House of City History (Offenbach am Main)
The Haus der Stadtgeschichte emerged from the amalgamation of the city museum and city archive of Offenbach am Main . It shows the city of Offenbach's 10,000 years of history from the Stone Age to the present. The city museum, founded in 1969, had its headquarters in the Villa Jäger before the merger .
The exhibition design of the Haus der Stadtgeschichte , designed by the Offenbach am Main University of Design , is one of the most modern in the region. With a demanding program of exhibitions and events, the house has established itself as a cultural pillar in the eastern Rhine-Main area.
The Bernard Building, in which the House of City History has been based since the merger of the museum and archive, is a cultural monument under the Hessian Monument Protection Act .
building
The House of City History has resided in the Bernardbau since January 2004, the building complex of the former tobacco factory of the Offenbach brothers Bernard, completed in 1896 . The listed building is an outstanding testimony to historical industrial architecture within the Route of Industrial Culture Rhine-Main . The exhibition design of the museum, designed by the Offenbach am Main University of Design, is one of the most modern in the region. With its ambitious program of exhibitions and events, the house has established itself as a cultural pillar in the eastern Rhine-Main area .
Permanent collection
The museum's permanent collection provides an overview of the city's history with stations in prehistory and early history , the development from village to city, the period of industrialization through to the present.
On display are the earliest finds in what will later be Offenbach's territory, Stone Age artefacts and Bronze and Iron Age finds, even before the dawn of the Roman era. The wagon grave from Offenbach-Rumpenheim is one of the oldest finds on display . The reconstruction shows the burial of an early Celtic prince on a four-wheeled ceremonial wagon.
Two city models from around 1800 and 1850, plans and large-scale city views illustrate Offenbach's urban development. On the upper floor you can see the d'Orvillesche dollhouse from 1757, which shows an upper -class household from the Rococo period .
In the 18th century several faience factories were set up, from whose production representative pieces are exhibited. The replica of a historic bar press honors the fact that in Offenbach, lithography was first used commercially as a printing process from 1800 . Local evidence of modern industrial development such as iron art, leather industry or tobacco processing complement the economic history presentation. Multimedia exhibition elements present photographs, films and documents that are significant in terms of urban history, such as the privileges of the Offenbach Huguenots from 1705 or the pamphlet Der Hessische Landbote by Georg Büchner from 1834, printed in Offenbach .
Modern Art - Graphic Collection
In the rear wing of the Bernard building, the modern art department and the museum's graphic collection are set up on a total of 400 m² and, in addition to exhibition space, also include the house's central graphics magazine, which houses around 7500 graphics and the art collection of the International Senefelder Foundation on permanent loan. An exhibition was dedicated to works from the life's work of the Offenbach artist Erich Martin . A total of 300 works from Martin's estate have found their place in the museum on permanent loan.
The archive
The archive of the Haus der Stadtgeschichte maintains the historical files and documents of the city of Offenbach and keeps them available for inquiries about city or family history. The extensive library, the photo and newspaper collections not only complement the exhibitions in the museum, but also form the basis of numerous scientific research and form the city's historical memory.
Others
The House of City History hit the headlines nationwide in the summer of 2012. The reason for this was the extraordinary termination of the museum's curator by the city. This aroused interest because the curator Marcus Frings was Andrea Nahles' husband .
