Dreiländermuseum

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Dreiländermuseum
Logo Dreiländermuseum Lörrach.jpg
Data
place Loerrach
Art
history
opening since 1882 changing exhibition locations, since 1978 in today's museum building
Number of visitors (annually) 24,056 (2014)
24,260 (2013)
16,648 (2012)
18,477 (2011)
operator
City of Loerrach
management
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-087314
Dreiländermuseum Loerrach, view on Baslerstrasse
View from the courtyard side

The Dreiländermuseum , from 1978 to 2012 Museum am Burghof , in Lörrach , located in the border triangle of Germany , France and Switzerland , with its permanent exhibition in German and French focuses on the history, present, differences and similarities of the border region of Germany, France and Switzerland . The region on the Upper Rhine with Baden , Alsaceand Northwestern Switzerland are at the center of the transnational profile. The collection, exhibitions, educational offers and the event program are cross-border. Another focus is the collection of South Baden art and ceramic art. As part of the literary memorials of the state of Baden-Württemberg, the museum also has a collection on the life, work and reception of the Alemannic poet Johann Peter Hebel (1760–1826). He lived and worked from 1783 to 1791 as vicar of the preceptor in today's museum building, at that time the Lörracher Pedagogy . The building was built in 1755 and is a cultural monument.

history

Origin of the collection

On the occasion of the city's 200th anniversary, a group of private individuals interested in history compiled historical and folkloric exhibits and presented them in 1882 in what was then Gasthaus Adler. After the anniversary celebrations, the group decided not to distribute the exhibits in the collection again, but founded the Lörracher Altertumsverein to maintain the collection in 1882, chaired by Ernst Rupp.

In 1909 the regional association Badische Heimat was founded with numerous local groups . Now it was possible to hand over the collection to an association that dealt with local history, art and folklore. In 1915 the antiquity association was dissolved and integrated into the Lörrach local group of the Badische Heimat association. The Lörrach local group of the Badische Heimat association with its chairman Ernst Wilhelm Schultz officially took over the collection in 1915. He had already participated in the first exhibition of the exhibits in 1882.

Handover to the city of Lörrach and opening of a museum

In 1923 the collection was permanently presented on the premises of what was then the Sparkasse on Senser Platz. In order to further develop the collection, the local chapter of the Badische Heimat bequeathed the collection to the city of Lörrach in 1927 on the condition that it would look after and expand it. The city of Lörrach granted 2,300 Reichsmarks for maintenance, new purchases and exhibitions and appointed Ernst Wilhelm Schultz as museum custodian.

To support museum work, Ernst Wilhelm Schultz and Julius Wilhelm founded the museum association on March 6, 1928. He asked the city to set up a permanent museum. In 1932 the city of Lörrach kept its promise and the museum was able to open as a local museum in the former margravial cooperage, a baroque building in the courtyard on April 15th. At the opening, the museum presented a special exhibition with the theme “From Lörrach's Past 1682-1800”. By the end of the year, the museum had 1220 visitors. In the years to come, the number of visitors fell below 1000.

In 1939 the museum was closed due to the war and work concentrated on preserving the objects.

post war period

In 1947, at the age of 86, Ernst Wilhelm Schultz handed over management of the museum to Reinhold Weber. However, in 1948, with the consent of the military administration, Schultz organized the first post-war exhibition on the subject of "Revolution 1848" in the gym of the Hebelgymnasium. In 1949 Reinhold Weber resigned and Ernst Wilhelm Schultz took over the office of museum custodian until 1951. In August 1951, the city of Lörrach appointed Alfred Holler (1885–1962) as the new custodian.

In 1953 the local history museum became accessible again. In 1961, Alfred Holler asked the city of Lörrach to be dismissed as curator due to illness. Gerhard Moehring and Philipp Hieber took over the management of the museum on a voluntary basis in 1961 after a decision by the city council. In 1969, Dr. Philipp Hieber returned as curator due to his age and Gerhard Moehring was solely responsible.

