Bergisches Museum Schloss Burg an der Wupper

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The Bergisches Museum is located in Burg Castle

The Bergisches Museum Schloss Burg an der Wupper is located in Schloss Burg and is one of 15 museums in the North Rhine-Westphalian city ​​of Solingen . It gives an insight into the history of the Middle Ages , especially the knights and castles , as well as everyday culture, trade and history of the Bergisches Land . It is therefore often referred to as the Bergisches Landesmuseum .

history

A first museum was set up in 1894 during the reconstruction of Burg Castle in the knight's hall of the reconstructed hall structure . In 1911, the exhibition already occupied nine rooms on the top floor. The museum's collection was completely destroyed in a fire in 1920. Generous donations in kind and money from the Bergisch population enabled the reconstruction so that the museum could be resumed in 1927. The painter Erich Hasenclever took over the management .

Until 1962, the Bergisches Museum consisted of a succession of stately living rooms and bedrooms on the top floor of the Palas. Then the exhibition was completely redesigned. From 1985 the museum management had fundamental restorations and dismantling carried out in the museum rooms in order to redesign the exhibition one more time step by step. In the course of extensive renovation and modernization work on the palace, the museum's exhibition has been the subject of a redesign since 2014.

exhibition

Weapons in the armory
Dröppelminnas in the exhibition

The Bergisches Museum is primarily a regional museum, the focus of which is on the Bergisches Land and Burg Castle. The so-called historical rooms of the Hall building on the first floor provide not only a piece of reconstruction history of the castle, but by the by well-known members of the Düsseldorf School -made history paintings on the walls also important milestones in the history of the Bergisch Land and the counts and later Dukes of Berg .

In the museum rooms on the top floor there is the armory with weapons, armor , shields and chain mail from the 11th to 13th centuries. Another room deals with courtly hunting and shows, in addition to animal exhibits, rifles and weapons that were used for hunting. There are also various models on display, including a model of the entire castle complex, a model of the first castle under construction and the Battle of Worringen, recreated in miniature .

Other rooms deal with the Bergisch living culture of the 17th to 19th centuries and show furniture and furnishings from the Bergisches Land. Many different models of the typical Bergisch Dröppelminna can be seen, a baroque coffee pot , which was mostly made of tin as a substitute for the unaffordable silver . The museum's special exhibits include the following three pieces:

In addition to the hall building called the Palas , the keep of Burg Castle is also used by the Bergisches Museum. After two years of renovation and renovation work, it was officially reopened on July 7, 2018. The former dungeon on the ground floor serves as the first stop for visitors to the palace who want to explore the complex on a tour. The remaining five floors provide information about important events in the history of the castle and the Counts of Berg, as well as secular rule in the Middle Ages.

Until 2015, the museum also showed the establishment of two Rhenish-Bergisch pharmacies . When the Adler pharmacy, built in 1821 on Düsseldorfer Strasse in Opladen, was closed in 1980, its interior was moved to Burg Castle. Two years later, as a loan from the Chamber of Pharmacists of North Rhine the completely preserved Offizin of Cologne Unicorn pharmacy. Its furnishings were originally made around 1830 in Empire style for the Alte Apotheke in Siegburg . In 1867 she took over the Adler pharmacy in Hennef before finally moving to the Cologne unicorn pharmacy in 1949. The loan included more than 400 glass and porcelain vessels. The inventory also included German, Italian, Spanish and Dutch faiences , magnificent vessels made of black hyalithic glass , several mortars , first-aid kits and first-aid kits as well as historical publications. The Einhorn-Apotheke was donated to the German Pharmacy Museum in May 2011 , but initially remained in Burg as a loan. From summer 2016 it will be on display in the Apothekerhaus am Aasee in Münster .

The museum also presents artists who are connected to the Bergisches Land in changing exhibitions. In 1996 a retrospective by the artist Erwin Bowien (1899–1972) was shown on the occasion of the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Freundeskreis Erwin Bowien eV .

literature

Web links

Commons : Bergisches Museum Schloss Burg an der Wupper  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ D. Soechting: Castle Burg an der Wupper (Solingen). 2005, p. 12.
  2. ^ E. Lutterbach: Castle Castle on the Wupper. 2003, p. 104.
  3. ^ E. Lutterbach: Castle Castle on the Wupper. 2003, p. 111.
  4. ↑ D. Soechting: Castle Burg an der Wupper (Solingen). 2005, p. 20.
  5. ↑ D. Soechting: Castle Burg an der Wupper (Solingen). 2005, p. 17.
  6. ^ E. Lutterbach: Castle Castle on the Wupper. 2003, p. 102.
  7. ↑ D. Soechting: Castle Burg an der Wupper (Solingen). 2005, p. 19.
  8. ↑ Schlossbauverein Burg ad Wupper (ed.): Members' newspaper. No. 2, 2019, o. P.
  9. ↑ Klaus Nadolski, Gerd Steinert: Opladen: tell old pictures. Sutton. Erfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-86680-388-6 , p. 17.
  10. ↑ New items in 2011/12 on deutsches-apotheken-museum.de, accessed on April 13, 2016.
  11. ↑ Press release "Historische Apotheke" opened in summer 2016 on Bismarckallee in Münster on the website of the Westfalen-Lippe Chamber of Pharmacists , accessed on April 13, 2016.
  12. ↑ Dr. Haroun Ayech: Retrospectives. In: Erwin Johannes Bowien (1899–1972). Dr. Haroun Ayech, 2020, accessed on May 1, 2020 (German).

Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 15.4 ″  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 10 ″  E