Helfs Hof local history museum

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Local history museum in Helfs Hof

The Helfs Hof in the Sevinghausen district of Wattenscheid is an old farm that is now used as a local museum .

The name of the farm should go back to the Hellweg . The medieval trade and military route used to lead directly past the courtyard. The farm was a so-called body profit, that is, the tenant had a hereditary right to use the farm and was the personal owner of the building. The owner, attested from the 15th century onwards, until the replacement of the feudal burdens in 1813, belonged to the pilgrim house, a poor and infirmary near the pilgrim chapel of St. Bartholomew on Hellweg. H. had to pay interest for its maintenance. Together with other farms, the farm owner also had to pay the “gallows tenth”, a levy from which, among other things, a meal for the hangman was paid for. The main house, a farmhouse from the 17th to 18th centuries in half-timbered construction, in the type of a longitudinal hall house as a four-column house , still has the original fortified threshing floor and the historic kitchen with an open fireplace. The two-part kitchen door was built in, dated 1555, by the then owner Arndt Eickenscheidt. On the upper floor was the so-called up chamber, the living room. The barrel vaulted brick vaulted cellar can also be visited. The main house is 13.6 meters wide and 28.6 meters long. A residential part was added to the south around 1900. Next to the main house is the former cowshed, a brick building from the 19th century. Two formerly existing half-timbered barns have been demolished.

The courtyard has been registered as an architectural monument under the number A 571 since 2003 in the list of monuments of the city of Bochum. It was bought in 1968 by the then still independent city of Wattenscheid and was converted into a museum on a local initiative, which was opened in 1974. The current sponsorship in cooperation has existed since 2003.

The museum houses an exhibition of rural utensils from different centuries and a collection on the history of Wattenscheid. It is operated by the city of Bochum and professionally looked after by the Wattenscheid local and civil society , which provides a voluntary museum attendant. The city of Bochum has hired two part-time workers who are responsible for supervision and operational services and pays the house costs. In 2017, 2,368 visitors were registered.

Two bells from the Evangelical Peace Church in Wattenscheid, which were in use from 1880 to 1955, are placed in front of the museum.

Not far away is the pilgrim chapel of St. Bartholomew and the Church of the Heart of Jesus .

location

  • south of downtown Wattenscheid, near Wattenscheider Hellweg
  • Address: Helfs Hof, In den Höfe 37, Bochum-Wattenscheid
  • Public transport: Bochum, Stalleickenweg stop; Bochum, Schlaraffiastr.

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Web links

Commons : Helfs Hof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 39 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 27 ″  E