In 1975 the baroque building was demolished and the local museum closed. The exhibits were temporarily stored in four municipal buildings. The present museum building was built in 1755 as a tobacco factory. It served as a school from 1761, first under the name of Pädagogium, Progymnasium, then Gymnasium and Hebelgymnasium.

Relocation to today's museum building

After an architecture competition in May 1974, the former Hebelgymnasium (pedagogy) was rebuilt from October 1975 to December 1977 for a total of over 2.8 million marks . The renovation was financed by the city of Lörrach, district savings bank, state aid and employment funds. The building was completely gutted, only the facade remained. The engineering office Flößer and the architecture office Wilhelm were involved in the construction. After the inauguration in April 1978, the museum moved to the newly built museum building. It was also given a new name. The term Heimatmuseum seemed out of date. The name of the museum was named Museum am Burghof.

Dreiländermuseum seen from the courtyard side, the black shaft houses the later installed elevator, with which you can reach every floor of the old building

Until 1991 Gerhard Moehring was a part-time museum director in Lörrach. His son Markus Moehring took over full-time management of the museum at the Burghof in 1991. In order to increase visitor frequency, Moehring set up a generously dimensioned special exhibition area on the first floor. Broad sections of the population in the entire border region should be addressed through tri-national exhibition projects. In 1996 the construction of an external central depot for the collection of 50,000 objects began. At the same time, digital inventory was introduced. The red series of the Lörracher Hefte has been appearing since 1996 , a series of publications focusing on changing topics in the region.

Refurbishment of the museum building

The museum building was rebuilt again in 2002 and partially refurbished by the architects Freuschle and Bühler. The rooms on the upper floor have been modernized and expanded and an administrative area has been separated. An outside elevator was installed to provide barrier-free access to the exhibition rooms. The reason for the renovation was the refurbishment of the permanent exhibition as a three-country exhibition. This permanent exhibition was named ExpoTriRhena. The name was based on the RegioTriRhena, which advocated intensive cross-border work on the Upper Rhine, including in the cultural field.

In spring 2009 Moehring was elected spokesman for the German history museums and was re-elected in May 2012.

In 2010 the windows and roof were energetically refurbished and a controlled ventilation system was installed to create a constant climate for the exhibits. The museum's consistent cross-border work in the area of ​​collection, exhibition and education made it necessary to rename the museum. The trinational profile should also be reflected in the name.

Renamed the Dreiländermuseum

On September 21, 2012, the museum at the Burghof was renamed the Dreiländermuseum . The name now indicates the basic thematic orientation of the museum. The expansion of the museum into a three-country museum and the development of the museums network and the history associations network was funded by the EU from 2012 to 2014 through the INTERREG project B 34 with the project title "Three-country museum - trinational network for history and culture". The Dreiländermuseum was nominated for the Micheletti Award 2015 for the cross-border exhibitions and the cross-border educational work as well as the networks.

Collections

Exhibits in the museum: chopping and cutting knives from the Roman villa near Brombach

Schultz and Wilhelm expanded the collection holdings regionally. Until the 1960s, the permanent exhibition comprised three main areas of collection: religious art, painting and folklore. By moving to a larger building in 1978, a voluntary group around curator Gerhard Moehring was able to expand and expand the collection through new acquisitions and extensive donations on Upper Baden history, art and culture. Since 1991, Markus Moehring has focused on the continuous expansion and expansion of the collection with a trinational character. Since 1995, the collection has been expanded to include exhibits on the political history of the 19th to 21st centuries from Upper Alsace and north-western Switzerland. Currently (2015) the museum collection includes over 50,000 objects on the history and culture of the three-country region, but also on the history of the Markgräflerland and the city of Lörrach. The focus is on the collection on the history of the three countries Germany, France and Switzerland and the collection of South Baden art and ceramics. Only about five percent of the objects are on display in the permanent exhibition. The majority of the collection is kept and looked after in the museum depot. The collection is divided into the following areas:

Cultural-historical and trinational collection

Collection of coats of arms in the courtyard of the museum

The collection on the history of three countries concentrates on an approximate radius of around 100 kilometers around the triangle of Germany, France and Switzerland. It covers the following topics:

  • Collection on the Revolution of 1848
  • Upper Rhine around 1900
  • Collection on the First World War
  • Collection on National Socialism and the post-war period
  • Collection on the topic of border control, escape and smuggling
  • Collection on economic and social history

Collection of South Baden art

The inventory of this collection amounts to around 10,000 objects. It includes painting, graphics, art ceramics and sculptures mostly from South Baden.

