Rottenburg Diocesan Museum

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Coordinates: 48 ° 28 ′ 32.7 ″  N , 8 ° 56 ′ 1.1 ″  E

Seminary with diocesan museum in the former monastery church

The Rottenburg Diocesan Museum is one of the oldest diocese museums in Germany. Only the corresponding facilities in Paderborn and Freising are older .

history

Bishop Josef von Lipp founded the Diocesan Museum in 1862 by purchasing the collection of old German paintings from the Rottweiler parish priest Johann Georg Dursch (1800–1881). The collection comprised 71 items and gave a representative cross-section of southern German painting of the 15th and 16th centuries. At first they were housed in two picture rooms of the Episcopal Ordinariate . Under the director and later Bishop Paul Wilhelm Keppler , the collection developed into a museum in the current sense. He expanded the collection to include works of goldsmithing.

The renovation of the former church of the Carmelite monastery and today's seminary , which opened in 1992, made it possible for the first time to present the holdings and special exhibitions in a special room on a permanent basis. The church was rebuilt after the abolition of the monastery and contained several apartments for the cathedral chapter . Under the direction of the architect Eckehard Janofske, the building was gutted and made usable for museum purposes thanks to a self-supporting reinforced concrete structure. The dimensions and structure of the original nave became visible again. Including the installation of the diocesan library in the attic, the renovation cost 10 million euros. The then head Wolfgang Urban was responsible for the presentation.

collection

Palm donkey in the Rottenburg Diocesan Museum

After purchasing the Dursch Collection, the holdings were continuously supplemented and expanded. The aim was also to protect works of art from the area of ​​the diocese from destruction or decay that had been robbed of their liturgical purpose by the secularization or no longer corresponded to the current taste. In the first half of the 20th century, the collection was expanded to include works from the Baroque period , folk art and a nativity scene collection. The museum now has one of the most extensive and important collections of reliquary jars in Germany, spanning from the 2nd to the 20th century. The oldest art object is a reliquary from 700. Historical vestments are also housed in the treasury. In 1993, a large number of other works were added: coins and medals as well as medieval sculptures and baroque works by Joseph Wannenmacher and Johannes Zick . Since 1996 the collection has also included modern works , in particular by Karl Caspar , Otto Dix , Lude Döring , Andy Warhol , Hermann Heintschel , Herbert Falken and Volker Stelzmann . In 2010 another important collection of sculptures from the 15th and 16th centuries was included. The museum also contains the cathedral treasure of the Rottenburg Cathedral of St. Martin as well as countless works of popular piety.

Custodians and leaders

literature

  • Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg, paintings and sculptures 1250–1550 (inventory catalog), edited by Melanie Prange and Wolfgang Urban, ISBN 978-3-7995-0753-0
  • 150 years of the Rottenburg Diocesan Museum, special edition from September 29, 2012, Schwäbisches Tagblatt

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Pfeffer, Anton (1879–1961). In: Estate database. Federal Archives , 2005, accessed on February 1, 2020 .