Gruberhof
 Inner courtyard of the Museumshofreite with a view of the cowshed, today a restaurant and lecture venue of the museum association |
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| Data | |
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| place | Groß-Umstadt |
| Art |
City, local history and farm museum, cultural center
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| architect | (Hofreite) |
| opening | April 19, 1987 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | several thousand |
| operator |
Umstädter Museums- & Geschichtsverein eV
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| management |
Mr. R. Schütz,
1st chairman of the association |
| Website | |
| ISIL | DE-MUS-954318 |
The Gruberhof , an old riding school , has been used as the museum and cultural center of the city of Groß-Umstadt since 1987 . The museum courtyard contains a nationally significant and unique collection from agriculture , handicraft and history, which the Hessian television regularly uses for broadcasts. In addition to being used as a museum, it is used for historical lectures, traditional festivals and cultural events. The name does not refer to a pit or a similar loan word , but is owed to the last private owner of the farm.
goals and tasks
The Gruberhof fulfills functions as a town , local history and farm museum with various craft departments. A large part is designed as an open-air museum . It is usually open from Easter to the end of October on Sundays or on certain event dates. Admission is free.
The aim is to preserve, document and develop the historical and cultural heritage of the city and the Odenwald region . The museum is a communal institution, supported by the non-profit museum and history association Groß-Umstadt , which performs all tasks such as collecting, preserving, researching, exhibiting and mediating as an intercultural framework program in trust for the city and the population of Groß-Umstadt. The local branch of the Odenwald Club also has a domicile here. With Autmundisstat - Contributions to History, the museum association publishes its own series of publications on the history of the city and region. The lecture series is reviewed annually, but books on special topics are also published, for example the Umstädter Pestbuch , 1250 years of local history, the history of the RESOPAL company and other topics.
history
History of the Gruberhof
The Umstadt executioner and Wasenmeister Johann Schwert went to Gießen in 1708 without giving up his right of inheritance in Umstadt. A son from the Klotz hangman dynasty in Frankfurt , Anton Klotz, married Anna Margaretha Schwert. His hereditary line was confirmed only seven days before his death in 1727. One of those born later returned to Umstadt in 1806. In 1816 the Wasenmeister Klotz in front of the city was given the so-called "Rauhwiese" for the new covering shop (in exchange for the old area within the city, which was meanwhile enclosed by the residential area of the city; according to the city regulations, however, a covering shop had to be outside due to the risk of infection) . In 1838, Heinrich Klotz confirmed the rights to the Wasenmeisterei "for the time of his life" in a settlement. The old inheritance rights from 1664 and existing in the 6th generation have expired. In 1908 the male line died out and passed to the Gruber family through marriage. The name also changed to the Gruberhof, which is still known today. The family owned a large sheep farm with several thousand sheep until the mid-1970s. Herds grazed in Hesse and Bavaria and were sold as far as Saxony or driven to Leipzig for slaughter . In 1985 and 1986 the first museum exhibitions were shown in the courtyard. At the turn of 1986/1987, the city bought the entire farm and expanded it as a museum and cultural center, which was inaugurated as the Umstadt Museum at Easter 1987. Five years later, the local outreach of the Odenwald Club had also created a domicile with the expansion of the former sheep pen.
East side of the three-sided courtyard with exhibitions on the history of the city and local viticulture
Manor house of the museum courtyard
West side of the museum courtyard with the "Kuhstall" restaurant
The front yard in front of the northern wing of the cross Gruber court at the "Beune" located
History of the museum association
We are grateful to the Emmerich families of the city, who built a small private museum on the history of the city and its inhabitants since the 1970s and saved many things from oblivion. The first exhibitions took place in their own barn . The museum association was founded on December 9, 1979, and the museum work was financed with large wine auctions in the Palatinate Palace in the 1980s . Since the sum of the inventory soon exceeded the storage and exhibition possibilities, the offer of the family living at the Gruberhof at that time was used for shelter and exhibition. A request to the city for a museum complex was concluded after examining different variants in 1987 with the purchase of the Gruberhof and made available to the museum association. At the same time, the city secured a right of use for cultural events. In 1992 the Odenwald Club was added. The achievements in building a museum were honored with the city's culture prize in 1996 and the city's medal of honor was awarded to association member August Fischer for his many years of work in the field of archeology and local history research. In 1993 the Frankish warrior found during excavations was made accessible to the public in the museum.