South Baden painting

The museum looks after large bequests from Hermann Daur , Adolf Riedlin , August Babberger and Paul Ibenthaler . Numerous works also include Eugen Feger, Erwin Bowien , Karl Gerstner , Adolf Glattacker , Friedrich Kaiser , Volkmar Kötter, Rudolf Kreuter, Hermann Scherer , Rudolf Scheurer , Alban Spitz , Adolf Strübe , Hans Thoma and Eugen Zimmermann .

Printmaking

The Cohen-Umbach-Vogts Foundation should be emphasized here , a collection of the Jewish art connoisseur and Düsseldorf museum man Walter Cohen that was created in Düsseldorf during the Third Reich . Cohen was murdered in Mauthausen concentration camp and his collection was destroyed during the war near the city of Mulhouse in Alsace. Cohen's wife Margret Umbach reconstructed this collection of so-called “degenerate art” after the war together with her husband Richard Vogts. The collection includes around 200 expressionist prints by artists such as Max Beckmann , Wassily Kandinsky , Otto Dix , Käthe Kollwitz and Erich Heckel .

Art ceramics

The ceramic art collection includes around 1000 objects by Richard Bampi and Horst Kerstan, among others . This includes the largest public collection with works by Max Laeuger , the most important German ceramist of Art Nouveau from Lörrach .

plastic

The collection of religious art was promoted by Julius Wilhelm in the 1920s. It contains works from the Upper Rhine late Gothic period. The modern sculpture collection contains several works by Rudolf Scheurer .

Other collections

These include areas of the collection that the museum's founder Ernst Schultz introduced:

  • Folklore collection
  • Collection of posters, postcards, photos, graphics, cartography and archival materials.
  • Collection on prehistory and early history
  • Collection on geology, mineralogy and natural history
  • Rötteln Castle Collection

Literary memorial: Johann Peter Hebel

The Dreiländermuseum is part of the network of literary memorials of the state of Baden-Württemberg. It is dedicated to Johann Peter Hebel (1760–1826), who lived and taught as vicar of the Preceptor from 1783 to 17911 in today's museum building, the former pedagogy. The collection counts more than 1000 volumes with literature by and about Hebel (first editions) and other Alemannic poets, numerous illustrations of Hebel's work, including by Adolf Glattacker. Personal items such as an armchair, wallet and original letters are also located below.

Library

In 1936 Ernst Wilhelm Schultz bequeathed around 2,500 books from his private library to the museum. The scientific reference library currently comprises over 10,000 books and journals. First editions and literature on Johann Peter Hebel, books on South Baden art and regional and natural history in the three-country region and the history of the town of Lörrach.

Collection documentation

The Dreiländermuseum has been recording the collections in the FAUST object database since 1996. There are currently 31,200 objects in the database. Parts of this database are publicly accessible online under the name Collection Database.

Exhibitions

Permanent exhibition

Entrance area of ​​the three-country museum

The three-country exhibition (called Expo TriRhena from 2002 to 2012) is the only consistently transnational permanent exhibition of regional history in Europe. It varies a basic theme in different historical fields: on the one hand it is about the similarities in the three-country region on the Upper Rhine and on the other hand it is about the growing national differences between Germany, France and Switzerland. On 1,000 square meters, the past and present of the three countries are presented in German and French through various topics in a country comparison. The exhibition is interactive with hands-on stations, radio plays, museum cinema and a camera obscura.

