Museum am Dom (Würzburg)

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East facade on Kiliansplatz
View of the MAD's permanent exhibition

The Museum am Dom (MAD) is an art museum of the Diocese of Würzburg opened in March 2003 under Bishop Paul-Werner Scheele .

The works of art in the entrance hall refer to the basic human situation between fall and rise, light and dark, hope and despair, joy and sadness, heaven and earth. The permanent exhibition includes approx. 300 pictures and sculptures from the 10th to the 21st century. Modern and contemporary artists ( Ernst Barlach , Joseph Beuys , Willi Dirx , Otto Dix , Dina Draeger , Lars Käker , Käthe Kollwitz , Wolfgang Mattheuer , Werner Tübke , Andy Warhol ) are directly juxtaposed with the treatment of themes by the old masters (including Tilman Riemenschneider , Georg Anton Urlaub , Johann Peter Wagner , Johann Zick ).

The building extends over a total of four floors of the Kilian House, which was completely renovated and converted from 2001 to 2003. It is located on Kiliansplatz between Würzburg Cathedral and Neumünster in Würzburg .

The Leichhof used to be located on the square between the cathedral and Neumünster and was used as a cathedral cemetery for the dead of the cathedral parish of St. Kilian and the houses belonging to Neumünster until around the middle of the 16th century . There was also a Salhof between the cathedral and Neumünster , whose well shaft was converted into a latrine in the 13th century . Several objects were found in this rubbish pit that provide information about everyday life in the Middle Ages.

literature

  • Klaus Wittstadt: Church and State in the 20th Century. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 453–478 and 1304 f., Here: pp. 475–478: The development at the end of the 20th century - the term of office of Bishop Paul-Werner Scheele (1979– 2003). Pp. 477 and 480 f. (Plate 28).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Schneider: Folk culture and everyday life. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001–2007, Volume 1 (2001): From the beginnings to the outbreak of the Peasants' War. ISBN 3-8062-1465-4 , pp. 491-514 and 661-665, here: pp. 498 and 509-511.

Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '37 "  N , 9 ° 55' 54.1"  E