Hüttenberger Heimatmuseum

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Hüttenberger Heimatmuseum from the north-west
Girls in Watzenborn costume

The Hüttenberger Heimatmuseum is a local museum at Rathausstrasse 18 in Leihgestern , a district of Linden in the district of Gießen in Central Hesse . It was founded in 1952 in the former town hall, a listed half-timbered building from 1772, and is dedicated to the history and culture of the Hüttenberger Land . It shows traditional costumes from Hüttenberg , exhibits from rural and domestic life and regional craftsmanship.

history

The old town hall was built in 1772 and in the 20th century served at times as a school room, syringe house and emergency apartment for refugees. Apparently the basement masonry was renewed in the 19th century. After the town hall had become increasingly dilapidated after the Second World War , the local council of Leihgestern left it to the local poet Georg Heß (born January 10, 1888 in Leihgestern; † August 5, 1967), who was looking for an exhibition space for a local museum. Hess received building materials free of charge, collected donations and mobilized craftsmen who lend a hand with the renovation from January 13, 1952, free of charge. The plastered framework was exposed again. Hess was a white binder and painted the interior and also procured the museum pieces. The museum was opened on July 20, 1952, handed over to the community on January 10, 1953, and the second floor was expanded in 1954. In 1994 the square in front of the museum was given the name "Georg-Heß-Platz" and in 1996 a home parlor was inaugurated across from the museum.

Exterior renovations took place in 1986 and 2005, an interior renovation in 1987. The museum is currently managed by Heinz-Lothar Worm .

The name "Hüttenberger Heimatmuseum" refers to the Hüttenberger Land (Amt Hüttenberg), the area of ​​the Lahn valley between Wetzlar , Giessen and Butzbach . Today's municipality of Hüttenberg only makes up a small part of this culturally uniform region.

building

View from the west

The two-storey town hall was built in 1772 in an exposed location in the center of the village, facing the Rathausstrasse (then "Horrgasse"). The basement consists of white plastered quarry stone masonry over an unplastered base. The upper floor is designed in half-timbered construction and is closed off by a crooked roof. The almost symmetrical framework is divided into three zones on the long side by bars . At the corners, the two lower compartments are reinforced by foot struts , while the upper compartments each have a head angle wood. The north side is dominated in the middle by the motif "Wilder Mann" . The lower circumferential transom is interrupted by rectangular windows. The gable ends have profiled filler wood with rows of beam heads. The upper area of ​​the gable side is also divided into three zones. A secondary inscription in Fraktur on the western frame wood reads: "Let us stick to the old, as far as it is good, but create new things on the old ground at any hour". The door bar above the two-wing rectangular entrance door on the north side is marked with the year 1772.

The large room in the basement has a flat beamed ceiling that rests on a longitudinal beam , which is supported in the middle by a wooden post.

exhibition

Hüttenberger Bauernstube
Agricultural and household appliances in the basement
Hüttenberger wedding costume

Around 500 exhibits can be seen on the two lower floors of an area of ​​180 m². The top floor is not open to the public. The large room in the basement shows agricultural implements under the motto “from the seed to the harvest”, including a harrow , various plows and yokes. Household items include pewter and clay dishes, earthenware, an oven, a complete bowl bench, lamps, and butter-making equipment. The cast iron stove plates from a Hirzenhainer iron caster are decorated with biblical motifs. Geological and geographical maps of Hüttenberg hang in the stairwell. The adjoining room is designed as a Hüttenberger farmhouse parlor. In addition to a four-poster bed from Wilhelm Hahn on loan yesterday and the cradle of the museum founder, you can see a number of pictures and other furniture, equipment for hunting, a night watchman's horn and the saber of the former police officer. The focus is on the Hüttenberger Trachten collection on the upper floor. Life-size figures behind nine large glass showcases show work costumes, costumes for festive days and for the Last Supper, as well as costumes for the various phases of mourning. Colorful ribbons and valuable embroidery are characteristic of the area . The showpiece of the collection is an original wedding dress from the 19th century with a crown, ribbons, slips and a white apron. A large loom from the Rühl weaving mill in Laubach is set up in an upstairs adjoining room , the only exhibit that Heß acquired for sale. All other items were donated. Equipment for flax processing can also be found in this room . Documents, files, drawings and other items are collected in a further adjoining room.

