive. In 2003 the extension with a newly designed entrance area and the museum garden were added.

The small half-timbered houses from the 14th century around the church square were used by the farmers in the area as spiers for the neighboring market and as warming houses before and after going to church. Most of them were destroyed in the town fire in 1586, the half-timbered house No. 15 with carved leaf masks (from 1562) and the half-timbered house No. 21 between the churchyard and Roggenmarkt (built in 1447) were preserved. The latter is now considered to be one of the oldest small half-timbered houses in Westphalia. The warm houses were added to the museum in 2003.

museum

The museum shows the city's history on four floors and an area of ​​almost 1,000 m². A child-friendly permanent exhibition on prehistory is housed in the basement. Medieval Werne is presented on the ground floor and further developments up to modern times on the first floor. Topics include agriculture, a loom and a room from the imperial era. On the second floor there are lecture and media rooms in which special exhibitions, lectures and museum educational activities take place.

A showcase in the museum is dedicated to the Westphalian writer and only honorary citizen of the city, Antonie Jüngst .

The church pulpit with four panel paintings from 1890 from the Christophorus Church is set up in the entrance area. From here you can also get to the garden and the warming house.

The special exhibition on the Simon Juda Market , or Sim-Jü for short, is located in the Westphalian parlor . The market rights granted back in 1362 were an important step towards city rights for Werne.

The silk chasuble, a priest's robe from the 13th to 14th centuries, is exhibited in the specially built annex. It was found in 1995 by archaeologists of the regional association in a grave at the altar of the Christophorus Church. After a lengthy restoration, it has now been restored to such an extent that its motifs (palmettes, pine cones , lions and birds of prey) are clearly recognizable.

Constanze Döhrer has been the director of the City Museum since May 2016, succeeding Heidelore Fertig-Möller.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 39 '48.5 "  N , 7 ° 38' 3.6"  E