LWL monument preservation, landscape and building culture in Westphalia

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The LWL monument preservation, landscape and building culture in Westphalia is a cultural service of the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL) . It has existed in its current form since April 2011 and consists of the former Westphalian Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the previously independent departments for landscape and building culture . The cultural service is headed by the state curator Holger Mertens .

tasks

The LWL monument preservation, landscape and building culture in Westphalia fulfills tasks in the area of monument protection and monument preservation, landscape culture and building culture. As a monument authority , the cultural service works on behalf of the state constitution as a specialist office for monument protection and preservation according to the Monument Protection Act of North Rhine-Westphalia .

The main tasks of the cultural service include recording, researching and evaluating monuments , as well as conveying knowledge of historical monuments to the public. Experts examine buildings with the help of historical building research . Practical monument preservation employees support and advise cities, municipalities and monument owners in the preservation and use of their monuments . You will develop technical statements in the context of monument law proceedings as well as expert opinions for courts or in the context of funding procedures. Restorers accompany measures on monuments that require special expertise in restoration science. Architectural monuments and their history are documented with the help of databases and in various archives. The urban preservation of monuments takes care of the interests of the preservation of monuments as a carrier of public concerns in specialized proceedings of third parties and advises municipalities in the creation of urban development concepts as well as monument preservation plans, monument area statutes , design or conservation statutes.

The area of ​​cultural landscape development prepares cultural landscape specialist articles for all overall planning (state development planning, regional planning and land-use planning ) and the area of ​​garden culture records gardens and parks in Westphalia-Lippe that are of particular cultural-historical, garden-cultural or tourist importance and advises garden owners on maintenance, further development and tourist advertising Investments. The subject area building culture conveys building culture topics in various formats to experts and the interested public.

organization

The LWL monument preservation, landscape and building culture in Westphalia is divided into four specialist units, the administrative department for legal affairs, the department for mediation and building culture and the administration. The specialist presentations include various subject areas and are divided into the inventory and building research section, the practical monument preservation section, the restoration and documentation section and the urban planning and landscape culture section .

Provincial and State Conservators

Publications

The LWL Monument Preservation, Landscape and Building Culture in Westphalia issues a number of publications:

Events

The LWL monument preservation, landscape and building culture in Westphalia offers experts and the interested public numerous thematic events and activities in Westphalia-Lippe, which are also carried out with cooperation partners. The Westphalian Day for the Preservation of Monuments has been held every two years since 2004, and the cultural service also organizes specialist conferences, training courses, excursions and lecture series on the preservation of monuments, cultural landscape development , garden culture and building culture.

See also

literature

  • Mission statement. (pdf; 3.0 MB) Recognize - Preserve - Design. LWL monument preservation, landscape and building culture in Westphalia, March 2012, accessed on September 17, 2013 .
  • Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe / Westphalian Office for Monument Preservation / Museum for Art and Cultural History (Ed.): In the course of time. 100 years of the Westphalian Office for Monument Preservation. Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 1992.
  • Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe (LWL), press and public relations and Westphalian Office for the Preservation of Monuments (ed.): Beware of the monument. Preservation of monuments in Westphalia-Lippe. Munster 2004.
  • Holger Mertens, 125 years of preservation of monuments in Westphalia , in: Preservation of monuments in Westphalia-Lippe 2017/2, pp. 4–25.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mission statement of LWL monument preservation, landscape and building culture in Westphalia. March 2012, p. 5.
  2. ↑ Internet presence of the LWL Monument Preservation Landscape and Building Culture in Westphalia , accessed on September 4, 2013
  3. ^ Website of the LWL monument preservation, landscape and building culture in Westphalia , accessed on February 26, 2015.
  4. ^ Journal of Preservation of Monuments in Westphalia Lippe . Website of the LWL Monument Preservation, Landscape and Building Culture in Westphalia, accessed on August 29, 2013.
  5. ↑ Series of monuments and research in Westphalia . Website of the LWL Monument Preservation, Landscape and Building Culture in Westphalia, accessed on August 29, 2013.
  6. ↑ Workbooks of the LWL monument preservation, landscape and building culture in Westphalia . Website of the LWL Monument Preservation, Landscape and Building Culture in Westphalia, accessed on August 29, 2013.
  7. ↑ Publications on the sustainable development of cultural landscapes . Website of the LWL Monument Preservation, Landscape and Building Culture in Westphalia, accessed on August 29, 2013.
  8. ↑ Publications on garden culture in Westphalia-Lippe . Website of the LWL Monument Preservation, Landscape and Building Culture in Westphalia, accessed on August 29, 2013.