House to the Dolder

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living room

The Haus zum Dolder is a museum dedicated to the history and culture of the Michelsamt . Visits are only possible in guided tours and after registration.

The Haus zum Dolder in the middle of Beromünster was a doctor's house for more than 100 years. Three generations of country doctors - Josef Dolder, Edmund Müller-Dolder with his wife Hedwig and their son Edmund Müller jun. - have built up a private collection during this time. After the death of the last doctor in 1976, the collection went to the “Dr. Edmund Müller ”on.

The museum is located in the former home of the doctor's family. When you visit the stately house, which has largely been preserved in its original state, you walk through the living and practice rooms of the founder and his family and get an insight into the life and work of a country doctor and art collector.

collection

The focus of the collection is on artistic production in the vicinity of the Beromünster canon monastery in the late baroque period. As a supplement to the monastery treasury , it documents the secular culture of the monastery. Another area of ​​the collection shows the professional interest of the collector family in the history of medicine, folk medicine and popular piety.

The collection areas Hinterglas and Flühli-Glas are of particular importance throughout Switzerland . Further focal points are:

Consultation room of the doctor's office
  • Baroque handicrafts from the region around Beromünster: furniture, faience , pewter, goldsmithing, portraits, costume jewelry
  • Art and cultural assets from the Lucerne / Central Switzerland area : sacred sculptures, prints (traditional costumes, local views, free groups and special association )
  • religious folk art and amulets
  • Medical history: Paracelsica , apothecary vessels, old medical instruments
  • bourgeois living culture with a historic doctor's office

Every year a part of the collection is scientifically processed. The research results and typical objects from this part of the collection are presented to the public in a special exhibition in the Dolderkeller and in an accompanying publication.

Library

Paracelsus: Prognostication on xxiiii jar in the future, 1536

The Dolderhaus library contains around 5000 works from the main areas of Helvetica and medical history. The medical history library contains an important collection of Paracelsica and medical guides from the 16th to 18th centuries. Century. The proportion of old and rare printed matter is high. Among them are some incunabula , two of them from Helias Helye's office in Beromünster.

Documenting the rich local history was a particular concern of the collector family. The writings on Beromünster and the Canton of Lucerne, resp. by Beromünster and Lucerne authors occupy a considerable place. Represented are u. a. the works of scholars from Beromünster known throughout Switzerland, the philosopher and politician Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler (1780–1866), the linguist Renward Brandstetter (1860–1942) or the historian Josef Eutych Kopp (1793–1866).

The library in the Haus zum Dolder has been included in the handbook of historical book collections in Switzerland (HHCH).

Dolder cellar

Dolder cellar

From its construction in 1764 until 1866, a pint tavern was run in the Haus zum Dolder. The large wine barrels were stored in the vaulted cellar on the ground floor. This cellar was expanded into a cultural space in 1998, where, among other things, the museum's annual special exhibition is shown.

literature

  • A country doctor's passion. Insight into the Dr. med. and Dr. hc Edmund Müller, Beromünster (1898–1976). Beromünster 1997.
  • Publication series "Treasures from the Dolderhaus in Beromünster". Beromünster 1999ff. (So ​​far twelve issues)

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Coordinates: 47 ° 12 '22.4 "  N , 8 ° 11' 30.8"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and fifty-seven thousand and sixty-nine  /  228638