European Hanseatic Museum

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The European Hanseatic Museum in Lübeck

The European Hansemuseum is located in Lübeck in the south-east of Schleswig-Holstein and shows the history of the Hanseatic League . The museum opened in May 2015.

Location

Lübeck: European Hanseatic Museum. Access from the street behind the castle
European Hanseatic Museum in Lübeck: connecting stairs. In the middle is the entrance to the museum reception hall
Entrance area, 2015
View from the Hansemuseum, panorama of the port between lift bridge and swing bridge

The museum is located at Untertrave 1 in the northern old town . An air raid shelter from World War II and a seaman's home previously stood here . The castle monastery and the Marstall and castle gate are in the immediate vicinity . Further entrances to the museum area are on the street Hinter der Burg and on the Große Burgstraße . The entrance to the entrance hall of the museum is in the middle of the staircase that leads from the level of the street An der Untertrave to the higher level of the castle monastery.

History of origin

financing

Construction site, 2013
Excavation site in the basement, 2015

The citizens of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck decided in July 2010 to allow the construction of a Hanseatic Museum. Years of deliberation and discussions preceded the decision. The demolition of the previous buildings at the site began in January 2012. Completion was originally planned for autumn 2013. It has meanwhile been postponed to 2014 on the 34th Hanseatic Day of Modern Times in Lübeck. Extensive archaeological finds have led to a further postponement of the opening until May 2015.

A budget of EUR 27 million (January 2012) was originally planned for clearing the construction area and the construction of the building and the interior fittings. The budget planning in the meantime assumed a requirement of 32 million euros (February 2013), 37 million euros (April 2014), 42 million euros (October 2014) and 45 million euros (January 2015). Of the original 32 million euros, 22.6 million euros were to be provided by the Lübeck Possehl Foundation and 9.4 million euros by the state of Schleswig-Holstein (European Union's Economic Future Program , European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)). Approx. The purchase of the property cost 2 million euros and the road renovations in front of the museum around 2.5 million euros. These costs were covered by the Possehl Foundation. The Hanseatic City of Lübeck will contribute to the running costs of the museum with up to 400,000 euros per year (50,000 euros in cash, 350,000 euros by providing staff). The rest of the costs that are not covered by income are borne by the Possehl Foundation.

Construction work

For the Hansemuseum, the archaeological museum in the confessional house of the castle monastery was closed to avoid redundancies with the Hansemuseum. It existed from 2005 to 2011. 1,600 square meters of usable area of ​​the total area are allocated to the new building of the museum, a further 2,400 square meters to the castle monastery. The total area covers about 7000 square meters.

The Hansemuseum was the meeting place for the foreign ministers of the G7 countries in April 2015 . It was officially opened on May 27, 2015 by Chancellor Angela Merkel . Museum operations began on May 30, 2015.

Exhibition concept

The architect Andreas Heller was commissioned with the planning and construction up to the museum concept . The scientific conception of the exhibition lay with the Hanseatic researcher Rolf Hammel-Kiesow . The complete opening scene of the “ NEWA ” set was built by Filmbau Decotec and shows long-distance trade merchants on their way to Novgorod . The easternmost office of the Hanseatic League was located there from the middle of the 13th century. The so-called Peterhof had its own constitution, the Schra , and existed as an office of the Hanseatic League until 1494. Other scenes in the museum were largely created by the Babelsberg film studio in Potsdam.

The content-related concept was discussed controversially between those responsible and the interested specialist public. In addition to the traditional presentation of original finds, typical situations from the Hanseatic era are also staged. Critics see this as “invented worlds”, while supporters point out that the productions are based on scientific knowledge.

In 2016, 113,000 people visited the house, in 2017 114,000 visitors came and in 2018 there were 103,000 interested people. On September 6, 2019, the museum recorded the total of 500,000. Visitors.

operator

The building owner and operator of the museum is not the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, but a non-profit GmbH . On April 1, 2015, Lisa Kosok , until then director of the Museum of Hamburg History , was appointed director of the Hansemuseum. She was succeeded in October 2015 as managing director by Felicia Sternfeld, who had been director of the Lübeck Theater Puppet Museum since December 2014 .

