Local museum of our Fritz

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Local museum of our Fritz
Herne Heimatmuseum building.jpg

Museum building
Data
place Herne
Art
Local museum
opening 1927
operator
City of Herne
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-140910

The local museum Unser Fritz is one of the three locations of the Emschertal Museum on the social history of Herne and Wanne-Eickel. In the year Wanne-Eickel was founded (1926) it was set up as a local museum . After several relocations, it is today the now in the former elementary school Herne city part Unser Fritz housed.

history

The museum was founded by thirty citizens from Wanne and Eickel interested in local history, who organized themselves in the Society for Local History in 1925 and collected material themselves. The opening took place in March 1927. At that time there was a cultural-historical , a prehistoric , a diluvial and a mineralogical department. In addition, writings, pictures, war memories and old weapons were collected.

In 1940 the founders transferred the museum to the city of Wanne-Eickel.

The "Fortuna-Bude"

The Second World War and the time thereafter brought about major changes in the museum's holdings. On the one hand, materials were lost through relocations, storage, theft and destruction, and on the other, the weapons collection had to be handed over by order of the military government at the time. In the following years, the museum still occupied various locations before moving to the first floor of the former elementary school in 1968. In 1971 the first floor was added. In 1978 the name "Heimat- und Naturkunde-Museum Wanne-Eickel" was adopted.

After extensive renovation work, the house was reopened in April 2017 as the "Heimatmuseum Unser Fritz". The new permanent exhibition received a great positive response from the population and the press.

Exhibition and exhibits

The exhibition at the Heimatmuseum tells of migration paths, of childhood and youth, of male and female roles, of protest and repression. The museum narrative deliberately plays with clichés and reality. The replica of the "Flöz Wilhelm", a takeover from the old days of the museum, is reinterpreted as the painful birth canal of the cities in a silent film from 1921 about the funeral services for a mine accident at the Mont Cenis colliery. The National Socialism room provokes with the worker's kitchen under the motto “Better Life”. Special exhibits are the walkable replica of a dismantling route , the completely preserved Art Nouveau furnishings of a drugstore from 1905, a beautiful living room in the Gelsenkirchen Baroque style and a historical classroom from around 1900 including many teaching and learning materials from that time that were previously up to when it was closed in 2015 in the Bochum School Museum.

“Strictly local” is the conceptual guiding principle and it is no coincidence that it is reminiscent of “Dig where you stand!”, The old motto of the history workshop movement. Most of the exhibits come from the local area. No distinction is made between high and popular culture in their presentation. An elaborately decorated print of the “Black Madonna of Czestochowa” hangs quite deliberately next to the colored photo of an immigrant couple from Poznan. And the coat of arms of Herne with the handwritten approval of the royal Prussian authorities from 1900 has an almost subversive spatial relationship to the atlas video cassette of the film "Theo against the rest of the world", a classic Ruhr area that had its world premiere in 1980 in the Herner Lichtburg .

The "Fortuna-Bude" is one of the oldest drinking halls in the area. It was built around 1905 on behalf of the Gelsenkirchen mineral water manufacturer Franz Erlemeier and stood at the entrance to the city garden in Gelsenkirchen until the First World War. In 1923 the confectionery manufacturer Wilhelm Michels moved the booth on Gelsenkircher Strasse to the Wanne office. In 1929 Maria Sobczak took over the business with her husband, the mountain invalid Johannes Sobczak. Little by little they expanded the range of goods to include small dishes, newspapers and magazines, alcoholic beverages and tobacco products. On the initiative of Rudolf Zienius, the town of Wanne-Eickel acquired the gem in 1971 for DM 1,800 and moved it to the courtyard of the local history museum.

Figure ensemble

The "three-men-corner"

The three gray stone figures of a miner, a railroad worker and a barge, which are attached to the facade of the building, represent the exhibited contents: railroad, mining, canal shipping, the three pillars of the Wanne-Eickel economic life. They were created in 1927 by the Wanner trade teacher and sculptor Wilhelm Braun . Until 1970, the figures were attached to the three-man corner of the Glück-auf-Platz near the train station. Today there is a column with copies in front of the train station.

Vehicles in the courtyard of the museum

The rail vehicles on display in the Ruhr area include a steam locomotive from 1930 and a cleaning tram from 1914. