Bachmann Museum Bremervörde

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Bachmann Museum Bremervörde
Bremervörde, old district building front side.jpg
Exterior view of the museum in August 2006.
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place Amtsallee 8, 27432 Bremervörde Coordinates: 53 ° 28 ′ 58.9 ″  N , 9 ° 9 ′ 4.2 ″  EWorld icon
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opening 1960
operator
Bachmann Museum Bremervörde Foundation
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ISIL DE-MUS-028419
Hüttendorf am Auesee, 2006
The Bremen bog body , July 2012

The Bachmann Museum in the northwest German city ​​of Bremervörde is a combined regional and natural history museum and the largest museum facility in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district . It is located in the oldest building in town, the former archbishop's chancellery building , which was part of the Vorwerk of Bremervörde Castle . Previously, the premises were used as the headquarters of the district administration and, until 1991, as a district archive.

The historian Ellen Horstrup has been the director of the museum since October 2012. She replaced the geologist Ulrich Schliemann, who had been in office since 2003.

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The museum goes back to the local historian August Bachmann (1893–1983), who has been researching the region since his youth and putting on collections on geology , archeology , history and folklore . In 1929 he opened parts of his house for the first time for a public exhibition. After the collections became more and more extensive, the then Bremervörde district made the current premises available to him, in which the new museum was opened in October 1960. Initially, the district home museum was sponsored by the district. In 1985 it was named Bachmann Museum in honor of its founder . In 2001, Bachmann's daughter Elfriede set up the Bachmann Museum Bremervörde Foundation together with the district. Its aim is to maintain the museum and the collection permanently, to expand it and to develop it culturally and scientifically.

By 1971 August Bachmann had assembled around 11,000 exhibits for his geological collection alone - including his own finds as well as holdings from deceased private collectors. Today the museum has around 80,000 objects from the fields of geology , zoology , botany , archeology , moor archeology , folklore and natural history . These include tools and jewelry since the Stone Age , coins, Ice Age mammoth bones , drill cores , Cretan fossils and finds from the tertiary mica clay , as well as more than 350 paintings and a herbarium with a world flora comprising 2500 plants. With these collections, the Bachmann Museum Bremervörde provides a comprehensive insight into the historical, cultural and historical development of the Elbe-Weser triangle .

The most important and best-known of the approximately 800 exhibits on display include the Bremervörde bog body found in 1934 , a Bronze Age sword from Alfstedt , neck rings from the same period from Klein Meckelsen (Marschhorst district), the end-Neolithic disc wheel from Gnarrenburg ( Karlshöfen district ) recovered in 1942 and two 12 million Year-old tooth whale skeletons from a clay pit in Lengenbostel (Freetz district). In addition, the so-called "Stone Age Village" has existed since 2004 on the Auesee, a few hundred meters away from and belonging to the museum. The life of Stone Age hunters and gatherers can be relived in several huts from the Mesolithic period , reconstructed from excavation findings. The village is a central part of the museum's educational offer and is often used as an extracurricular learning location . In 2015 it was modernized under the guidance of experimental archaeologist Harm Paulsen and wilderness educator Stefan Brocke and adapted to current educational needs and scientific findings.

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Individual evidence

  1. “What is Ulrich Schliemann actually doing?” On September 17th, 2012 on Rotenburger-rundschau.de ( Rotenburger Rundschau ). Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  2. "The Bachmann Museum in Bremervörde". Retrieved from Rotenburg.city-map.de on August 14, 2020.
  3. Soern White: "Bachmann museum with Stone Age village." Retrieved from freizeitengel.de (Freizeit-Engel - Freizeitspaß mit Kinder) on August 14, 2020.
  4. "Our Mission Statement". Retrieved from bachmann-museum.de (Bachmann Museum Bremervörde) on August 14, 2020.
  5. a b Theo Bick: "Free to the Stone Age". On March 9, 2016 on brv-zeitung.de ( Bremervörder Zeitung ). Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  6. Theo Bick: "The Stone Age Village of the Future". On June 10, 2015 on brv-zeitung.de ( Bremervörder Zeitung ). Retrieved August 14, 2020.