Permanent exhibition on the Hanseatic League

The tour begins with the representation of the exposed foundations and the slope support from earlier centuries. The archaeological finds discovered during the clearing of the construction site were included in the tour through an accessible excavation site. The excavations show 1200 years of city history.

The museum presents the development of the merchants' Hanseatic League and the subsequent Städtehanse in chronological order. Luebian law and its history are another focus of the exhibition. The tour over 400 years of Hanseatic history shows in large dioramas the trade of the Low German merchants in Novgorod , Lübeck in the 13th century, the Hanseatic office in Bruges , the Stalhof in London , the office on Tyske Brygge in Bergen, Norway, and a Hanseatic day in 1518 in Lübeck .

A typical Hanseatic cog with barrels is on display in one room. The central role of the Lübeck merchants for the business of the Low German merchants is shown in the trade from Lübeck to Gotland and later from Gotland to Novgorod . In Novgorod an elderly man was elected to represent the Low German merchants. Furs, beeswax etc. were exchanged for cloth and wine etc. from the Low German merchants on the open market. The value of the exchange goods was converted and offset. There were summer and winter drivers to Novgorod who stayed there continuously from May to September and September to May. After the agreement of trade security, the presence of the Low German merchants on site was replaced by trading from their home offices.

The Hanseatic League appeared for the first time as a political community in 1358. The Duke of Flanders had increased the taxes on trade in Bruges , Flanders . Thereupon the Hanseatic League decided a joint boycott of the trading center Bruges. In the event of a violation, the members of the Hanseatic League were threatened with expulsion from the Hanseatic League. Hamburg joined the Hanseatic League at this time.

One room is dedicated to the onset of the plague in Europe. Here the geographical course of the spread of the plague is shown. The plague epidemic spread over the course of several years from Asia to southern Europe, northern Europe and ultimately to Moscow . About a third of the population died. The consequences were inflation and economic decline, but also the accumulation of capital.

The Hanseatic Day of 1518 is shown in one room. The representation of the Hanseatic Day is shown using a replica of a segment in the Hanseatic Hall of Lübeck's town hall. Information on the rank disputes and the topics of the Hanseatic League are given. Life in the office in London, where English cloth was exchanged, is shown. The office in London existed until 1598.

A gathering of Dominican monks is shown on the way back towards the first floor of the reception hall. The second part of the exhibition on the European Hanseatic League is located in the rooms of the old castle monastery. Here you can get a glimpse of the Bergen office and its most important export product, stockfish . The jury's court , which was built between 1893 and 1896, can also be visited.

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Movies

See also

Web links

Commons : European Hansemuseum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lübeck city newspaper, August 24, 2010
  2. ↑ Lübeckische Blätter , issue 2/2012 p. 24 ff. (PDF; 873 kB)
  3. ↑ Figures from Lübecker Nachrichten, August 24, 2014, p. 11, October 17, 2014, p. 12 and January 29, 2015, p. 11
  4. ↑ Lübecker Nachrichten, January 29, 2015, p. 11
  5. ↑ Lübecker Nachrichten, October 15, 2014, p. 16
  6. ↑ ndr.de ( Memento from May 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) May 27, 2015
  7. ↑ Citizens 'news, magazine of the citizens' initiative Rettet Lübeck No. 110, September / October 2012, p. 23
  8. ↑ Record: Lübeck Hansemuseum welcomes 500,000. Visitors. Retrieved October 18, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Lübecker Nachrichten of February 27, 2015
  10. ↑ Surprising change in the Hansemuseum ( Memento from September 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), NDR online from September 25, 2015, accessed on September 25, 2015
  11. ↑ Team - European Hanseatic Museum. In: European Hanseatic Museum. Retrieved December 29, 2016 .
  12. ^ Andreas Heller, Lübecker Nachrichten, August 24, 2014
  13. ↑ Lübecker Nachrichten, October 17, 2014, p. 12 and January 29, 2015, p. 11

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