Nettelstedt car museum

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The surroundings of the Nettelstedt car museum  - view from the Wiehengebirge over part of Nettelstedt towards the peat bog

The Nettelstedt Automobile Museum was a large private exhibition of automobiles . It existed in the late 1960s until November 1972; Under different management, origins may date back to the late 1950s. Was home to the museum in Nettelstedt , a community in East Westphalia , which in 1973 in the city of Lübbecke in district Minden-Lübbecke incorporated was. The relevant initiators were the textile - producer , automobile collectors and reference book - Author Uwe Hucke (1939-2002) and his wife Monika. The facility has been referred to several times as "the largest German car museum" of its time.

Museum history

The museum operation

The address “Automuseum Nettelstedt, Rietkampstrasse, D – 4991 Nettelstedt” has been handed down for 1970 (today D – 32312 Lübbecke). At that time it was open to visitors seven days a week for eight hours each, on Saturdays and Sundays even nine hours. The collection comprised almost one hundred automobiles and, according to the company, was the largest in Germany at the time. One focus was on the beginnings of motorization at the end of the 19th century. The postcards issued by the museum sometimes include the additional location description "on the B 65 ". Were used commercial halls , which were only rented.

At that time, the initiator and operator Uwe Hucke was co-owner of the textile company Erwin Hucke , a successful family business in Nettelstedt; his brother Hans Hucke (1942 / 43-2016) occurred in parallel as a functionary and patron of the Handball - club TuS Nettelstedt in appearance.

After the English-language journal Veteran & Vintage Magazine was motorcycle - a journalist and art - historian Erwin Tragatsch director of the 1970 Auto Museum Nettelstedt appointed as head of the magazines for publishing connected for automotive books and. After the also English-language specialist magazine Automobile Quarterly , he was followed in 1971 by Hans-Wolf Schneider ("Hawe" Schneider) as museum director; previously he had celebrated success as a jazz musician in West Berlin . According to this source, the collection at that time comprised one hundred vehicles, of which "only" 58 were open to the public.

Uwe Hucke developed parallel to a lover and connoisseur of the Molsheim automobile brand Bugatti . As a result of brand meetings, the Nettelstedt car museum became "a Mecca for many, not just German Bugattists."

Details on starting the museum

It is not clear when exactly the Nettelstedt car museum existed. According to one source, Hucke opened it in the spring of 1968. Another source suggests an opening in November 1967. The museum has another source at the address “Rietkampstr. 415 ”and the director Erwin Tragatsch; it is dated to 1958 - in this respect different from the other sources.

Details about the end of the museum

The museum's operation ended on November 5, 1972 because the landlord wanted to use the rooms industrially from 1973 . As early as July 1972 it was reported that a new museum for old motorcycles was to be built in neighboring Bad Oeynhausen . Uwe Hucke then teamed up with the motor vehicle enthusiast Willy Helmerding to set up this new vehicle museum. The plans envisaged 100 automobiles and 150 motorcycles. It finally opened on April 21, 1973 at the address "Weserstraße 142, 4970 Bad Oeynhausen", directly at the Bad Oeynhausen motorway junction . The name was initially the German Auto + Motorcycle Museum or just Auto + Motorcycle Museum , later the Motor Technica Museum Bad Oeynhausen and it was considered the successor to the Nettelstedt car museum .

In individual foreign-language publications it is incorrectly stated that the Nettelstedt car museum existed in 1977.

Former vehicle inventory

Overview

One of the oldest models in the Nettelstedt automobile museum , a Benz Velo Comfortable
Probably the oldest surviving Maybach , a W 5 from 1926, formerly in Nettelstedt, today in Sinsheim
The Bugatti Type 44 “Fiacre” Coupé from 1929, previously exhibited in Nettelstedt

The vehicle inventory included in particular a Maybach W 5 , a Benz Velo Comfortable , a Renault Type CI , a Daimler Phönix as well as automobiles from Dürkopp , De Dion-Bouton , Wanderer , Veritas , Talbot , Simson Supra and Alvis . One focus was cars whose engine by means of a compressor charged was as a front-wheel drive Alvis FWD , a Mercedes-Benz 380 and a Mercedes-Benz SS . Another focus was on Bugatti brand automobiles . One of the oldest motor vehicles in the collection was a Seck from the designer Willy Seck from 1898 based on the Benz & Cie.

