Diocesan Museum Freising
.jpg) The diocesan museum before the renovation |
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| place | Freising |
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| opening | 1974 |
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-048913 |
The Diocesan Museum Freising (also Dombergmuseum ) on the Domberg in Freising is the diocesan museum of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising . It is one of the largest church museums in the world.
history
The donation of the collections of the theologian and art historian Joachim Sighart in 1857 and Heinrich Gotthard in 1864 formed the basis of the museum's collections, which were further expanded in the following decades. The Archbishop of Munich and Freising Julius Cardinal Döpfner arranged for a museum to be built under the auspices of the Archdiocese.
The inventory has increased to around 16,000 works today. It is therefore considered to be one of the largest ecclesiastical museums in the world, after the Vatican Museums . The museum shows on 4,800 m² of exhibition space u. a. Works by historically significant artists such as Erasmus Grasser , Jan Polack , Hans Leinberger , Lucas Cranach , Cosmas Damian Asam , Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo , Johann Baptist Straub , Christopher Paudiß and Ignaz Günther , but also modern artists such as Alexej von Jawlensky or Rupprecht Geiger .
In addition to paintings, icons (e.g. the Freising Luke picture ) and sculptures, coins and medals, vestments and works of religious folk art are also on display. The nativity scene collection and a room installation by Mischa Kuball are housed in the basement . The museum regularly held special exhibitions and was visited by around 30,000 visitors each year until it closed.
Museum building
The Diocesan Museum was opened in November 1974 in the building of the former Archbishop's College for Boys, which was previously empty.
Boys' seminary building
In 1870 Matthias Berger built the boys' seminar in the west of the Freising Cathedral Hill, on the site of the former St. Andreas collegiate monastery . This building in neoclassical style was given an octagonal extension in 1876/77, which served as a toilet tower. The priestly training in the neighboring seminary was relocated to Munich in 1968, and so the preparatory training in the boys' seminary could no longer be carried out in the old way. This building, which was designed to accommodate schoolchildren, was now empty and could be used as a museum.
Closure and renovation planning
On July 6, 2013, the Diocesan Museum was unexpectedly closed. As a justification, reference was made to a modernization of the house under fire protection law. According to a report in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the main reason is that the Diocesan Museum has not had a license to operate a museum since it opened in 1974. The structural condition made a general renovation of the building necessary. The time until the reopening will be used for research on the collection objects and for increased cooperation with other museums. The redesign provides for a downsizing of the permanent exhibition in favor of special exhibitions.
The design by the Berlin office of Gerkan, Marg and Partner was presented as the winner of the architectural competition in February 2017. After a petition from the city administrator, the city council of Freising discussed the demolition of the octagon extension again at the end of 2017, although the archdiocese's building application was not legally objectionable. The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation had approved the demolition of the extension and the building committee had also approved the demolition. The renovation work on the museum should last from July 2018 to mid-2021 (as of June 2018); the octagon extension will be demolished.
Directors of the museum
- from 1974 to 1979 Sigmund Benker
- from 1979 to 2007 Peter B. Steiner
- from 2007 to 2011 Sylvia Hahn
- since 2012 Christoph Kurzeder , theologian and folklorist.
Web links
- Official website
- Diocesan Museum building project on the website of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising
Individual evidence
- ↑ Diözesanmuseum Freising ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. . (PDF; 1.7 MB) Special edition for the 30th anniversary, p. 12. Online at kunstreferat.de.
- ^ Freising Diocesan Museum closes until further notice
- ↑ Culture: Decades without permission ( Memento from July 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ). Online on Süddeutsche.de from July 11, 2013.
- ↑ Director Christoph Kurzeder on the situation of the Diocesan Museum Freising and the status of the renovation work as well as the chances of the current closure. Video, 7:30 min
- ↑ Decision in the architecture competition , accessed on September 24, 2017.
- ↑ Dispute over the toilet tower , accessed on September 24, 2017.
- ↑ Petra Schnirch: For 215 million euros: Archdiocese redesigned Domberg. In: www.sueddeutsche.de. June 13, 2018, accessed June 13, 2018 .
- ↑ The art historian has been working as a freelance artist for the Diocesan Museum since 1983, since 1989 as the deputy of the director at the time and since 2007 as the museum director. Among other things, she was responsible for the exhibitions “Paradise. New Looks at an Old Dream ”and“ Angels. Mediator between heaven and earth ”.
- ↑ New director for the Diocesan Museum in Freising. (No longer available online.) Archdiocese of Munich and Freising press office, December 29, 2011, archived from the original on December 27, 2012 ; Retrieved December 28, 2012 . 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. ; Sabine Reithmaier: Immaculate conception in a stress-free space: The theologian and folklorist Christoph Kurzeder has been head of the Diözesanmuseum Freising, one of the largest of its kind in the world , since January 1st , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung January 26, 2012, p. R 12.
Coordinates: 48 ° 23 '56.3 " N , 11 ° 44' 36" E