Bible gallery Meersburg
The Bible gallery Meersburg is a Bible museum in the former Dominican convent in the upper town of Meersburg on Lake Constance . The museum is closed in the winter months.
Monastery building
Monastery time
The Holy Cross Monastery (also known as the “Zur Sammlung” house) emerged from a women's community founded around 1300. In 1309 pastoral care was transferred to the Dominicans in Constance . The sisters of the so-called "collection" lived according to the Augustinian rule (attested in 1369) and had their own chapel in the Meersburg parish church. In the 15th century, many young women from patrician families in Constance, Meersburg and Überlingen joined this convent; it was a time of active building activity for the monastery.
The fact that the Bishop of Constance moved his residence to Meersburg in 1548 shielded the monastery from changes during the Reformation period. In the 17th century, the Holy Cross Monastery was assigned to the Dominican Order, but not incorporated into it. This step was then taken in the 18th century. The monastery obtained its income mainly from viticulture. In 1808 the monastery was closed and the ten Dominican women who lived there were compensated with pensions.
The monastery building was finally designed in 1709. The former monastery church facing Kirchstrasse has five high arched windows. The window frames and corner cuboids are highlighted by painting.
Reuse
Since 1858 the city girls' school (later elementary school) was located in the former monastery buildings. Since the end of the 20th century the building has housed the city museum, tourist office, library and Bible gallery.
Bible experience museum
When the Biblical Gallery opened in June 1988, it was the first biblical adventure museum in Germany and thus had a pilot function. A sign is located in the Stadtgraben alley. The main entrance is in the Stadtgraben / corner of Kunkelgasse. In contrast to conventional Bible museums, this was not just about imparting knowledge, but also about trying things out and sensual impressions. In 2008 the exhibition was redesigned and expanded.
Worlds of experience
The Bible can be experienced through writing in a monastic office , printing with the printing press, stories being told in a Bedouin tent and the scents of the Song of Songs .
The Bible gallery also includes the history of the monastery, among other things through a room of silence , in the center of which there is a replica of a Christ and John group (the original is in the Bode Museum ). Meditation with such a devotional image is characteristic of women's monasteries on Lake Constance in the 14th century. Then there is a mud house that shows how people lived in Jesus' time. An oversized book sculpture from which individual books can be pulled out, because the Bible consists of 77 books.
Bible garden
The freely accessible Bible Garden in the courtyard of Stadtgraben / corner of Kunkelgasse is part of the exhibition concept. It shows an aspect of the biblical world. Mediterranean plants thrive here, benefiting from the warm Lake Constance climate and the sheltered location in the inner courtyard .
The Biblical Gallery has had the legal form of a non-profit GmbH since 2003 . Partners are the Badische Landesbibelgesellschaft, the Protestant church district Überlingen-Stockach and the Mack family from Freiburg. The managing director is Thea Groß.
Special exhibitions
(Selection)
Among the special counted one of Thomas Staubli developed exhibition "dresses in biblical times" in the summer of 2013. A crowd of Egli figures dressed in garments that the current state of knowledge corresponded to clothing in Ancient Near East ( Shasu -Schurz, Wulstsaummantel).
Web links
- Own homepage: Bible gallery Meersburg
- Tourismus Marketing GmbH Baden-Württemberg: Bible Garden, Bible Gallery, Meersburg
- Netmuseum: Bible gallery Meersburg
- Regional studies of Baden-Wuerttemberg: Dominican convent Hl. Kreuz Meersburg
Coordinates: 47 ° 41 ′ 42.6 ″ N , 9 ° 16 ′ 19.6 ″ E
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Reidel, Wolf Deiseroth: City of Meersburg. (= Baden-Württemberg town center atlas. 4.2). Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-89021-009-0 , p. 23.
- ↑ Bible gallery Meersburg: Bible adventure museum on Lake Constance. Program 2018. Leaflet approx. 2018.
- ↑ F. Nigel Hepper: Plant world of the Bible . Ed .: German Bible Society. Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-438-04478-1 , pp. 115-116 .
- ↑ Thomas Staubli: Dresses in Biblical Times . Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-940743-77-0 , pp. 45.49 .