The museum
Structure and content of the museum
The various departments of the museum can be entered individually from the inner courtyard of the three-sided courtyard with the manor house: wheelchair , joinery , plumber , saddlery , shoemaker and blacksmith (with a steam hammer and a mechanically operated hand drill ) as well as an old electrical workshop . A bakery , laundry room and feed kitchen have been set up. A complete drugstore from the 1920s completes the whole thing. An overview of various agricultural implements is given in a large barn. Wine processing also takes up a lot of space . The Umstädter grape varieties are explained, the presses for pressing , a cooper's workshop and the obligatory Umstädter wine cellar complete the museum. Breweries were based in the city. The functionality of the “Brenner” brewery is therefore explained in a model.
The contrasts between servant housing and bourgeois housing are shown. A servant's apartment on the upper floor of the adjoining building contrasts with an almost complete bourgeois apartment from Heubach .
The rich history is presented in its own archaeological section. These include Stone Age finds, Roman excavation pieces such as the grape stone , parts of a hypocaust and finds from a villa rustica under the town church . The Franconian warrior as well as the 400 year old Umstädter Richtschwert bear witness to a rich history. In the former sheepfold, which has been converted into a meeting room, lecture room and restaurant, there are also wine tastings of wines from the "Odenwälder Weininsel" (the Umstadt area is part of the Hessische Bergstrasse wine-growing region). On special occasions, even bread is baked in the still functioning bakery . A classroom from the 1920s, the model of the outdoor pool, a Ritzert clock tower , a beekeeping , lots of large farm equipment (for example a Lanz Bulldog tractor, several carriages , mower binders , threshing machines , wood cutting machines , ladder carts, potato sorting machines , straw cutting machines , clover threshers , manure wagons , a plow collection ), which can be seen under the roof, which was newly built in 2000, supplement information on agriculture over the past 200 years. A cottage garden , as well as gravestones and boundary stones of the district are also part of it, as well as a shepherd's cart and extensive information on sheep farming . Thanks to the work of the museum association, an increasingly extensive exhibition on Jewish life in Umstadt was set up in 2012 .
Glance into the living and sleeping areas of the servant's apartment
Entrance area to the various departments of the craft areas
The rebuilt drugstore from the 1920s
Evidence from the Stone Age in the Gruberhof Museum
The symbol of the club and museum
The Roman grape stones in the town church
Logo of the Umstädter Museums- und Geschichtsverein eV
The symbol is the grape stone, part of a larger Roman grave monument at the end of the 2nd century, which was found during excavations in the 1960s in the area of the town church, which stands on the foundations of a Roman villa rustica. The grape stone is intended to remind you that wine was and is a striking cultural heritage of the urban area over the years and centuries. In the districts of Umstadt, wine is still grown today and the Groß-Umstadt winegrowers festival is celebrated every year in September, with a group of the association always taking part in historical costumes. In the museum's wine cellar , information about the wine-growing area and the production and history of wine in the region is presented, and special tours called “History and Wine” with wine tastings are offered. There are three different themes.
literature
- Magistrate of the city of Groß-Umstadt: 1250 years of Gross-Umstadt 743-1993 . Geigerverlag, 1st edition 1993, ISBN 978-3-89264-771-3 .
- Egon Schallmayer : Groß-Umstadt, DA. Roman manor, relief stones from tombs. In: Dietwulf Baatz / Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann (ed.): The Romans in Hessen . Licensed edition of the 1989 edition, Nikol, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-933203-58-9 , pp. 328-330.
- Arnold Straub: Museum “Gruberhof” Groß-Umstadt (museum and history guide), Umstädter Museums- und Geschichtsverein Verlag, Groß-Umstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3945765029 . 60 pages
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.hr-online.de/website/fernsehen/sendung/index.jsp?rubrik=26644 example
- ↑ http://www.gruberhof-museum.de/index.php?id=online-shop List of all available articles in the series
- ↑ The Umstädter Pestbuch - The great plague 1634–1636 , Ed .: Umstädter Museums- und Geschichtsverein. Published by Sighard Volp, Selbstverlag 2005
Web links
Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 20.2 " N , 8 ° 56 ′ 11.2" E