Graefrath Museum

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Gräfrath Monastery, which houses the Gräfrath Museum

The Gräfrath Museum is a local museum in Gräfrath , the smallest district of Solingen . It was founded in 2005 by the Heimatverein Solingen Gräfrath eV and is located in the basement of the former Gräfrath monastery , which has housed the German Blade Museum since 1991 .

The first room is accessible via the Blade Museum. It shows the historical development of Gräfrath, which began when it was first mentioned in 1135 as Villa Greverode . From 1185 onwards, the abbess Elisabeth of the Vilich monastery near Bonn founded a women's monastery which initiated further development into a place of pilgrimage . In the museum one deals in particular with the ophthalmologist Friedrich Hermann de Leuw , who was known beyond the borders of Germany in the 19th century and who ran his practice in Graefrath.

The second room is accessible from the rear of the building. It shows chronicles, pictures and souvenirs from Gräfrath clubs, as well as the model from the 1970s of a planned motorway through Gräfrath. Many of the exhibits and exhibits come from the citizens of Graefrath from donations, bequests and liquidations. For the tenth anniversary in 2015, a diorama of the Gräfrath station, which was demolished in 2011, was set up.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Günther: Jubilee year for the Gräfrath Museum. In: RP Online, January 6, 2015. Retrieved September 29, 2015.
  2. ↑ Gräfrath (Solingen) on zeitspurensuche.de , accessed on October 9, 2015
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Günther: Gräfrath Museum celebrates its anniversary. In: RP Online, October 6, 2015. Retrieved October 9, 2015.

Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 35 ″  N , 7 ° 4 ′ 21 ″  E