As evidenced by postcards and photographs from different epochs, an Adler type 10/50 from 1925, an Alvis Speed ​​20 , an Aston Martin type International, a BMW 315/1 and a BMW 327 were at least temporarily part of the museum's collection . Of Bugatti an early vehicle were visible in 1914, two Type 44 (a Roadster of 1928 and a coupe of 1929) as well as a Type 57 with Cabriolet -Aufbau. The collection also included a Cooper racing car for Formula 2 , a Darracq Type 13, a Dürkopp Type P 16 from 1917, a Ford Model T from 1919 and a Hanomag 2/10 PS ("Kommißbrot") from 1924. Other exhibits were a Le Zèbre Type C, a Lion-Peugeot VC , a Maybach SW 38 , a Peugeot Bébé , a Salmson Grand Prix and passenger cars from Berliet , Hispano-Suiza , Horch and Panhard & Levassor .

Details on individual collection items

Another exhibit was a Dürkopp ND 10/24 PS double phaeton from 1909 with a body by Karmann from Osnabrück . It was "imported" from the German Democratic Republic in 1962 and is probably the oldest still existing vehicle with a Karmann body.

One of the “highlights” of the Nettelstedt automobile museum from 1970 onwards was a Maybach W 5 from 1926, with a Pullman limousine body , upgraded to the W 5 SG in 1928 . Probably the oldest surviving Maybach originally belonged to the Bad Ems personal doctor of the singer Enrico Caruso .

From the end of the 1960s to the 1970s, the museum's holdings also included the Ferrari 250 LM racing car with chassis number 5905 from 1964 (one of only 32 copies). The vehicle was originally delivered to the Swiss racing driver Heini Walter and the Ecurie Filipinetti racing team in Geneva and after a racing accident it had a newly built coupé body by Franco Sbarro , who was still chief mechanic of the racing team at the time. In Nettelstedt, the sports car was completely dismantled in preparation for a restoration .

According to a source in 1973, in fact apparently earlier, Uwe Hucke acquired a Bugatti Type 44 "Fiacre" Coupé from 1929 with a rare and unusual factory body designed by Jean Bugatti , the son of the company founder. From then on, the vehicle was on display in the Nettelstedt Automobile Museum until it was closed .

On the whereabouts of the vehicles after the museum was closed

It is unclear where many vehicles remained after the Nettelstedt car museum was closed . Most of them first moved to the museum in Bad Oeynhausen. At the latest with the closure of the museum there, some vehicles were sold individually to collectors, others in groups with a thematic focus to other collections. Huckes partner Helmerding initially took over several. The Dürkopp ND 10/24 PS came to the factory museum of Dürkopp Adler AG in Bielefeld via several intermediate stops in 1985 . The Maybach W 5 from 1926 came to the Sinsheim Auto and Technology Museum in the mid-1980s . The dismantled Ferrari 250 LM , which has meanwhile been exhibited in Bad Oeynhausen, was acquired by the automobile designer Henry “Hank” Haga , who worked for Chevrolet in the United States and for Opel in Rüsselsheim , in the mid-1970s , and had it completely restored and used in historic motorsport ; the car, which later passed through several collectors' hands, still exists today.

The Bugatti Type 44 “Fiacre” Coupé from 1929 was later transferred to the car museum in Bad Oeynhausen and became the property of the museum operator and collector Helmerding. After further stops, the vehicle was put up for auction in January 2010 by the Bonhams auction house in Paris with an estimate of 220,000 to 260,000  euros .

