Built barocke Bibliothek /// Kalhöfer-Korschildgen

Wedinghausen Monastery was one of the most important monasteries in Westphalia. It was founded around 1170 and disbanded in 1803 during the Napoleonic Wars. As a result, parts of the building were destroyed, demolished or used for other purposes. The renovation under the preservation order had the …

… There was a writing room (scriptorium) in Wedinghausen early on, in which books for liturgy and study were made. This was a laborious technical and intellectual achievement. You needed the parchment of entire flocks of sheep or a lot of cattle or calf hides and rare color pigments, gold, …

We find a place in the heart of the city that had all possibilities, the quality of which was gambled away in the 1960s and is therefore an architectural no man’s land today. The discussion is about an existing, identityless building without any reference to history or the surrounding urban …