Folklore Museum Schleswig

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The Volkskunde Museum Schleswig was a branch of the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum for Art and Cultural History . The largest folklore museum in the state was dedicated to the documentation of historical everyday culture in Schleswig-Holstein and showed permanent presentations and special exhibitions on regional history and cultural studies topics from the 18th century to the present. The museum was located about 1 km from Gottorf Castle on the Schleswig Hesterberg .

History of the museum

The origins of the Schleswig Folklore Museum go back to the collection of the Kiel university professor Gustav Ferdinand Thaulow (1817–1883), who had compiled an extensive collection of objects from Schleswig-Holstein since the mid-19th century . The Thaulow Museum , founded in Kiel in 1878 , was later renamed the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum. After Allied air raids had largely destroyed the Kiel museum building in World War II , the State Museum was moved to Schleswig and reopened in Gottorf Castle in 1950 .

The first state museum director after the war, Ernst Schlee (1910–1994) expanded the museum's collection concept. When in the years of the economic boom the last traditional stocks of equipment for field, house and farm work were replaced by products from the industrial age , Schlee initiated the "Schleswig-Holstein Folklore Recording" in 1957. Folklorist Arnold Lühning (1923–2002) was appointed to organize this major project. From 1957 to 1988 he was curator at Gottorf Castle and the founder of the modern folklore collections .

In 1993, the state of Schleswig-Holstein acquired a former military site on Schleswig's Hesterberg. Here, the folklore collections of the Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Foundation were given a spacious new location, which from 2002 to 2013 was called the “Schleswig Folklore Museum”.

The Landesmuseum für Volkskunde has been located in the Schleswig-Holstein Open-Air Museum in Molfsee since January 1, 2013 , and the museum in Schleswig has been closed since April 2014. In future, the site will serve as the central storage facility for the state museums.

Collections

From the collection of the Folklore Museum: Fictional sign for the world's largest heavy metal festival in Wacken, Schleswig-Holstein

The museum had one of the most extensive collections of agricultural implements in Germany from before mechanization . In addition, there was extensive inventory of historical tools and workshop equipment from over forty trades , household items and a large collection of tile and cast iron stoves . Architectural parts and interior fittings as well as an important furniture collection formed a further focus. The museum also had the largest collection of rural textiles in Schleswig-Holstein. Other holdings included pewter, gold and silver work, folk graphics and painting as well as objects relating to the more recent history of Schleswig-Holstein.

A particularly valuable area for the research was the 50,000 historical photos on architecture, everyday life and work in rural Schleswig-Holstein as well as 43 documentaries and around 10,000 slides from Arnold Lühning's museum work.

In 2006 the museum was able to take over two large collections of police history into its holdings - the collection of Wolfgang Kroker, the long-time commissioner for police history of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, who had put together one of the largest private police collections in Germany, and the former teaching material collection of the police department for education and training Training in Eutin . From then on, the Folklore Museum owned a collection of police history that was unique in Northern Germany and was presented in regular special exhibitions from October 2007.

Exhibitions

The museum showed the following permanent exhibitions:

  • 4 like us - the children's exhibition
  • Schleswig-Holstein places of remembrance
  • Riot! Troubled times 1840–2010
  • From ironer board to moulinette . Show magazine »Hauswirtschaft«
  • From A to B. Mobility and traffic in Schleswig-Holstein
  • Equipment and labor of the farmers
  • Museum garden
  • Folk art (in Gottorf Castle )

literature

  • Carsten Fleischhauer, Guntram Turkowski: What was left of the country. A lost epoch - photographed by Arnold Lühning. Heide 2011, ISBN 978-3-8042-1345-6 .
  • Wolfgang Kroker: Police history in Schleswig-Holstein. Ed. U. edit v. Carsten Fleischhauer and Guntram Turkowski, Heide 2010, ISBN 978-3-8042-1312-8 .
  • Carsten Fleischhauer, Guntram Turkowski: The realignment of the Folklore Museum in Schleswig. In: Communications from the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History 73 (2008), pp. 43–48.
  • Carsten Fleischhauer, Guntram Turkowski (eds.): Schleswig-Holsteinic places of memory. Heide 2006, ISBN 978-3-8042-1204-6 .
  • Arnold Lühning: The folklore equipment collection of the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum Schleswig, Gottorf Castle. Schleswig 1972 etc.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Carsten Fleischhauer, Guntram Turkowski: What was left over from the country . Heide 2011, pp. 7-25
  2. ^ Michael Radtke: Folklore in the future just a museum magazine? In: Schleswiger Nachrichten . December 15, 2012, accessed April 11, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Harding: Folklore closure: Gottorf should pay. In: Schleswiger Nachrichten . March 11, 2015, accessed April 11, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Ove Jensen: Gottorf's new storage room. In: Schleswiger Nachrichten . April 9, 2015, accessed April 11, 2015 .

Coordinates: 54 ° 31 '5.56 "  N , 9 ° 32' 52.02"  E