International Fire Brigade Museum Schwerin
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| place | Hamburger Allee 68, 19063 Schwerin 
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| opening | 2009 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | 14,000 (2011) |
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Int. Fire Brigade Museum Schwerin eV
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-715613 |
The International Fire Brigade Museum Schwerin is Germany's largest fire brigade museum. It is located in the hall at the television tower in the Neu Zippendorf district of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state capital Schwerin , directly at the television tower .
The concept
The museum shows the history of fire fighting and fire services , the technical and political development as well as the social history of the fire fighters . The focus is on the fire fighters in dealing with their dangerous work.
Attached to the museum is a museum bistro with a corresponding ambience and a shop.
The exhibition
Over 15,000 exhibits can be seen, including 112 vehicles, trailers and large equipment on an area of over 4500 m². The exhibition is designed in time, theme and country windows that clearly document the work of the fire brigade. The vehicle collection consists of many East German makes ( Ernst Grube Werdau , Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau , Robur ), but there are also rare versions of fire fighting vehicles from other manufacturers such as Mercedes-Benz , Opel , VW , Hanomag , Ford and Magirus-Deutz and partly prototypes.
Create your own collection areas:
- Nozzle collection with around 700 nozzles
- Helmet collection with around 450 helmets and caps
- Model car collection with around 3000 model cars in showcases and dioramas
- Respiratory protection exhibition with over 2000 exhibits and a historical breathing protection training facility
- Exhibition with around 1000 medals, medals and badges
- international collection with over 1200 exhibits of fire department first day letters and postal items
Time window 1851
Mercedes-Benz SLG (heavy fire extinguishing group vehicle) from the time of National Socialism
Fire truck LF 16-Chemie
Volkswagen fire chief car from 1952
Daimler-Benz L 319 / LF 8
Robur LO 2500 fire brigade DL 16
IFA W50
Fire brigade multipurpose boat
International collection
The exhibition is international. The helmet, uniform, nozzle, badge, philately , respiratory protection and technology collection contains extensive international exhibits.
The fire brigades in England, Poland, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, the USSR and Austria have their own country windows with vehicles and / or small exhibits.
Since 2014 the museum has been showing a special feature throughout Germany as part of a permanent exhibition in 3 rooms: "The cultural history of fire using the example of ironing equipment". For this purpose, around 1000 international exhibits from the field of irons were exhibited, which show the cultural history of fire in an understandable manner for every visitor.
Bedford fire truck from England
Aveling-Barford 3-wheel company fire brigade from England
history
The fire brigade museum in Schwerin was opened in April 2009. The hall at the television tower , which was built in 1977 as a multi-purpose hall , was among other things a venue for concerts, cultural events, trade fairs and conferences and could hold up to 2500 people. The starting point of the International Fire Brigade Museum was the State Fire Brigade Museum Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Meetzen, a district of Holdorf near Schwerin. The exhibits were relocated in spring 2009.
Web links
- Official website
- International Fire Brigade Museum in Schwerin badly ailing. Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 27, 2018, accessed on August 19, 2020 .