Witch Mayor's House
 Witch Mayor's House |
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| place | Lemgo |
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| opening | 1926 |
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-138714 |
The witch mayor's house in Lemgo is a former town house that is now used as a museum . The building got its name from the mayor and lawyer Hermann Cothmann , who served as mayor from 1667 to 1683, lived in this house and gained the reputation of a witch hunter during the witch trials in Lemgo .
building
According to the inscriptions on the chimney and on the facade, the witch mayor's house was built in the years 1568–1571 by the merchant Hermann Kruwel (or Crüwell ) and his wife Lisbeth Fürstenau. The execution is attributed to the Lemgo master builder Hermann Wulff . It is a typical merchant's house with a high hall in the front building, which from the beginning had a living room built-in on the right-hand side and was later made smaller by a further built-in on the left-hand side.
In the rear building there is a representative hall with a fireplace, above a basement that is only slightly deepened. Originally, the main building was adjoined by a probably also stone rear building with two further halls, of which only a gable impression and the remains of two stacked chimneys on the rear wall of the main building have survived.
In addition to its relatively well-preserved interior layout, the house is particularly significant due to the elaborate facade in the Weser Renaissance style . On the substructure of the facade there is a wide, richly windowed zone of attached porches that protrude onto the street, which is called " Utlucht ". Such Utluchten became common on stone buildings of the Renaissance and on half-timbered buildings of the 17th and 18th centuries. On the other hand, there is a bay window on the right-hand side of the facade, which, unlike the Utlucht, is not at ground level and is caught on consoles. The facade above is structured by half-columns and cornices.
In May 2004 the building was Monument of the Month in Westphalia-Lippe . It is located in Lemgoer Neustadt, Breite Straße 19.
museum
In 2007 a new permanent exhibition was opened in the witch mayor's house. The history of the house and the history of the city of Lemgo are presented there on the basis of the current scientific status. At the same time, the renovated Haus Weege was inaugurated, which is directly adjacent to the Hexenbürgermeisterhaus and now serves as the foyer of the museum. The courtyard and gardens are now also accessible to visitors.
Torture instruments from the estate of the Lemgo executioner family Clauss and Clausen, as well as replicas from the 19th and 20th centuries, which were originally intended to give the impression of a "torture cellar" but which was never housed in the house, are reminiscent of the time of extensive witch hunts in Lemgo . In addition, exemplary biographies of affected persons were processed.
A second focus in addition to the city's history are the results of building research from the last extensive renovation, which show the eventful history of the building.
Individual evidence
- ^ Gertrud Angermann: People's life in the north-east of Westphalia at the beginning of modern times. Waxman, Münster / New York 1995, ISBN 3-89325-321-1 , p. 269.
literature
- Fred Kaspar: The witch mayor's house in Lemgo as an example of bourgeois building and living between the 16th and 20th centuries. Westfalen-Verlag, Bielefeld / Dortmund / Münster 1984, ISBN 3-88918-023-X .
Web links
- Website of the Witch Mayor's House museum
- Hexenbürgermeisterhaus on lemgo.net ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
- Pictures of the witch mayor's house in the picture archive of the LWL media center for Westphalia
Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 30 ″ N , 8 ° 53 ′ 59 ″ E