Historic center of the city of Remscheid
The historical center of the city of Remscheid , organizationally linked to the German Tool Museum , is a local house of history. It performs the tasks of the former city archive and the former local history museum (today: Haus Cleff ).
The oldest part of the historical center is the home of the tool merchant Cleff. The attractive exterior design of the representative building, built in 1778, combines stylistic features of bourgeois Rococo with the shapes and the black-white-green color palette of the Bergisch architecture.
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.
Part of the city archive was temporarily located in the historic rococo house in Cleff, which has now been relocated as the archive of the city of Remscheid to a neighboring building of a former ice skate factory. Here you can find old photos, maps and plans, old newspapers and a library, among other things. Those interested in Bergischer and Remscheid history can read and research in the archive. Some of the archive's holdings are stored in the Honsberger Strasse branch. There are mainly the administrative files of the city of Remscheid and the cities of Lennep and Lüttringhausen, which were independent until 1929 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 11 '49.9 " N , 7 ° 9' 56.7" E