Cleff House
The house Cleff in Remscheid - Hasten is a mansion from the Rococo . The Hilger brothers (merchants) had it built in the same style in 1778/79. From 1811 to 1814 it served as the home of the factory owner and mayor Georg Heinrich Sonntag and as Remscheid's town hall.
The two-storey half - timbered building with a mansard roof is an important example of the Bergisch Rococo . Today it belongs to the historical center of the city of Remscheid and houses the "Museum Haus Cleff".
description
The outer
The framework is filled with clay and stakes . It rests on a basement made of natural stone, which, due to its hillside location, increases the portals by about half a storey height . At the rear, the ground floor runs out to floor level except for two steps.
The building is clearly structured symmetrically. Both of its portals can be reached via two natural stone stairs that run across the entrance. The half-timbering is covered with larch boards on the outside and slated like the mansard roof. All facade ornaments including windows and doors are made of wood. This is mainly oak, in some places larch wood.
The ground floor has six windows on the front and three on the right side of the house. On the first floor there are eight windows on the front and three on the right side of the house.
Above the first floor there is the wide cornice . The second floor is a mansard floor in the roof. On the front are alternately three small gabled roof dormers and two large gable dormers. On the right side there are two small gable dormers on the outside and a large gable dormer in the middle, above the mansard storey on the front two and on the right side a small gable dormer.
inside rooms
Inside there are different views of the upper-class Bergisch living culture, apparently just abandoned by the residents, with a fully equipped Bergisch kitchen from around 1800, a tin cabinet and an extensive collection of paintings and other works by Johann Peter Hasenclever ( Düsseldorfer Malerschule , 1810-1853) .
Another important focus is the exhibition unit with extensive information on the life and work of the trend-setting designer of pictorial symbols and socially critical graphic designer Gerd Arntz (1900–1988), which also shows many of his most important works in the original.
In the historic rococo house in Cleff, parts of the archive of the city of Remscheid were housed for a while, which included old photos, maps and plans, old newspapers and a library. In the meantime, the archive has been moved to a nearby building on Hastener Straße, where the archived administrative files of the city of Remscheid and the cities of Lennep and Lüttringhausen , which were independent until 1929 , are also kept.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ haus-cleff.de: History
- ^ Hans Jürgen Roth: History of our city, Remscheid with Lennep and Lüttringhausen. RGA-Buchverlag, Remscheid, 2009, ISBN 978-3-940491-01-5 , p. 107.
Coordinates: 51 ° 11 '49.9 " N , 7 ° 9' 56.7" E