South Sauerland Museum

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The Südsauerlandmuseum is a museum in Attendorn , North Rhine-Westphalia , that deals with art and cultural history in the Olpe district . When it was founded in 1898, it was the first museum in the Olpe district and is now one of the oldest in Westphalia. It is housed in the old town hall in Attendorn's old town. The museum director is Monika Löcken.

history

The origin of the South Sauerland Museum lies in the collection activities of today's Association for Local and Local History Attendorn. After the museum was founded in 1898, finds from cave research and archeology, folklore and professional exhibits as well as church art were exhibited. In 1909 the collection moved to the old town hall.

Most of the collection was lost or destroyed during the Second World War. Nevertheless, representatives of the Heimatverein planned to rebuild the museum from the 1950s onwards. After extensive renovations, the entire old town hall has been available for exhibitions since 1967.

The museum was rebuilt between 2006 and 2008 and reopened on June 22, 2008. This was accompanied by a new concept for the exhibition.

exhibition

The permanent exhibition on the culture and history of the region is presented on eleven themed islands:

  • Market shouts about the town's history and customs in Attendorn
  • Treasurer the development of the collection and the museum
  • Fighting spirit about the history of the Duchy of Westphalia with an extensive collection of historical maps
  • Blue blood about nobility and hunting in the area of ​​today's Olpe district, among other things with a particularly extensive and in pristine condition preserved hunting wallpaper from the factory in Rixheim
  • Bed stories about rural life and love using the example of Gut Vasbach in Hundemtal , whose library of more than 170 volumes from the years 1540 to 1855 with legal literature, religious edification literature and works from antiquity is kept in the museum
  • Guardian spirits over popular piety in the southern Sauerland
  • Export hit about the trade relations of today's Hanseatic city of Attendorn
  • Abbot mark about monastic life in the area of ​​today's Olpe district
  • Confessional secret about church art
  • Contaminated sites about prehistory and geology, especially the formation of stalactite caves in the region such as the Atta cave
  • Cult figures with the Westphalian tin figure cabinet, which was brought together by the pastor Adrian Wilfried Müller from Neu-Listernohl and had been shown in a tin figure museum in the rectory from 1977 until the cabinet was transferred to the South Sauerland Museum in 1984

In addition, there are regularly changing special exhibitions in the South Sauerland Museum.

Location

The old town hall of Attendorn, in which the Südsauerlandmuseum has been located since 1909, is located together with the parish church of St. Johannes in the center of the town, on the eaves on the south side of the market square. The ground floor was designed as an open department store, the upper floor was a hall for court, council or festive events. The facade of the building is structured on the market side and on the gable side by ogival arcades. Both gables are designed as representative stepped gables. Since the central gable arcade was emphasized, it can be assumed that the main entrance of the building, which was built around 1350, was originally located here.

Disfigured by numerous city fires, the old town hall, now also the seat of the local court , differed from the surrounding town houses in the 19th century only in terms of its location and size. In the first half of the 20th century there was also talk of demolishing the building. It was only with the decision to completely renovate the building that the splendid building program in 1967 could be exposed again.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The history of the museum. October 15, 2013, accessed on May 28, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ The museum team. May 12, 2016, accessed on May 28, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ a b c Treasurer. December 19, 2011, accessed on May 28, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ News, June 22, 2008 ( Memento from December 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ permanent exhibition. February 8, 2012, accessed on May 28, 2020 (German).
  6. ↑ a b Altes Rathaus zu Attendorn. December 19, 2011, accessed on May 28, 2020 (German).

literature

  • Andrea Arens: The collections of the Südsauerlandmuseum Attendorn. Deutscher Kunstverlag 2008. ISBN 978-3-422-02152-5

Web links

Commons : Südsauerlandmuseum  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 33.2 ″  N , 7 ° 54 ′ 13.1 ″  E