automobile world eisenach

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automobile world eisenach
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Data
place Friedrich-Naumann-Straße 10,
99817 Eisenach Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 52 ″  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 30 ″  EWorld icon
Art
architect
  • P. Rinke
    (Building O2)
  • Georg Schroeder
    (Building O5)
opening 1967 / June 4, 2005
Number of visitors (annually) approx. 30,000
operator
Automobile World Foundation Eisenach
management
Matthias Doht (Managing Director)
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-461514
Site plan of the former factories, museum building shown in red

The automobile world eisenach ( awe ) is an automobile museum in Eisenach . It provides an overview of the more than 100-year history of the Eisenach automotive industry . The museum is operated by the foundation automobile welt eisenach .

history

The former exhibition pavilion in Wartburgallee, 2009
The automobile exhibition on Wartburgallee (interior view, 1989)

In the first management building of the Eisenacher vehicle factory there was already an exhibition room for interested buyers in the style of today's car dealerships. The building was badly damaged in World War II and had to be demolished. The types of motorcycles and automobiles built in Eisenach were presented to the international public in the IFA exhibition pavilion on the Leipzig exhibition grounds after the war.

After the restored Wartburg motor vehicle was presented to the public at the Leipzig spring fair in 1967 , the desire for an exhibition of products from the then almost 70-year-old automotive tradition grew in Eisenach. Supported by the celebrations taking place in the city in 1967 for the anniversaries 900 years of Wartburg and 450 years of the Reformation , state funds were obtained to build an automobile exhibition pavilion on Wartburgallee in the southern part of the city, which was officially named " Wartburg pavilion" on October 27, 1967 opened and welcomed its one millionth visitor in 1977.

When the site of the exhibition pavilion was no longer available after the fall of the 1990s, the idea arose to set up a museum on the site of the former Eisenach automobile plant. In order to keep the vehicle collection in the city after the dissolution of the Eisenach automobile plant, the association Automobilbaumuseum Eisenach eV was founded with the support of the city . A provisional exhibition of historical vehicles took place on October 29, 1994 in the premises of the Wartburg-Sparkasse in Friedrich-Naumann-Straße. In 1997 the city of Eisenach acquired the "O2" building of the former automobile plant with the aim of setting up a car museum in it. A public competition to find a name for the new automobile exhibition hall was launched and Automobile Welt Eisenach - AWE was selected from 113 suggestions . The provisional exhibition in the Sparkasse building closed on May 2, 2005, and the new museum was officially opened on June 4, 2005.

By the end of 2005, the museum had more than 25,000 visitors, and the number of visitors has since leveled off at around 30,000 a year. On April 1, 2014, the sponsorship of the museum was transferred from the city of Eisenach to the foundation automobile welt eisenach .

Building stock

The main gate of the former Eisenach automobile plant

The technology museum, which opened on June 4, 2005, is located on the former site of the Eisenach automobile plant . The area includes the listed buildings of the former automobile plant, the former AWE main gate and the industrial building from 1935, which is known as O2 ( read: oh two ) and in which the exhibition is located. In the future, in addition to the O2, the O5 building, which has been used by the association to store its holdings, is to be integrated into the museum.

O2

The O2 exhibition hall, in front of it the historical Schuler press

The listed company building O2 was built in 1935 according to plans by the Munich architect P. Rinke in the north of the company premises. The elongated structure with a decorative clinker facade has a central staircase on the south side, which opens up the three-storey building with a cellar with 30 m long large rooms. The steel glass bay window in front of the stairwell and the steel ribbon windows in the facade, which are framed in concrete, are typical design features of the 1920s and 1930s, which can also be seen in the neighboring factory building O1. The 4.5 m storey height allows variable, primarily production-oriented use. Inside, stairs and steel doors are partially preserved in their original form. After 1945, the O2 building was primarily used for administrative purposes. The partition walls inserted in the large rooms were dismantled when the building was gutted around 1995.

The building was extensively renovated by 2016 and is now largely barrier-free . On the ground floor there is room A with the factory history and the service area; visitor toilets and a lift can be reached in the passage. Room B is dedicated to racing and rallying history. On the first floor there is room C with multimedia technology and exhibits on the history of the Eisenach Opel location. An approximately 40 m² factory model shows the existing building when vehicle production was discontinued in 1991. Hall D is used for changing exhibition themes; the opening in July 2016 was a reminder of the start of series production of the Wartburg 353 car in 1966. In June 2016, the Heinrich Ehrhardt Hall (Hall E) was inaugurated on the second floor as an event location for conferences and family celebrations. On this floor there is also a handicapped-accessible toilet as well as the AWE works archive with an extensive inventory of documents on the works history, with a focus on design and production documents.