The exhibition houses four oil paintings. The oldest from 1906, entitled “Painting with a Cow”, was made by Ernst Eimer (1881–1960). Another painting shows a girl in traditional Watzenborn costume, another by Wilhelm Großhaus a Hüttenberger bride (1939) and the youngest by Karl Sümmerer an old woman from yesterday's loan.

literature

  • Erich Faber: The Hüttenberg and its museum [on loan yesterday]. In: Ernst Türk (Ed.): The district of Gießen between Lahn and Vogelsberg. Theiss, Stuttgart 1976, pp. 107-117.
  • Georg Hess: The Hüttenberger Heimatmuseum. How did it come about? In: loan yesterday. A home book for the 1150th anniversary of the community Leihgestern. Verlag der Gemeinde Leihgestern, Leihgestern 1955, pp. 201–204.
  • Hüttenberger Heimatmuseums (ed.): The development of the Hüttenberger Heimatmuseum on loan yesterday. Loan yesterday [around 1950].
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Karlheinz Lang (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. District of Giessen II. Buseck, Fernwald, Grünberg, Langgöns, Linden, Pohlheim, Rabenau. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8062-2178-7 , pp. 384-5
  • Verbund Mittelhessischer Heimatmuseen eV (Ed.), Emil Winter (Red.): Mittelhessische Museen introduce themselves. Verbund Mittelhessischer Heimatmuseen, Gießen 2007, pp. 16–17.
  • 500 exhibits of rural tradition. Hüttenberger Heimatmuseum has existed for 50 years. In: Gießener Anzeiger , Vol. 253, H. 182 of August 8, 2002 [without page].

Web links

Commons : Hüttenberger Heimatmuseum  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (Ed.), Lang (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse.
  2. ^ Hess: The Hüttenberger Heimatmuseum. How did it come about? 1955, p. 201.
  3. ^ Hüttenberger Heimatmuseums (Hrsg.): The development of the Hüttenberger Heimatmuseum on loan yesterday. Leihgestern [around 1950], pp. 8–9.
  4. ↑ Gießener Allgemeine from January 28, 2013: Georg Heß: Customs maintenance, poet - followers? , accessed May 19, 2014.
  5. ↑ Gießener Anzeiger from January 10, 2013: Loan star Georg Heß would have been 125 years old today ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2014 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. , accessed May 19, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.giessener-anzeiger.de
  6. ↑ Gernot Rödl, Peter Weller: Chronicle of the local association Leihgestern (PDF), in: 75 years Heimatvereinigung Schiffenberg e. V. , Festschrift, 2004.
  7. ↑ Hessen Yearbook 2009. Ministries, authorities, municipalities, associations, institutions of public life. Walter de Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-24018-8 , p. 64.
  8. ↑ Verbund Mittelhessischer Heimatmuseen eV (Ed.), Emil Winter (Red.): Mittelhessische Museen introduce themselves. Association of Central Hessian Local Museums, Gießen 2007, p. 16.
  9. ^ Hess: The Hüttenberger Heimatmuseum. How did it come about? 1955, p. 203.
  10. ^ Hüttenberger Heimatmuseums (Hrsg.): The development of the Hüttenberger Heimatmuseum on loan yesterday. Leihgestern [around 1950], p. 10.
  11. ↑ Christian Rupp: More attention for the girl with a cow. A flair for museums and private households: Ruth Neeb catalogs the works of Ernst Eimer for the first time in Groß-Eichen on the edge of the Vogelsberg. In: Frankfurter Rundschau from August 12, 2003.
  12. ↑ Verbund Mittelhessischer Heimatmuseen eV (Ed.), Emil Winter (Red.): Mittelhessische Museen introduce themselves. Association of Central Hessian Local Museums, Gießen 2007, p. 17.

Coordinates: 50 ° 31 ′ 37 "  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 34"  E