Gäubodenmuseum
.jpg) Portal of the Gäubodenmuseum at Fraunhoferstraße 23 (2014) |
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Straubing 
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Museum of cultural history (archeology and city history)
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| opening | 1845 (start of collection) |
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City of Straubing
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-128316 |
The Gäubodenmuseum in Straubing offers a comprehensive overview of the history of Straubing and the Gäuboden . The museum focuses on prehistory (from the Neolithic to the Celtic period ), the Roman period , the early Bavarians and the Middle Ages , the Counter-Reformation up to the end of the Kingdom of Bavaria, as well as sacred art and popular piety.
In addition to the permanent exhibitions, the museum offers changing special exhibitions, most recently on the Roman port of Straubing and Roman Danube shipping.
History of the museum
The beginnings of the Museum go to 1845 back when they become unusable objects of municipal armory in the so-called. Powder Tower collected and made publicly available. The officer and local researcher Eduard Wimmer (1840–1902) succeeded in 1880 in using the Straubing city tower as the historical collection of the city of Straubing . With the founding of the Historical Association for Straubing and the surrounding area in 1898, the collection received further impulses; Due to a lack of space, the collection was moved to Fraunhofer Strasse 9 from 1908 . The Gäubodenmuseum received its current name on the occasion of its reopening in 1938. In 1976, the building at Fraunhoferstraße 11 was also acquired. Today the Gäubodenmuseum houses a total of around 2500 square meters of exhibition space.
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Until 1982 the museum was run on a voluntary basis by the respective chairman of the historical association for Straubing and the surrounding area.
- 1982–2013 Johannes Prammer
- since October 1, 2013 Günther Moosbauer
Prehistory Department
This department was opened in 1985 and added numerous new finds in 2013. The most important finds from the early Neolithic farmers to the end of the Celtic period from the Gäuboden are presented in chronological order in nine rooms .
The exhibition units are the Neolithic cultures , the Bronze Age and the Iron Age with their most important archaeological epochs of Urnfield culture , Hallstatt and Latène times in the Gäuboden .
Straubing Roman treasure
The highlight of the museum is the Roman treasure, which is considered one of the most important Roman finds in Germany. In 1950, a copper kettle was discovered during construction work, which turned out to be the deposit of several Roman parade armor (with impressive bronze face helmets or masks) and other metallic objects. The treasure was probably in the 3rd century marauding Alemanni buried.
Roman Department
In one of the largest Roman departments in Bavaria, the Roman history of Sorviodurum (Straubing) with its military facilities, the Roman Danube port and the associated civilian settlement is shown. A total of 1500 men were stationed in Straubing from the last third of the 1st century AD up to the Marcomann Wars in the 1970s. After that, the 1000-strong 1st partially mounted canoe cohort with Syrian archers remained the main unit. Military and civil found objects, a 3D reconstruction of the Roman Straubing in the middle of the 2nd century AD, a large wall painting and medieval tomb complexes are on display. After these structures were destroyed in the 2nd half of the 3rd century AD, the military camp relocated to the west. The late antique fort was located on today's church hill of St. Peter in the 4th and 5th centuries. Finds from the burial grounds that can be assigned to this fort are presented in the department.
Bavaria found!
Since September 2018, the early Bavarian regional history has been processed in this new interactive department using the example of grave fields from the urban area of Straubing. Around 1500 grave inventories from the 5th to 8th centuries AD form the basis of this department. A film tells of the late Romans, the time of the Ostrogothic and Franconian rule, as well as the relationship between the Bavarians and the Longobards in Friuli, in which the historical sources are processed and the grave finds themselves. In addition, the history of Straubing's old town from 5 treated until the 12th century AD.