The three-country exhibition is divided into four areas:

  • One region: Natural and cultural similarities in the Upper Rhine are discussed. The open and connecting exhibition architecture underlines the sense of togetherness.
  • Three Nations: This area is dedicated to the development of the three nations up to 1918. Floor-to-ceiling partition walls symbolize and support the feeling of separation.
  • 20th century: Various topics are presented here: the effects of the border on people's lives, traditions of freedom, Nazi and post-war times, the economy and language development. In addition, there are two areas from the 19th century: Revolution 1848 and Johann Peter Hebel.
  • Zukunftssteg: The room on the top floor invites you to reflect on the present and future of the three-country region. The camera obscura allows a view of the surrounding area.

Special exhibitions

In addition to the permanent exhibition, the museum regularly shows large special exhibitions on tri-national, regional and integrative topics and various artists.

A selection of the special exhibitions:

  • 2019: Rötteln Castle - rule between Basel and France
  • 2018/19: turn of the century 1918/19
  • 2017/18: Reformations - The great upheaval in the Upper Rhine
  • 2017: The fascination of bicycles - from the draisine to the e-bike
  • 2016: A rich heritage - industrial culture in three countries
  • 2016: Warehouse history. The stolen success of the Jewish button empire
  • 2014/15: Max Laeuger overall. Art. plant
  • 2014: The First World War - the torn region
  • 2013: Lörrach and National Socialism
  • 2012/13: At the table in Alsace, Baden and Switzerland
  • 2011: An interview with Hans Thoma
  • 2010: "Before everyone's eyes!" - The deportation of the Lörrach Jews
  • 2010/11: Ice Age on the Upper Rhine
  • 2010: August Babberger - The Baden Expressionist
  • 2010: Johann Peter Hebel - a moving spirit, moving life. The interactive literature exhibition for the 250th birthday
  • 2009: The Upper Rhine around 1900 - Departure where?
  • 2008/09: "degenerate - destroyed - reconstructed". Famous expressionists in the "Cohen-Umbach-Vogts" collection
  • 2008: Everything in the flow - Tout baigne Wiese, Birs & Ill
  • 2007: Mythical places on the Upper Rhine
  • 2004/05: CRAZY REGIO EN FOLIE. Fasnacht - Fasnet - Carnaval
  • 2001: To Russia and back
  • 1998: Nationality separates - freedom connects
  • 1996: Turkish life in Lörrach
  • 1995: After the war / Après la querre

literature

  • Compiled by Fritz Wilhelm: Museum am Burghof. Information sheet on the conversion of the old Hebelgymnasium into a museum for the city of Lörrach.
  • Markus Moehring: The Dreiländermuseum - cross-border cultural center with an eventful history. In: The Markgräflerland. Volume 2016, pp. 65-89.
  • Markus Moehring: The museum at the Burghof in Lörrach: history, collections, tasks. In: Das Markgräflerland, issue 2/1995, pp. 65–74, digitized version of the Freiburg University Library