In front of the O2, on August 27, 2007, an almost 80-ton double-cranked toggle-type deep-drawing press was erected as a technical monument . The press was manufactured in 1928 by the Schuler company from Göppingen and has since served in the body shop of the Eisenach vehicle factory. Over the years, it has been used to press body parts for DIXI, BMW, EMW and Wartburg. The 10.50 meter high, 6.50 meters wide and 3.70 meters long press was nearly 70 years to 1998 in operation and is available since 2000 as an industrial monument under monument protection .

O5

The former east canteen (building O5) from the south

Building O5 was built in 1936 as a comradeship building for BMW AG according to plans by the Eisenach architect Georg Schroeder. When it was built, the O5 had a large hall with a total of 550 seats. The building was integrated into the company premises with a large open space for meetings. After the Second World War, the house served primarily as a canteen to supply the workers at the Eisenach automobile plant, but also continued for political and cultural events of all kinds. In 1947, side wings were added to the long sides of the house to further increase capacity. Its location in the eastern part of the AWE premises earned the building the name Ostkantine .

After extensive renovation of the building and restoration of the original version, the building was presented to the public on the Open Monument Day 2013.

The listed building is currently used by the Automobilbau-Museum Eisenach eV as a club and warehouse.

Main gate

The former AWE main gate was the reconstruction of the car factory after World War II by the former BMW aircraft engine factory at Dürrerhof converted to its present location and spans since the Friedrich Naumann -Straße . At the time of the VEB AWE, the building housed the company security and a branch of the People's Police . After the plant was closed, it was saved from demolition and is now the seat of the Automobile World Eisenach Foundation .

exhibition

With numerous exhibits and original vehicles, the museum documents the more than one hundred years of automotive manufacturing tradition in Eisenach, starting with the Eisenach AG vehicle factory, through the DIXI , BMW , EMW , and Wartburg era to the start of production at the Eisenach Opel factory in 1992.

The exhibition is divided into several sections:

  • Beginnings of the factory and the Eisenach automobile construction
  • Dixi and takeover by BMW
  • National Socialism and Motorization in the 1930s
  • Arms production
  • “ Zero hour ” and the post-war period
  • Vehicles from the GDR era and discontinued developments
  • New beginning after 1990
  • Racing and rally history
  • Technical specialties and curiosities

The exhibits include:

  • Wartburg motor vehicle in exhibition room A.

  • Interior view - exhibition hall B (before the renovation)

  • Exhibition hall B after the installation of the »garage«

  • The factory model in exhibition room C

literature

  • Werner Reiche, Michael Stück: Milestones from Eisenach. A century of automobile history . Schrader, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-613-87260-9 , pp. 144 .
  • Association "Friends of the automotive industry in the Eisenach region" . In: MFB Eisenacher-Verlagsgesellschaft (Hrsg.): StadtZeit . January issue. Eisenach 2000, p. 24-27 .
  • Michael Stück among others: 10 years of the Automobilbau-Museum Eisenach eV 1992 - 2002. Druck- und Verlagshaus Frisch, Eisenach 2002, p. 18 .

Web links

Commons : automobile welt eisenach  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b City and Foundation sign new operating contract , accessed on March 12, 2014
  2. ↑ a b c History of the Eisenach Motor Show , accessed on January 29, 2013.
  3. ↑ a b Automobilmuseum: City and association cooperate , accessed on January 29, 2013.
  4. ↑ New automobile exhibition "Automobile Welt Eisenach" opened at an authentic production site. In: Thuringian State Gazette, Volume 15, No. 28/2005 of July 11, 2005
  5. ↑ a b Automobile Welt opens on June 4th , accessed on January 29th, 2013.
  6. ↑ Project presentation of the overall expansion of building O2 , accessed on July 23, 2016.
  7. ^ First special exhibition opened in Hall D , accessed on July 23, 2016.
  8. ^ Heinrich-Erhardt-Saal inaugurated in the Automobile Museum , accessed on July 23, 2016.
  9. ^ Technical monument in Eisenach , accessed on February 1, 2013.
  10. ↑ Technical monument: Double-cranked toggle-type deep drawing press , accessed on February 1, 2013.
  11. ↑ Review of the Open Monument Day in Eisenach 2013 , accessed on July 23, 2016.
  12. ↑ Report Ostkantine , called on May 23, 2013.
  13. ↑ Doing everything to preserve the Automobile Museum in Eisenach , accessed on January 29, 2013.
  14. ↑ New exhibition module in the Automobile Museum , accessed on June 9, 2017