Romanesque house, Bad Kösen

The Romanesque house is one of the oldest secular buildings in central Germany. It was built prior to 1100 as the farmhouse for the bishops of Naumburg, but transferred to the Cistercian monastery at Pforta in 1137.

It has been a museum since 1955, and stages a regular series of exhibitions as well as tracing the developing of Bad Kösen from rafter’s village to saline spa. The most important exhibit is the ‘parliament cabinet’ from the Cistercian monastery at Pforta. The associated art gallery houses a permanent exhibition of Käthe Kruse dolls.