The publishing house Automuseum Nettelstedt and other publications of the museum

In addition to the permanent collection, the museum had its own publishing house , the Automuseum Nettelstedt publishing house .

Books

In particular, the elaborate specialist book appeared there:

  • Michael Graf Wolff Metternich : Die Geschichte der Maybach -Automobile / The History of the Maybach Automobile / Das Maybach-Register . Nettelstedt, no year (depending on the source around 1967, around 1970 or 1973), without ISBN (German / English).

In addition to the work publication 50 Years Maybach / 50 Years of Maybach - 1909–1959 , Maybach-Motorenbau GmbH, Friedrichshafen, around 1960, without ISBN (German / English), this specialist book was for a long time the standard work for Maybach automobiles and engines.

Magazines (automobile chronicle)

In addition, from the first edition in January 1972 up to and including July 1972 , the publishing house Automuseum Nettelstedt published the old-timer magazine Automobil Chronik - the magazine for friends of classic and historical vehicles , which was published directly by the museum during this period. In this phase the editor-in-chief was Erwin Tragatsch; The main authors were the journalist and non-fiction author Hans-Heinrich von Fersen , the motorsport journalist and former racing driver Richard von Frankenberg , the Austrian motorcycle historian Helmut Krackowizer , Michael Graf Wolff Metternich, Hans-Otto Neubauer and Wolfgang Schmarbeck . The advertisements - acquisition and sales of the automobile chronicle of the Nettelstedt automobile museum were the responsibility of Mi-a-zet advertising agency GmbH . The Automobil Chronik was the first pure classic car magazine in Germany.

For the other monthly editions of 1972, the specially founded Automobil Chronik Verlags & Vertriebs GmbH & Co. KG acted as the publisher and editor of the magazine. From January 1973 Halwart Schrader took over the management of the magazine with the publishing house Schrader & Partner , which from then on appeared as an automobile and motorcycle chronicle and finally found an unofficial successor with the Motor Klassik from 1984.

Postcards and posters with automobiles from the collection

In addition, the Nettelstedt Automobile Museum issued numerous postcards at various times showing some of the vehicles on display. They were made at Cramers Kunstanstalt KG in Dortmund . Many of the vehicle images were also available as large-format posters .

Cigar bands with automobiles of the collection

In cooperation with the cigar and cigarillo factory Josef Hellhake GmbH & Co. KG from the neighboring municipality of Hille in the Minden-Lübbecke district ( brand : Helha ), the Nettelstedt car museum sold cigars with special banderoles : the images on the belly bands show six different ones Automobiles from the museum: the Adler , the Alvis Speed ​​20 , the BMW 327 , an early Bugatti , the Hispano-Suiza and the Lion-Peugeot .

Significance for the museum landscape

Of great importance was the car museum Nettelstedt in the founding of the German Car Museum Schloss Langenburg 1970 in Württemberg through the motor sports journalists and former racing driver Richard von Frankenberg and nobility descendants Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg : from Frankenberg's collection basis, since not enough, the set Auto Museum Nettelstedt as At that time the largest German automobile museum - in addition to the factory museums of Porsche , Mercedes-Benz and the NSU engine works - various vehicles mainly from the 1920s and 30s are available on loan.

In 1972 the German journalist Rudolf Augstein addressed the growing interest in (federal) German automobile museums and their increasing importance in the news magazine Der Spiegel . As positive examples, he highlighted the Langenburg Castle Automobile Museum with 44 old-timers on display at the time , which had recently expanded the exhibition area to include a former barn ; on the other hand, he highlighted the Nettelstedt automobile museum , for which he names fifty vehicles on display, as well as the specialist magazine Automobil Chronik , which was published there shortly before . On the other hand, he referred to the potential of automobile museums in the United States such as the National Automobile Museum in Reno , Nevada , the William Harrah Collection of the American entrepreneur William F. Harrah (1911-1978) with 1,300 vehicles at the time.

