German Huguenot Museum Bad Karlshafen
 German Huguenot Museum |
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| place | Bad Karlshafen , Hesse |
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| opening | 1980 |
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Huguenot Museum Bad Karlshafen eV
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-071918 |
The German Huguenot Museum Bad Karlshafen is a museum on the history of the Huguenots and Waldensians . It is located in the north Hessian city of Bad Karlshafen . The museum is supported by the Huguenot Museum Bad Karlshafen eV association
History of the museum
Karlshafen was founded in 1699 by Landgrave Karl von Hessen-Kassel as an exile town for the settlement of Huguenots, Protestant religious refugees from France, at the confluence of the Diemel and the Weser . Efforts were made to set up a museum in the Huguenot city as early as the 1930s. It should represent the tradition and history of the Huguenots and Waldensians in a suitable way. It did not happen then because the circumstances of the time did not allow it.
Only the efforts of the Karlshafen couple Kelly-Suchier and the chairman of the German Huguenot Association Friedrich Centurier succeeded in opening a museum in 1980 in a former Karlshafen packing house. Dean Jochen Desel became the honorary museum director . In order to expand the exhibition space, the museum moved to the former Baurmeister'sche tobacco factory on Hafenplatz, which was renovated for this purpose. There are 500 m² on two floors for documenting the history of the Huguenots and their descendants in France and Germany.
Museum departments
Huguenots in France
The first floor is dedicated to the beginnings of the Huguenot movement in France, the Reformation and the Calvinist church order, the wars of religion and persecution. The everyday life of the Huguenots and Waldensians in their homeland is also taken into account. You can see u. a. Ceramic plates and vessels by the Huguenot potter and philosopher Bernard Palissy , who died as a martyr in the Bastille state prison in Paris in 1589/90 . The simulated classroom of a Waldensian school with original benches and desks from the Piedmontese Waldensian valleys is also part of the exhibition.
A portrait of the Huguenot confessor Marie Durand and the facsimile of her “resister” carved into the stone in the prison tower of Aigues Mortes lead to Louis XIV of France. In 1685, the "Sun King" triggered the flight of many Huguenots from their homeland with his Edict of Fontainebleau .
Huguenots in Germany
On the second floor of the museum, the life of the Huguenot religious refugees in Germany is shown using examples from different immigration provinces. The focus is on Hessen and, above all, Karlshafen. The Huguenot doctor and pharmacist Jacques Galland was the first to recognize the value of brine and to lay the foundation for the Karlshafen brine bath.
A stocking knitting chair, tools for making gloves and processing tobacco and valuable silver vessels are exhibited as examples of products of Huguenot handicraft.
The etchings by the Berlin graphic artist Daniel Chodowiecki (1726–1801), books by the novelist and essayist Theodor Fontane (1819–1898) and portraits of Huguenot scholars are representative of the special achievements of Huguenots in art and science .
Museum education
Guided tours in German, French and English are offered especially for school classes. “Hands-on stations” are intended to make a visit to the museum interesting for young people. Audio guides are available for French museum guests.
Special exhibitions
Separate rooms are available in the museum building for temporary exhibitions. Every year special exhibitions are shown that deal with topics such as displacement, migration and integration in a very broad framework.
Other facilities
The museum building houses the extensive Huguenot library on the history of the Huguenots, with national and international journals, a genealogical center for researching Huguenot family histories and a picture archive.
Virtual museum
A picture gallery has been set up on the Huguenot Museum's homepage that contains digitized copperplate engravings and the like. a. offers on the following topics:
- Huguenot portraits
- The history of the Huguenots according to Chodowiecki
- The reformer John Calvin
- The Huguenot Wars after Romeyn de Hooghe , Jan Luyken and Matthäus Merian
- Iconoclasts
- 10 Commandments Chalkboards
- Supper stamps (Méreaux)
- The Bartholomew Night
- Huguenot outdoor services
- The escape of the Huguenots
- The reception of the Huguenots in German territories
- Huguenot edicts
- Huguenot Crosses
Karlshafen museum trail and museum rally
The museum trail leads through the historic city center of Bad Karlshafen with its baroque architecture up to the Huguenot tower built in 1913 on the Hessian cliffs. A “museum rally” by bus or car is offered as a round trip with various routes through the neighboring Huguenot and Waldensian villages around the Reinhardswald .
literature
- Jochen Desel (Ed.): German Huguenot Museum, Bad Karlshafen. Museum guide. Publishing house of the German Huguenot Society, Bad Karlshafen 2010, ISBN 978-3-930481-32-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 32.6 ″ N , 9 ° 27 ′ 9.6 ″ E