Fire Brigade Museum Finsterwalde

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The Finsterwalde Fire Brigade Museum is a museum facility in the town of Finsterwalde in the Elbe-Elster district in southern Brandenburg . Since January 2013 it has been in the remise of a former manufacturer's villa. The so-called Habermann'sche Villa in Geschwister-Scholl-Straße ( called Kurzer Damm until 1948 ) belongs to a group of buildings dating from the 19th century and can be found in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.

exhibition

The museum, which deals with the regional history of fire fighting, has around 350 square meters of exhibition space. Before that, the fire brigade exhibition was located in the premises of Finsterwalder Castle , which were once used by a local cloth factory and converted into a fire brigade depot in 1925.

In the castle, however, the facility had to give way to the conversion work to a new citizen service of the city administration. On the occasion of the 140th anniversary of the Finsterwalder fire brigade, the buildings intended for the museum in Geschwister-Scholl-Strasse were handed over to the local fire brigade association on June 16, 2012 and the new facility was inaugurated on January 20, 2013. The renovation of the listed building on Geschwister-Scholl-Straße cost around half a million euros, two thirds of which were taken over by the federal and state governments .

The exhibits include various fire engines, such as a TLF 15 H3A tank tender (built in 1956), an SKW 14 S4000 hose truck (built in 1959) and an AdW Wartburg 353 release vehicle from 1986 . Further evidence from the various epochs of the Finsterwalder fire brigade history to be found here include water-bearing fittings, radio and alarm technology, respiratory protection and small devices, ladders, a two-wheeled water barrel and riser and attack vehicles. Probably the oldest piece on display here is a hand pressure syringe from 1881, which was originally built in Herzberg / Elster and was given by the Birkwalder fire department in 1972 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Finsterwalder fire brigade .

building

The villa and coach house at Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 2 were built around 1870 by Kommerzienrat Benno Richard Haberland, a cloth manufacturer based in Finsterwalde. The company premises on Langen Damm to the east were sold with the villa to the cloth manufacturer Koswig in 1898. The buildings are currently under monument protection. They belong to a group of buildings that was built around the middle of the 19th century on what was once the Kurzen Damm , where local entrepreneurs preferred to settle on spacious properties. Today, these buildings are among the most defining examples of local development.

Footnotes and individual references

  1. ^ Babette Weber: Finsterwalde Fire Brigade Museum. In: Museums in the Elbe-Elster district , annual calendar for 2013 of the Sparkasse Elbe-Elster , 2012.
  2. ^ A b Woitzik, Manfred: Genius Loci , Finsterwalder Siedlungs- und Baugeschichte; Association of Friends and Friends of the Finsterwalde District Museum; 2010; ISBN 978-3-9811107-0-8 , pp. 185-187.
  3. ↑ The history of Finsterwalde Castle on the city website ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2014 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.finsterwalde.de
  4. ↑ Dieter Babbe: Almost half a million for a new museum. In: Lausitzer Rundschau , June 13, 2012.
  5. ↑ Dieter Babbe: From the cowshed to the remise. In: Lausitzer Rundschau , January 21, 2013.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ′ 39.7 "  N , 13 ° 42 ′ 46.9"  E