Exhibitions
- 2018: Kurt Steinel - An Artist's Life
- 2017: Retrospective Erich Franke
- 2017: Because of flat! Masterpieces of lithography from the collections of the city of Offenbach. In cooperation with the Klingspor Museum
- 2017: Structure and material - 90 years of Herbert Aulich
- 2017: Through the desert to the west. Anniversary exhibition for Karl May's 175th birthday
- 2017: Favorite pieces from the depot. 100 years from the local history museum to the house of city history
- 2016: City Archives: 100 Years of the Synagogue on Goethestrasse - The checkered history of a striking Offenbach church
- 2016: 90 years of the Offenbach Artists' Association
- 2016: Heide Khatschturian: That there
- 2016: Olcay Acet, Susanna Cianfarini, Marisa Grundmann: The inside and the outside
- 2016: Thomas Hartmann: Locus Solus
- 2016: the party after the party. Eismann-Bonifer-Eismann project
- 2016: Alexander von Falkenhausen: Slow Down
- 2016: Johannes Kriesche and Brigitte Gutwerk: Time loops
- 2016: Petra Maria Mühl: Melencolia Project II 2005–2015
- 2015: The hidden museum - documentation of an Offenbach treasure
- 2015: Zero Reiko Ishihara: Variations
- 2015: War and Freedom - French Period and Wars of Liberation in the Rhine-Main Region (1792-1815)
- 2013: Peace to the huts! War the palaces! Georg Büchner's Hessischer Landbote and Offenbach in Vormärz (1815–1848)
- 2012: Traces of time - BOK in the House of City History
- In June 2012, the exhibition entitled “New Worlds” was opened in the former production hall of the Offenbach printing machine manufacturer manroland in Christian-Pleß- Strasse: Twenty artists with direct or indirect links to the city of Offenbach were invited to show their work, among others Tobias Rehberger , Barbara Klemm , Martin Liebscher and Sandra Mann
- 2011: River landscapes - photographs by Peter Menne
Web links
- Publications of the Haus der Stadtgeschichte (Offenbach am Main) in the catalog of the German National Library
- Publications of the Stadtmuseum (Offenbach am Main) in the catalog of the German National Library
- Publications of the city archive (Offenbach am Main) in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official website of the city of Offenbach am Main on the House of City History
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reinhold Gries: The newly formed team wants to make “Haus der Stadtgeschichte” fit for the future. In: op-online.de. December 28, 2009, accessed June 16, 2015 .
- ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse (ed.): Herrnstrasse 59–61 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse .
- ↑ Local route guide No. 13 of the Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main. (PDF; 686 kB) (No longer available online.) In: krfrm.de. KulturRegion FrankfurtRheinMain gGmbH, August 2006, archived from the original on November 17, 2015 ; accessed on November 14, 2015 . 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.
- ↑ Museums & Special Exhibitions 2014 in the KulturRegion FrankfurtRheinMain. (PDF; 5.1 MB) In: krfrm.de. KulturRegion FrankfurtRheinMain gGmbH, 2014, p. 60 , accessed on June 17, 2015 .
- ^ House of City History Offenbach am Main. Museum. From: offenbach.de , accessed on June 17, 2015.
- ^ Archaeological finds in Offenbach am Main. From: offenbach.de , accessed on June 17, 2015.
- ↑ Offenbach dolls house from 1757. In: offenbach.de. February 27, 2006, archived from the original on January 14, 2016 ; accessed on August 11, 2016 .
- ↑ Reinhold Gries: Fixed place for modern art. In: op-online.de. April 2, 2011, accessed June 16, 2015 .
- ↑ The archive - the city's historical memory. From: offenbach.de , accessed on June 17, 2015.
- ^ Anton Jakob Weinberger: Offenbach against art curator Frings: "Unprofessionality on the edge of willfulness". In: faz.net. October 17, 2012, accessed June 18, 2015 .
- ↑ Opening of the exhibition "Kurt Steinel - An Artist's Life" in the Haus der Stadtgeschichte. ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2018 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. In: offenbach.de. October 12, 2018, accessed October 23, 2018.
- ↑ Erich Franke retrospective . ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2017 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. In: offenbach.de. September 11, 2017. Retrieved September 28, 2017.
- ↑ Jörg Muthorst: The Hessian Landbote: A call to revolution. In: fr-online.de. October 5, 2013, accessed June 17, 2015 .
- ↑ Reinhold Gries: Exhibition in the House of City History: Dialogue of Times. In: op-online.de. December 1, 2012, accessed June 17, 2015 .
- ↑ Jörg Muthorst: Exhibition: A New Approach for New Worlds. In: fr-online.de. November 11, 2011, accessed June 17, 2015 .
- ^ River landscapes - Peter Menne. In: kunst-und-kultur.de, archived on Webcitation.org .
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 30.2 " N , 8 ° 45 ′ 41.8" E