Web links

Commons : Dreiländermuseum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. Appendix to the 2013 annual review, Dreiländermuseum Lörrach, The Museum in Figures
  3. Annual review 2012, Dreiländermuseum Lörrach, p. 13.
  4. Annual review 2012, Dreiländermuseum Lörrach, p. 13.
  5. ^ Markus Moehring: The Dreiländermuseum and the trinational networks on the Upper Rhine. In: Museum Studies. Volume 78, 2013, p. 47.
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  7. '' Collection> Johann Peter Hebel> Literary Memorial '' . Dreiländermuseum website. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  8. dreilaendermuseum.eu
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  10. ^ Gerhard Moehring: 70 years of the Lörrach Museum Association. A documentation. In: Badische Heimat. Issue April / 1, 1999, p. 199.
  11. Markus Moehring: From the antiquity association to the three-country museum. In: Lörrach 2012, yearbook with picture chronicle, ed. by Wolfgang Göckel, Andreas Lauble, Waldemar Lutz, Markus Moehring et al., 2012, p. 64.
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  14. ^ Gerhard Moehring: 70 years of the Lörrach Museum Association. A documentation. In: Badische Heimat. Issue April / 1, 1999, p. 202.
  15. ^ Gerhard Moehring: 70 years of the Lörrach Museum Association. A documentation. In: Badische Heimat. Issue April / 1, 1999, p. 204.
  16. Markus Moehring: From the Heimatmuseum to the ExpoTriRhena: The Museum at the Burghof in Lörrach. In: Badische Heimat. Volume 4, pp. 771-773.
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  21. ^ Fritz Wilhelm (ed.): Museum am Burghof. Conversion of the old Hebelgymnasium into a museum for the city of Lörrach. Lörrach 1978, see foreword by the client Egon Hugenschmidt, Lord Mayor.
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  23. ^ Fritz Wilhelm (ed.): Museum am Burghof. Conversion of the old Hebelgymnasium into a museum for the city of Lörrach. Lörrach 1978, see chronology of the renovation.
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  28. Publications of the Dreiländermuseum , accessed on October 12, 2013.
  29. Markus Moehring: From the Heimatmuseum to the ExpoTriRhena: The Museum at the Burghof in Lörrach. In: Badische Heimat. Issue 4, pp. 771, 774.
  30. Markus Moehring: From the antiquity association to the three-country museum. In: Lörrach 2012, yearbook with picture chronicle, ed. by Wolfgang Göckel, Andreas Lauble, Waldemar Lutz, Markus Moehring et al., 2012, p. 69.
  31. "Markus Moehring represents the history museums" . Website Badische Zeitung. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
  32. ^ "Lörrach's museum director continues to be spokesman for the German history museums" . Press information: Maike van der Gabel, City of Loerrach, on May 10, 2012. REGIO TRENDS website. Published on May 10, 2012 - 1:55 pm. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
  33. "Funding made possible energetic renovation in the Museum am Burghof" . Press information: Angelika Messer, Department of Culture and Media, City of Lörrach from September 1, 2010. REGIO TRENDS website. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
  34. "New start with a ceremony" . Published by Claudia Gabler, September 24th, 2012 01: 4. Südkurier website. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
  35. "B34 - Dreiländermuseum - Trinational Network for History and Culture" ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2015 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. . Website of the INTERREG IV Upper Rhine funding program, Projects> Accepted Projects> Focus B. Accessed on March 3, 2015.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.interreg-oberrhein.eu
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  40. "Witness of a turning point" . Website Badische Zeitung, published on August 28, 2012. Retrieved on March 4, 2015.
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  43. Markus Moehring, Barbara Hauß (ed.): Degenerate - destroyed - reconstructed, The "Cohen-Umbach-Vogts" collection. (= Lörracher Hefte - Rote Schriftenreihe des Museum am Burghof. Issue 9). Lörrach 2008, ISBN 978-3-922107-78-1 .
  44. Markus Moehring, Antje M. Lechleiter (ed.): Famous Expressionists - Works from the Collection of the Museum am Burghof. (= Lörracher Hefte - Rote Schriftenreihe des Museum am Burghof. Issue 2). Loerrach 1997.
  45. ^ "Collection> Art> Art Ceramics" . Dreiländermuseum website. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
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  49. ^ "Collection> Museum Library" . Dreiländermuseum website. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
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  53. "Exhibitions> Permanent Exhibition> Exhibition Rooms" . Dreiländermuseum website. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  54. "Committed to the idea of ​​tolerance" . Website Badische Zeitung. Published on May 15, 2010 by Nikolaus Trenz. Retrieved March 4, 2015.
  55. "If there's a fire: I'll chömme! 150 years of the Loerrach volunteer fire brigade ” . Dreiländermuseum website. Retrieved on March 5, 2015. "" Hättsch des dänggd? "75 Years of Fools' Guild Lörrach" . Dreiländermuseum website. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  56. "Exhibitions> Archive" . Dreiländermuseum website. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  57. "Seminar Museum for the Region - Federal Academy for Cultural Education / Museum Department: Intercultural and visitor-oriented examples of integrative exhibition concepts in regional museums" . Website working group for empirical educational research (AfeB). Speaker Markus Moehring, 2002. Accessed March 4, 2015.

Coordinates: 47 ° 36 '35.48 "  N , 7 ° 39' 35.63"  O