Ice Age House

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The logo of the Ice Age House in Flensburg
The Ice Age House, Flensburg (2012)
The Ice Age House in Christiansenpark with spring flowers (2007)

The Ice Age House is the geological show magazine of the Natural Science Museum Flensburg and is located in the coach house in Christiansenpark .

History of the Ice Age House

The museum emerged from the important geological-paleontological collection of the Flensburg teacher Hans Philippsen, which was accessible to the interested public from 1913.

After several moves of the museum and its collections within the Fördestadt, the geological and paleontological collections were finally moved from 1997 to a historical building in Christiansenpark, today's Ice Age house. In addition, in 2005 there were loans from collectors who had presented their objects in the Ice Age Museum in Bordesholm and which now resides there in Lütjenburg after it was closed. Today the debris as well as the geological, archaeological and mineral collections including fossils are kept in the Ice Age House in Flensburg . Parts of it are presented in showcases.

The then Mayor of Flensburg, Hermann Stell, opened the foam magazine on August 2, 2002 and since April 2006 it has been open as an Ice Age house with an exhibition area of ​​167 m² two days a week. It is looked after by volunteers.

According to its name, information about the Ice Age with regional reference is conveyed. In addition, as an Ice Age house, the building offers detailed insights into the history of the earth and its environment by presenting fossils from the Cambrian to Quaternary geological ages . In 2011 around 4400 people visited the Ice Age House, including over a third children. Ice Age House and Natural Science Museum are approx. 400 m from each other by foot.

Collections of the Ice Age House

The geological collection was the starting point for the development of the museum and thus also of the Ice Age house. It has grown steadily since then. The majority of the objects come from the Flensburg area including the adjacent Danish area. The crystalline debris originally came from the entire Scandinavian region and was deposited by the glaciers of the Quaternary Ice Ages in the Flensburg area.

The fossil collections are the result of intensive collections, especially by Walther Emeis , Löwe, Paulus Paulsen, Hans Philippsen and Alfred Zachau from Flensburg and, more recently, by Rolf Bertling (Achterwehr), Helmut Köller (Kiel), Ulrich Meisinger (Flensburg) and Helmut Meier (Schuby). Axel Paulsen (Altenholz-Stift), W. Bilz ( Eckernförde ) and Holger Tüxen (Schiöl) have made other outstanding finds from the region available on loan.

Trilobite Chasmops, Philippsen Collection.

The crystalline collection can also be traced back to the people mentioned above and (after 2000) to Dr. Renate Jeske ( Rendsburg ), Raymond Perry (Frörup) and Hildegard Wilske (Flensburg). It includes exhibits weighing up to several tons, most of which are presented in the adjacent erratic garden .

Other exhibits

The study collection also includes artifacts that go back to various collections in Flensburg and the surrounding area. These include the collection of Stone Age objects by Hans Philippsen as well as a large number of finds from the Flensburg harbor area. The archaeological collection is not expanded through collections initiated by the museum itself or by the museum. Artifacts are exceptionally accepted if they complement the existing collection in a justifiable manner. Otherwise, the collection of artifacts is primarily the responsibility of the State Archaeological Museum in Schleswig .

Diagrams, texts and models of prehistoric animals complete the offer, as do maps, information walls on the amber forest and plate tectonics and interactive boards. Short films introduce the topic of the “Ice Age” and extend beyond the region.

Large-scale models of primeval creatures in the Ice Age house, here a cephalopod

Events and offers

Special exhibitions

Special exhibitions are presented in glass showcases, for example on fossil corals from Gotland or trilobites and cephalopods in attachments from the region. These loan exhibits mostly come from the private collections of the volunteer members.

Events

Events on natural history topics take place all year round:

  • During the “fossil consultation hour”, experts regularly identify and assess the visitors' finds.
  • Botanical and zoological walks through Christiansenpark start at the Ice Age House. During the “ bat evenings” in summer, the flying mammals can be observed hunting night insects.
  • Experts provide instruction on insect observations in your own garden.
  • The bird world of Christiansenpark and its surroundings is presented through guided tours.
  • For children of different ages there are hands-on activities on changing topics on offer during the holidays.
  • School classes and school groups can learn more about the Ice Age, fossils and stones through guided tours and other events . Extensive museum educational material is available.
  • A program is offered for children's birthdays.

Special promotions

Since 2008
  • The museum offers half-day, so-called “beach walks”, during which the participants learn about the ice ages and the rocks ( boulders , debris) transported here from the glaciers on suitable coastlines in the region . The beach hikes are organized by the biologist Dr. Frank Rudolph, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel .
    Boulder collecting on the cliff near Skelde, Denmark
Since 2009
  • are for children z. B. treasure hunts, children's birthdays and fossil identification days are offered, in the summer months outside the Ice Age house.
  • According to an initiative of the Natural Science Museum, the Flensburg museums hold museum days in the CITTI Park every year with selected exhibits and educational offers.
Since 2010
  • the house is also a destination for those interested in geocaching . The "Ice Age" and "Creepy Graves" caches are the goals here.

Outdoor area

In consultation with the monument protection authority and the Freundeskreis Christiansenpark e. V. set up a boulder garden with large attachments, some of which are known nationwide. For example, a 1.7 billion year old and eleven ton heavy Småland granite from central Sweden, which was found during road construction work in the north of Flensburg, a wind chaser and a 1.8 billion year old limestone block. A small garden with insect-friendly plants and an insect wall with nesting facilities for insects are used for museum educational activities.

literature

  • Willfried Janssen: Walther Emeis 1891-1973 - its importance for local research and nature conservation in Schleswig-Holstein. In: Die Heimat, Volume 98, Issue 6/7, June / July 1991, pages 157–162.
  • Werner Barkemeyer: The Ice Age House in Flensburg. In: Der Geschiebesammler, Volume 39, Issue 3, September 2006, pages 89–90
  • Werner Barkemeyer: The Natural Science Museum Flensburg. In: Natural and regional studies. Journal for Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Mecklenburg. 119th year 2012, pp. 65–76.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walther Emeis: The natural history museum of the city of Flensburg. In: Die Heimat No. 5, 1964 (71st volume), pp. 163–167
  2. ^ Werner Barkemeyer: Museum Concept. unpublished document, October 2011
  3. ^ Werner Barkemeyer: Museum Concept. unpublished document, October 2011

Web links

Commons : Ice Age House  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Coordinates: 54 ° 47 ′ 9 ″  N , 9 ° 25 ′ 35 ″  E