Marketing and Tourism

The Nettelstedt car museum was also marketed as a “monument to the street”. For groups and clubs, the Association of the City offered Minden any case in 1972 at a special event package: It combined a visit to the car museum Nettelstedt and a railway -Fahrt with start and end point of Minden in a vintage car small train with draft beer - serving .

Mentions in publications of third parties

The Nettelstedt Automobile Museum was mentioned several times in contemporary and later publications, partly as an editor and publisher for automotive literature, partly in connection with individual vehicles on display, for example in German-language specialist literature:

  • NN, in: German book directory . VEB Verlag für Buch- und Bibliothekwesen, Leipzig 1971, p. 184.
  • Werner Oswald : Adler automobiles: 1900–1945 - history and typology of a major German car brand from past decades . Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 978-3-8794-3783-2 .
  • Halwart Schrader: Deutsche Automobiles, Volume 1, 1885–1920 . Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 978-3-6130-2211-9 .
  • Siegfried Rauch, in: Frank Rönicke (Ed.): DKW: History of a World Brand . Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-6130-2815-9 .

See also

literature

  • Timothy Robin Nicholson: The World's Motor Museums. JM Dent & Sons, London 1970, ISBN 978-0-4600-3929-1 , pp. 8 and 76 (English).
  • Albert L. Lewis, Walter A. Musciano: Automobiles of the World . Simon & Schuster , New York City 1977, ISBN 978-0-6712-2485-1 , pp. 65, 228, 323 and 679 (English).
  • NN, in: Automobile Quarterly (magazine), 1971, p. 124 (English).

