On Tuesday 2 July at 8 p.m., the LWL Museum in the Kaiserpfalz will host a joint lecture event organised by the Historical Institute of Paderborn University, the Verein für Geschichte und Altertumskunde Westfalens, Abteilung Paderborn, and the Museum in the Kaiserpfalz. Prof Dr Carla Meyer-Schlenkrich (University of Münster) will speak on the topic: "A Cologne chronicle and its Westphalian readership. On the history of the impact of the 'Koelhoff Chronicle' from 1499".
The so-called Koelhoff Chronicle is one of the first printed city chronicles in the Holy Roman Empire. Composed by Johann Koelhoff in Cologne in 1499, more than 200 copies have survived. Although it was primarily intended to praise the "hilligen Stat van Coellen" and only compiled statements from other historical works until around 1450, it also attracted attention beyond the Rhineland. The good tradition makes it possible to reconstruct its readership more precisely than is generally possible for medieval historical works. Prof Dr Meyer-Schlenkrich will also follow this path with her lecture and will pursue the question of to what extent and for what reasons this Cologne chronicle also met with a response in the Westphalian region. She, who holds the Chair of Westphalian Regional History at the University of Münster, is thus combining her interest in the history of Westphalia, which is not only a professional one, with her expertise in the Cologne Chronicle of 1499, whose new, first complete digital edition she has been preparing for a few years in various research and teaching projects.
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