Lindwurm Museum

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Lindwurm Museum, facade, 2011

The Lindwurm Museum is located in the old town of Stein am Rhein in the canton of Schaffhausen . The museum shows bourgeois living and agricultural work around 1850 on 1500 m 2. The Lindwurm Museum, along with the Chretzeturm artists' residence, is one of the cultural institutions of the "Jakob and Emma Windler Foundation".

history

Dendrochronological examinations of the ceiling layers in the basement show that the Lindwurm house dates back to 1279. Before house numbers existed, houses had names. Lindworm is an ancient name for a dragon.

In 1712 the rear building was built as a stable and farm building. The classicistic facade of the front building was built in 1819/1820.

In 1853 the Gnehm family came into possession of the Lindwurm family. Robert Gnehm (* 1852 in Stein am Rhein , † 1926 in Zurich ), who acquired the Lindwurm house around 1900, is the best-known representative of the family. He left his fortune, including Sandoz shares and the Lindwurm house, to his daughter Marie Gnehm (1883–1944), a trained doctor. The siblings Jakob and Emma Windler inherited the Lindwurm house and part of the shares from their cousin Marie Gnehm. They are the founders of the Jakob and Emma Windler Foundation based in Stein am Rhein.

After Jakob and Emma Windler inherited the house, it was rebuilt in 1947/1948 by the architect Wolfgang Müller. In the early 1990s, it was converted into a museum. Folklorist Peter Bretscher created the concept. It opened in 1993. From 2014 to 2019, the museum director was the overall director of the cultural institutions of the Jakob and Emma Windler Foundation, Elisabeth Schraut . Helga Sandl has been the director of the museum and the cultural institutions of the Jakob-und-Emma-Windler-Stiftung since October 2019.

Permanent exhibition

The cultural history museum Lindwurm presents on 1500 m 2 the way of life of the "arable bourgeoisie", bourgeois living in the front and agricultural work in the rear building with a time average around 1850. The concept pursued the goal of creating the most authentic impression possible, "as if the Residents had just left the house ”.

The basement and laundry room are on the ground floor. In the front building is the first floor with a room facing the street, a side room, a bed-sitting room and a kitchen at the rear. The 2nd floor has an ironing room and an empire salon. A middle-class family's household in the 19th century also had its own children's room with toys. A separate room is also dedicated to the Steiner painter Hermann Knecht in the front building. In the attic there is space for everything that was not needed at the moment: sleds for young and old, furniture that has gone out of fashion and wood supplies.

In the rear building there is the stable for some chickens, cows and pigs. The servants' chamber, grain chute and carriage shed are also located in the rear building.

The presentation is enlivened and questioned by special cultural and historical exhibitions and interventions by contemporary art.

Special exhibitions

  • 2018–2019 Lake Constance and the Rhine. Tourism advertising across borders 1890–1950. Accompanying publication: Elisabeth Schraut, Lake Constance and Rhine. Tourism advertising across borders, Stein am Rhein 2019. In addition, the Swiss National Museum has published the blog post about “The emblematic Lake Constance and Rhine poster” by Elisabeth Schraut on its website.
  • 2016–2017: light, air and sunbathing. Bathing culture around 1930.

Contemporary art interventions

  • 2018: Susan Hefuna . Mapping stone - an intervention in 3 acts.
  • 2017–2019 Parastou Forouhar : The grass is green, the sky is blue and she is black ... With accompanying publication.
  • 2016 Christina Kubisch, Brunnenlieder. Sound installation for an inner courtyard.

Events

Every year the museum organizes the "Lindwurm Reading Series" with renowned German-speaking authors. It takes part in the Hegau-Schaffhausen Museum Night. It has been participating in the International Museum Day since 2016. It offers tours in six languages.

Awards

In 1995 the Lindwurm Museum was awarded a special prize as “ European Museum of the Year ” for its particularly successful museum concept .

Web links

Commons : Museum Lindwurm  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Lindwurm. Retrieved September 28, 2017 .
  2. ↑ About us - Windler Foundation cultural institutions. Retrieved September 28, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Erwin Eugster, Michel Guisolan, Katja Hürlimann, Adrian Knoepfli, Dieter Füllemann: Stein am Rhein. Story of a small town . Ed .: City Councilor Stein am Rhein. Stamm + co, graphic company, Schleitheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-9523132-1-3 , p. 28 .
  4. ^ The house - Museum Lindwurm. Retrieved September 28, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Special exhibition - Museum Lindwurm. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
  6. ↑ ibl and partner ag | www.ibl.ch: The emblematic Lake Constance and Rhine poster. In: Blog on Swiss History - Swiss National Museum. April 19, 2019, accessed on May 13, 2019 (German).
  7. ↑ Light, air and sunbathing. Bathing culture around 1930 in Switzerland and at Lake Constance - Lindwurm Museum. Retrieved May 30, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Detail - Lindwurm Museum. Retrieved May 30, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Elisabeth Schraut: Parastou Forouhar - "The grass is green, the sky is blue, and it is black ..." Stein am Rhein, ISBN 978-3-03306379-2 .
  10. ↑ Lindwurm reading series. Retrieved September 28, 2017 .
  11. ^ Association of Museums in Switzerland VMS, ICOM Switzerland - International Council of Museums: Museum Lindwurm. Retrieved September 28, 2017 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 39 '38.1 "  N , 8 ° 51' 30.2"  E ; CH1903:  706648  /  279 848