Funding Association of the Museum of Surveying Technology
The aim of the Förderkreis Vermessungstechnisches Museum is to support the research and presentation of the history of surveying technology. One of the main tasks is to take care of the surveying history collection in the Museum for Art and Cultural History of the City of Dortmund . Alongside the Deutsches Museum in Munich, the surveying equipment collection is the most important collection of its kind. The Förderkreis is a non-profit organization.
History of the support group and the surveying museum
The exhibitions "Measurements Above and Underground" in 1962 and "Praxis Geometriae" in 1969 and 1970 were dedicated to surveying technology and formed the first starting points for the conception and establishment of a surveying museum. German Geodetic Day of the German Association for Surveying (DVW), organized together with the German Markscheiderverein (DMV) in the Dortmund town hall.
The exhibition "Praxis Geometriae" took place in 1969 at the annual general meeting of the Association of German Surveying Engineers (VDV) in the Dortmund city hall and was repeated in 1970 in the city savings bank of the city of Solingen. On the occasion of the XIII. Congress of the International Association of Surveying Engineers (GEO '71 / FIG) the exhibition "5000 Years of Surveying" was presented in the Wiesbaden Municipal Museum. From 1973 it was shown permanently in the Museum am Westpark in Dortmund and thus forms the nucleus for the surveying museum. With the establishment of the support group on November 21, 1975, the future-proof development of the exhibition was ensured. The permanent collection has been in the Museum for Art and Cultural History of the City of Dortmund since 1985.
For the 500 years old birthday of the universal scholar Gerhard Mercator in 2012, the Museum of Art and Cultural History and the sponsoring group showed selected aspects of Mercator's work and its effects on development in the special exhibition 500 Years of Gerhard Mercator - From the Renaissance of the World to the Modern Map in cartography and navigation. The exhibition comprised approx. 750 exhibits and was accompanied by over 100 special events. Klaus Töpfer was the patron .
Tasks of the sponsorship group
In addition to the technical support of the surveying technology museum in the Museum of Art and Cultural History, the support group runs a special library on topics related to surveying history. The sponsorship group collects instruments, devices, maps and documents on the history of surveying technology. He supports scientific publications and research contributions etc. a. through its own series of publications and provides work and planning aids.
Every three years the support group holds a symposium on the history of surveying. The lectures will be published under the same title in the series of publications of the sponsoring group.
| year | theme |
|---|---|
| 1981 | From the commons to today's private property |
| 1984 | Surveying and Cultural History |
| 1987 | Engineering surveying from antiquity to modern times |
| 1990 | Development of rural land management in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia |
| 1993 | Law and Surveying - Property Protection through the Ages |
| 1996 | Europe is growing together |
| 1999 | Pioneer in German national surveying |
| 2002 | No zoning without surveying - a cultural-historical consideration |
| 2005 | From Giza to DESY , 5000 years of applied geometry |
| 2008 | Heinrich Friedrich Karl Imperial Baron from and to the stone |
| 2011 | Gerhard Mercator on his 500th birthday |
| 2014 | Milestones in instrument making |
| 2017 | Friedrich Robert Helmert on the 100th anniversary of his death |
Eratosthenes Prize
As a rule, the sponsoring group awards the Eratosthenes Prize every two years for outstanding work in the field of historical research in surveying, in particular for theses and dissertations. Since 2011, the Eratosthenes Prize has been awarded for outstanding book publications that bring scientific knowledge from historical surveying to the public.
Previous winners:
- 2001 - Frank Reichert
- 2003 - Manfred Spata
- 2003 - Bernhard Zimmermann
- 2005 - Jana Niederöst
- 2005 - Maik Ullrich
- 2007 - Mario Bauch
- 2009 - Rudolf Hafeneder
- 2011 - Dieter Lelgemann , geodesist and science historian - honorary award
- 2011 - Martin Rickenbacher
- 2013 - Wolfgang Torge , Geodät - Honorary Award
- 2017 - Markus Rembold
- 2019 - David March
- 2019 - Erich Weiß , Geodät - Honorary Award
Club structure
The general assembly, the board of directors and the board of trustees are the organs of the support group. The sponsorship group is headed by the president. Peter Mesenburg has been President since 2014. His predecessors were Harald Lucht (1987–2014) and the first chairman Siegfried Stahnke (1975–1987). The board of trustees makes recommendations and supports the board professionally and in public relations. Harald Schuh has been the Chairman of the Board of Trustees since 2016 . His predecessors were Bertold Witte (2009–2016), Wolfgang Torge (1998–2009), Hartmut Dieterich (1981–1997) and Albrecht Timm (1975–1981).
literature
- Kurt Kröger (Ed.): 25 years of the Förderkreis Vermessungstechnisches Museum eV Chmielorz, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-87124-243-8 .
- Manfred Gombel: designers and mechanics of geodetic instruments. A compilation. Series of publications of the Association for the Measurement of Technology Museum, Volume 32, Dortmund 2002.
- Publication series of the Förderkreis Vermessungstechnisches Museum eV Retrieved on February 11, 2017 .
- Museum for Art and Cultural History of the City of Dortmund (Ed.): Surveying History , Museum Handbook Part 2 . 3rd, revised edition. Dortmund 2009, ISBN 3-00-028449-4 .
- Ingo von Stillfried (Ed.): 500 years of Mercator . Chmielorz, Dortmund 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-037286-5 .
- Erich Weiß (Hrsg.): Milestones in instrument making . Dortmund 2014.
Web links
- Homepage of the Association of Surveying Technology Museum
- Förderkreis Vermessungstechnisches Museum eV: 500 years of Gerhard Mercator - From the world view of the Renaissance to the map of the modern age. Retrieved February 11, 2017 .
- Literature published by the Förderkreis Vermessungstechnisches Museum in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Förderkreis Vermessungsstechnisches Museum: Statutes. (PDF) Retrieved February 11, 2017 .
- ^ City of Dortmund: Description of the collection on the website of the city museum. Retrieved February 11, 2017 .
- ↑ Förderkreis Vermessungstechnisches Museum eV: 500 Years of Gerhard Mercator - From the Renaissance of the World to the Modern Map. Retrieved February 11, 2017 .
- ^ Förderkreis Vermessungstechnisches Museum: News No. 692
- ^ Statute for the award of an Eratosthenes Prize