Municipal Museum Am Rykenberg - Wendelin-Leidinger House
The Municipal Museum Am Rykenberg - Wendelin-Leidinger-Haus is the local history museum of the city of Werl .
The museum is located in the Rykenberg house , near the St. Walburga parish church on Rykenberg. The medieval stone building with half-timbered parts is a Burgmann's house , the oldest parts of which date from the 14th century. És is the original home of the Burgmann family from the Rykenberge . Subsequently, various Werl family heirs to the family , including Katharina Zelion-Brandis and Kasper Mellin, lived and owned the house. The Zelion-Brandis family lived in the property from 1624 to the middle of the 18th century. The von Lilien family owned it from 1756 to 1914, after which the town of Werl bought it. The building is belowMonument protection .
Structure of the exhibition
The exhibition is divided into various thematic areas, in which the history of the city of Werl is presented from a museum perspective.
ground floor
- An extensive collection of paintings by Heinrich von Rustige is shown here. In Volume 55, Die Weltkunst describes the picture Two Italians as a discovery of the exhibition
- Picture gallery Subject: Erbsälzer
- Werl from the end of the Middle Ages to the end of the Duchy of Westphalia
- Geology and Early Settlement
- The Counts of Werl
- Werl as a medieval city
- Historical city model
- Home culture of the arable citizens
- Lapidary
First floor
- Erbsälzerfamilien and brine bath Werl
- Werl at the time of the First World War
- Werl during the Nazi dictatorship from 1933 to 1945 depicting the persecution of the Jews
- Tools of the trade and historical craft
- The salt production with the help of the saltworks
- Crucifix collection
- Marian pilgrimage in Werl
- Historical development of the city from 1803 to 1933
- Time of industrialization
Wendelin Leidinger
Wendelin Leidinger (* February 19, 1927 † March 19, 2010), after whom the museum was named, was for decades a local curator who took great care of the house and the history of the city of Werl.
literature
- Rudolf Preising : Rykenberg House. History of the municipal museum in Werl . Verlag Stadt Werl, Werl 1981.
- Arne Steinert, P. Lang: Concepts of the musealization of technology and work . 1997.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ WORLD ART: The world art . 1985, limited preview in Google Book search
Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 4.7 " N , 7 ° 54 ′ 49.1" E