Fire Brigade Museum Berlin
The Fire Brigade Museum Berlin in Berlin-Tegel (in the local fire station ; Berliner Straße 16 / Veitstraße 5) has been showing an exhibition on the history of the Berlin fire department since 1983 .
history
The museum emerged from the historical teaching material show of the Berlin fire brigade, which began in a small room of the Charlottenburg main fire station in Lietzow. First of all, various old fire-fighting equipment, characteristic finds from fire sites as well as pictures on tables and in showcases could be seen. In 1898 a photographic device was procured for the fire brigade in order to obtain photos of deployment sites, whereby these recordings were used to document the operations and for training, but also as a template for oil paintings ( Brand Stralauer Straße , painter: Wolf Maage, 1905).
Friedrich Heinrich Johannes (Hans) Scheele, senior building officer (born January 23, 1878 in Züllsdorf , Torgau district ; † June 15, 1949 in Kassel ) founded a fire department museum in 1911 . Due to the First World War (1914–1918), the collection could not be further built up and became the property of the City of Berlin on February 1, 1922, as part of the implementation of the law on the formation of a new city in Berlin.
First of all, exhibits from the Berlin and Schöneberg main fire stations were collected and exhibited in the Suarez fire station . On January 1, 1927, a substantial collection was shown to the public, with a total of three larger guard rooms being used for the exhibition. This collection could be expanded to include exhibits that were partially acquired with private funds. In addition, there were also many loans, as only limited funds were available. From the carefully kept guest book at the time, it could be seen that the collection was open to the public until 1932. During the subsequent liquidation, the exhibits - provided they were not on loan - were relocated and placed in storage rooms at various fire stations.
After the Second World War , a collection was once again put together for teaching purposes in the Schöneberg fire station , based on models of fire engines. These models were recreated in 1951 for the 100th anniversary of the Berlin fire brigade by fire brigade members on a scale of 1:10. This teaching show was not open to the public.
For the 125th anniversary of the Berlin fire brigade in 1976, current and historical fire fighting equipment and vehicles were once again included. For this exhibition, the remaining exhibits from the former teaching show were compiled and supplemented, which could then be temporarily set up in the basement of the service building in Wannsee , Scabellstrasse 5/7. Due to the considerable increase in new exhibits, these rooms soon turned out to be too small and therefore, in 1983, the Tegel fire station began to prepare appropriate rooms on the 2nd floor for this collection and an archive.
exhibition
The Berlin Fire Brigade Museum not only offers information on the history of the Berlin Fire Brigade, the largest and oldest professional fire brigade in Germany. In the approximately 800 m² exhibition, in addition to photo and video documentation, many life-size exhibits are shown. This does not include the 20 historic fire engines, including the manufacturers Daimler-Benz , MAN and Magirus-Deutz , which cannot currently be shown in the museum for reasons of space. There are different exhibition areas and each of these areas forms a closed unit, a period of time or a special subject area: the carriage hall, smoking room and underwater world, but also a traffic accident, the work of the fire brigade during World War II as well as the rescue service and the fire brigade control center can be experienced first hand by the visitor become.
For telecommunications technology, historical fire alarms and fire alarm receiving systems are exhibited, which are properly installed. During demonstrations, the visitor can see what happens when a fire alarm is activated. This explains the alarm process at the fire brigade.
In an exhibition room, equipment is set up that was previously used for the recruitment test of fire service employees. After the medical examination, there were exams in gymnastics, a psychotechnical examination as well as arithmetic and writing. Visitors can test themselves.
An eye-catcher of the museum is a capped front of the building rescue helicopter of the type MBB BO 105 , reminiscent of the days when the Berlin rescue helicopter Christoph 31 due to the Allied rights nor with American flag flew and American pilots his bets.
See also
Web links
- Museum of the Berlin Fire Brigade on the Berlin Fire Brigade website
- Fire Brigade Museum Berlin on the website of the Friends of the Fire Brigade Museum Berlin e. V.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guard in Charlottenburger Suarezstraße: Suarez fire station ( memento of the original from March 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Berliner-Feuerwehr.de. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
- ↑ The museum's vehicle collection . Website of the Friends of the Fire Brigade Museum Berlin e. V., accessed March 8, 2017.
Coordinates: 52 ° 35 ′ 11 ″ N , 13 ° 17 ′ 10 ″ E