House copper hammer
House Kupferhammer is today the cultural center in the core town of Warstein . The Municipal Museum has been located here since 1962, the well-known Kupferhammer Concerts have been taking place in the house for more than 50 years, and recently the Kupferhammer House has hosted regularly changing exhibitions and various lectures from different areas of knowledge.
history
The house was an industrial residence for centuries. It began with the conversion of a nail smithy, which fell into disrepair during the Thirty Years' War , into a brass hammer. Dutch merchants built their first home here opposite their workshops.
Haus Kupferhammer owes its name to Johann Theodor Möller , who had the house expanded. As a trained copper trader, he married Clara Catharina Zahn in 1730 and expanded the copper hammer she had brought into the marriage into an important company beyond the city limits. The growing size of his family with a total of 13 children from three marriages prompted Johann Theodor Möller to build the Kupferhammer house today. The representative, stately building in the baroque style corresponded to the entrepreneurial self-image of its time. In 1763 son Christian took over the management of the business. His business successes were rewarded with social recognition, including his appointment to the Hessian Kommerzienrat. From 1816, his nephew Franz Anton ran the company with only moderate success.
In 1849 Wilhelm Bergenthal acquired the factory and the residential building, which received a new portal entrance on the courtyard side and a balcony on the west side. The facility was supplemented by a farm building, a coach house and a park. Ottilie Bergenthal, the widow of August Wilhelm Bergenthal, a nephew of Wilhelm Bergenthal, bequeathed the house to the city of Warstein in 1948. In accordance with the agreement, this set up a museum there in 1962.
museum
After more than 50 years, the local history museum set up on the ground floor with a focus on rural living, the development of the local iron industry, town history as well as geology and mineralogy, the Association of Friends and Supporters of the Museum Haus Kupferhammer was formed with the aim of " To fill house Kupferhammer with life again ”. To achieve this, the rooms on the ground floor were prepared for multifunctional use, so that today there are regular changing and traveling exhibitions, art exhibitions, educational offers, lectures and presentations as well as workshops and seminars in Warstein enrich. A gem on the ground floor is the winter garden with the Gothic "Warsteiner Mother God" from the middle of the 14th century.
On the upper floor are the living quarters of the secret councilor Wilhelm Bergenthal and his wife Therese, b. Gabriel, seen in its original condition. The visitor has the opportunity to be guided through the Biedermeier salon , the office, the Florentine room, the ballroom, the living room of Ottilie Bergenthal and the rooms on the city and industrial history “by the landlady personally” via audio guide. The collection with more than 80 copper engravings by the painter Johann Elias Ridinger has been largely restored by the Association of Friends and Supporters of the Museum Haus Kupferhammer and is now presented in its own exhibitions from time to time. The “Kupferhammerkonzerte”, classical music performances by well-known artists, have been taking place in the hall since 1962.
literature
- Dietmar Lange: House Kupferhammer in Warstein ( Westfälische Kunststätten , issue 117). Münster 2015
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Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 5 ″ N , 8 ° 21 ′ 17 ″ E