Stadtmuseum Werdohl
City museum at Werdohl station on transport routes, the wire and aluminum industries, and the transformation from a church village in the Lenne valley into a town.
Om museet
The Stadtmuseum is supported by the Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Werdohl (local history society), founded in 1983, which runs it together with the town. It opened on April 30, 1989, in a building on Goethestraße; in 2003 and 2004 its concept and displays were thoroughly reworked.
In October 2013, the museum moved into an annex of the former Werdohl station building on Bahnhofsplatz. The previous building on Goethestraße was demolished in 2015. The exhibition is looked after by volunteer members of the society, who also offer guided tours.
The permanent exhibition shows how a remote church village in the Lenne valley with barely a thousand inhabitants became, through industrialization, a town that received its town charter in 1936. One section follows the transport routes – from the Lenne ford and the connection to the Ruhr-Sieg railway in 1861 to the narrow-gauge Kreis Altenaer Eisenbahn. Another is devoted to metalworking: from the medieval bloomery furnace and the Osemund hammer mills, through the rolling mill in Elverlingsen, which was converted into Germany's first wire rolling mill in 1817, to early aluminum processing, plus a side section on the Werdohl patrons of airship construction, Carl Berg and Alfred Colsman.
Other rooms deal with the development of the church, administration, and schools, working and living conditions since 1860, and domestic life in Werdohl.
Højdepunkter
- Elverlingsen rolling mill – the first wire rolling mill in Germany
- Early aluminum industry and Werdohl's link to airship construction
- Railway and light-railway history from the Ruhr-Sieg railway to the Kreis Altenaer Eisenbahn
- Everyday life, work, and housing in the industrial town since 1860
Permanente udstillinger
- Dauerausstellung zur Werdohler Stadtgeschichte – Themed rooms on transport routes, the development from village to town, the iron and wire trades, living conditions since 1860, and housing in Werdohl.
- Grundlagt
- 1989
- Ejer
- Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Werdohl e. V. gemeinsam mit der Stadt Werdohl
Entrépriser & rabatter
Museet har ikke offentliggjort oplysninger om dette – spørg venligst museet direkte.
Tilgængelighed
Museet har ikke offentliggjort oplysninger om dette – spørg venligst museet direkte.
Børn og familie
Museet har ikke offentliggjort oplysninger om dette – spørg venligst museet direkte.
Transport & parkering
Med offentlig transport
Bahnhof Werdohl
Werdohl station – the museum is in an annex of the former station building on Bahnhofsplatz.
Service & spisesteder
Museet har ikke offentliggjort oplysninger om dette – spørg venligst museet direkte.
Arrangementer & udlejning
Museet har ikke offentliggjort oplysninger om dette – spørg venligst museet direkte.
Planlæg dit besøg
| Rundvisninger | ja |
|---|---|
| Godt at vide | Private guided tours also outside opening hours on request from the Heimat- und Geschichtsverein. |
