Rise and Fall of the Anabaptist Kingdom of Münster 1532 – 36 Lecture by Matthias Christian Pausch, M. A.

Stadtmuseum Meppen An der Koppelschleuse 19a, Meppen

In 1543, Franz von Waldeck, Bishop of Münster and thus sovereign of the Lower Abbey, introduced the Reformation in Emsland and Meppen. The Protestant confession was to hold sway in the region for almost 70 years before Catholicism reasserted itself in the course of the Counter-Reformation. In the 1530s, however, von Waldeck initially had [...]

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31st Emsland pottery market

Kunstzentrum Koppelschleuse An der Koppelschleuse 19, Meppen, Niedersachsen, Deutschland

The Meppen Art Circle invites you to this year's pottery market on the idyllic grounds of the Art Center. About 30 professional ceramists will again show masterful ceramic art. This year you will again come across "old" well-known ceramists, such as Frauke Schlegelmilch with the special salt shakers and Nadine Breulmann with figurative ceramics. [...]

House of Little Scientists – Closing Event

Emsland Archäologie Museum

Last year, the Emsland Archaeology Museum made its premises available for the further training of specialists and teachers as part of the "Haus der kleinen Forscher" project. That afternoon, the results of the workshops will be presented in the atrium of the Emsland Archaeology Museum. But the training program goes into another round: On [...]

Sean Taylor

Biergarten Helter Damm 1, Meppen, Niedersachsen, Deutschland

Sean Taylor's unique songwriting is a cocktail of Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and Jack Kerouac. With a voice that's a cross between John Martyn and Van Morrison, and a guitar style that sounds like an acoustic Stevie Ray Vaughan jamming with JJ Cale. His distinctive vocals are likely to be just one of his [...]

Open studio

Kunstzentrum Koppelschleuse An der Koppelschleuse 19, Meppen, Niedersachsen, Deutschland

In the Open Studio we meet to create art together. Here, everyone is welcome who has the desire to develop artistically - children and adults, advanced and beginners, newcomers and "old hands"! The focus is on the joy of creating. There is an opportunity to try your hand at various materials: The premises of [...]

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Treasure hunters among themselves

Emsland Archäologie Museum

By popular demand, District Archaeologist Thomas Kassens offers an informal meeting for metal detectorists on the last Thursday of each month. Treasure hunting was already a topic in the early Middle Ages. From this time comes the so-called "Schatzregal", which states that all finds deeper than a plowshare (about 30 cm) belong to the [...]

Public guided tour of the Meppen City Museum

Stadtmuseum Meppen An der Koppelschleuse 19a, Meppen

In the fall of 2020, the newly established Meppen City Museum opened its doors at the Koppelschleuse. During a 60-minute guided tour of the museum, visitors will get to know the new museum and learn many interesting facts about the history of Meppen. You will travel through time with experienced museum guides who are [...]

ParkLicht – Light art at the Koppel lock

Park an der Koppelschleuse An der Koppelschleuse 19, Meppen, Niedersachsen, Deutschland

"ParkLicht" features a course of six light art installations. The works of artists from all over Germany react to their surroundings, enter into dialogue with the park and with the coincidences of weather, atmosphere, time of day and season. The artists accentuate undiscovered places, modify known places, create new spaces. The site is opened [...]

Ceramics Seminar: Selected Printing Techniques and their Application to Ceramics

Kunstzentrum Koppelschleuse, Remise Meppen

This workshop will focus on the application of lithography as one of the important flat printing processes in the artistic field. For the printing block we will not print from the stone (lithos), but we will prepare photocopies on paper and special foil, which have water-friendly and water-unfriendly parts, as a printing matrix and [...]

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