Haniel Museum

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Haniel Museum (April 2014)

The Haniel Museum is a museum in Duisburg-Ruhrort .

It is housed in the oldest building in Ruhrort, the former residence and founding house of the Haniel company . Franz Haniel's grandfather, the Mayor of Ruhrort Jan Willem Noot , built it in 1756 and was known as the "Ruhrorter Packhaus". There Haniel's father Jacob Wilhelm Haniel built the family's first trading house in 1772 . It was the first building outside the city ​​walls of Ruhrort and is now part of the site of the headquarters of Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH .

After the end of the Second World War , the house served as an emergency shelter for many Haniel employees and their families. The state central bank also moved into the ground floor for a few years until its new building was completed.

Furthermore, the ground floor of the former apartment served representative purposes. Servants or employees looking for apartments lived in the living quarters. However, since 1980 these rooms have been used as casino rooms for board members, supervisory boards and managing directors.

At the end of the 1960s, the idea arose to set up a museum in the office part of the building. Offices gradually turned into showrooms. At the end of the 1970s, the management discovered the building's warehouse as an interesting setting for prestigious events. The previously existing snow bag in the roof was closed by a flat roof, old crates in the warehouse were removed and the beams were brushed. This is how one of the most beautiful event rooms in Duisburg was created around 1980.

In the first few years the exhibition consisted mainly of the history of inland shipping and the Haniel shipping company. In the mid-1990s, the exhibition began to become more diverse thematically. Today there are rooms on the topics of inland shipping, shipping, Ruhrort, house music, art by the Haniel family, pharmaceuticals, mining, metallurgy (Gutehoffnungshütte), offices in the 19th and 20th centuries and living in the 19th century.

Most of the exhibits are open and therefore only accessible to registered groups of visitors.

Because a casino was set up in the new restaurant building on Franz-Haniel-Platz in 1993, the museum was able to be expanded to include the former living quarters. Since 1995 it has stretched over almost the entire house. The only exceptions are the salon rooms on the ground floor. Here the Haniel company welcomes guests like in Franz Haniel's time. The German Foreign Ministers Klaus Kinkel and Joschka Fischer , the Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanow and Prince Claus of the Netherlands are examples from the 1990s.

Due to renovation work, the museum had to be closed for three months in early 2003. During this time, numerous craftsmen opened up all the floors in the house and reinforced almost all of the supporting beams. The roof was also renovated and completely covered with new slates.

literature

  • Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH (Hrsg.): Haniel 1756 - 2006 - A chronicle in data and facts. Duisburg 2006

Web links

Commons : Haniel Museum  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '4.8 "  N , 6 ° 43" 59.7 "  E