Web links

Commons : Automuseum Nettelstedt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uwe Hucke on the web portal of Verlag Karren - Verlag für Kraftfahrzeughistorische Literatur , accessed on November 1, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c d Information on Uwe Hucke and the Nettelstedt car museum on the Bugatti Club Deutschland e. V. ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 1, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bugatti-club-deutschland.de
  3. ↑ a b c d Timothy Robin Nicholson: The World's Motor Museums. J. M. Dent & Sons, London 1970, ISBN 978-0-4600-3929-1 , pp. 8 and 76 (English).
  4. ↑ a b ADAC (Journal) no. 6 from 1 June 1971, p 61, are listed on the web portal zwischengas.com , accessed on November 1, 2017.
  5. ↑ a b c Overview of postcards and photographs of motor vehicles of the Automuseum Nettelstedt , produced by Cramers Kunstanstalt KG , on the web portal Sichtskarten-center.de (the search term “Automuseum Nettelstedt” must be entered) , accessed on November 1, 2017.
  6. ↑ a b c d e N. N., in: Automobil Chronik (magazine), “A new museum in Germany”, Automobil Chronik Verlag & Vertriebs GmbH & Co KG, Nettelstedt, issue 11/1972, pp. 18-20.
  7. ^ NN, in: Veteran & Vintage Magazine (magazine), Pioneer Publications, Beaulieu, United Kingdom 1970, p. 217 (English).
  8. ↑ a b N. N., in: Automobile Quarterly (magazine), 1971, p. 124 (English).
  9. ^ Walter Kaupert : Internationales art address book / Anuario Internacional de los Artes . Volume 1. Kaupert-Verlag , Berlin 1958, p. 148.
  10. ↑ a b HS (probably Halwart Schrader ), in: Automobil und Motorrad Chronik (magazine), "Bad Oeynhausen - the new Mecca of automobile pilgrims from all over the world", Verlag Schrader & Partner, Munich, issue 5/1973, p. 22-25.
  11. ^ A b Deutsches Auto + Motorrad Museum, in: Automobil und Motorrad Chronik (magazine), advertisement for the museum opening in Bad Oeynhausen, Verlag Schrader & Partner, Munich, issue 3/1973, p. 19.
  12. ^ A b Albert L. Lewis, Walter A. Musciano: Automobiles of the World . Simon & Schuster , New York City 1977, ISBN 978-0-6712-2485-1 , pp. 65, 228, 323 and 679 (English).
  13. ↑ a b "Dürkopp Adler and a very special old-timer - a glimpse into the past", report on the Dürkopp ND 10/24 PS , formerly in the Nettelstedt car museum , today in the Dürkopp Adler AG works museum in Bielefeld, from February 14, 2017 on the occasion of Bremen Classic Motorshow 2017 on the web portal duerkopp-adler.com , accessed on November 1, 2017.
  14. ↑ a b Overview of individual automobiles that were built or bodyworked in Osnabrück, including the Dürkopp ND 10/24 PS , which was temporarily exhibited in the Nettelstedt Automobile Museum , on the oldtimer-os-st.de web portal , accessed on November 1, 2017.
  15. ↑ a b backgrounds to the former in the car museum Nettelstedt issued Maybach W 5 of 1926 on the web portal maybach.de ( Memento of the original February 11, 2013 Webcite ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 1, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.maybach.de
  16. ↑ The temporarily in the car museum Nettelstedt issued Maybach W 5 of 1926 on the web portal traumautoarchiv.de , accessed November 1, 2017th
  17. ↑ a b Details of the dismantled Ferrari 250 LM with chassis number 5905 on the web portal barchetta.cc , accessed on November 1, 2017 (English), which was temporarily exhibited in the Nettelstedt Automobile Museum .
  18. ↑ a b Details on the Bugatti Type 44 “Fiacre” Coupé from 1929, which was temporarily exhibited in the Nettelstedt Automobile Museum, on the web portal of the Bonhams auction house , accessed on November 1, 2017 (French / English).
  19. ↑ C. Lyle Cummins: Internal Fire . Carnot Press, Lake Oswego, Oregon 1976, ISBN 978-0-9173-0801-7 , p. 351 with footnote 21 (English).
  20. ↑ a b N. N .: Guide for Press and Advertising / Annual Directory through Press and Advertising (magazine), Volume 26, Stamm-Verlag, Essen 1973, pp. 22 and 130.
  21. ↑ a b Ulrich Kubisch, Andreas Curtius, Joachim Dufner: The automobile as reading material: On the history of the German motor press - 1898-1998 . Volume 29: Exhibition catalogs (= Volume 29 of the Bibliotheca Ibero-Americana). Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin 1998, ISBN 978-3-8950-0072-0 , p. 73.
  22. ↑ Automobil Chronik (magazine), edition 8/1972, p. 3.
  23. ↑ Automobil und Motorrad Chronik (magazine), issue 1/1973, p. 3.
  24. ↑ The complete collection of Helha brand cigar bandages with motifs from the Nettelstedt Automobile Museum on a sales portal , accessed on November 1, 2017 (English).
  25. ^ Rudolf Augstein : Oldtimer - Lancia vom Duce , in: Der Spiegel (magazine), Spiegel-Verlag , Hamburg 1972, issue 29, p. 100 ( online version ).
  26. ^ NN, in: Westermanns Monatshefte (magazine), Georg Westermann Verlag , Braunschweig 1972, p. 120.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Sometimes in publications you can find the different, incorrect spelling “Auto-Museum Nettelstedt”, for example in Automobile Quarterly , 1971, p. 124 and in Kubisch / Curtius / Dufner, p. 73, also “Auto Museum Nettelstedt”, for example on the Web portal motorbase.com , accessed on November 1, 2017 (English).
  2. ↑ Occasionally in foreign-language publications the incorrect large-scale classification “Lübeck” or “about Lübeck” instead of Lübbecke, as Lewis / Musciano: Automobiles of the World , pp. 65, 228, 323 and 679.
  3. ↑ The "Rietkampstraße" in Nettelstedt was and is relatively short. In this respect, there are doubts about the given house number "415". It may come from a time when all buildings in the town were numbered regardless of the specific street, or when it actually means “4/5”.

Coordinates: 52 ° 18 '10.7 "  N , 8 ° 42' 1.4"  E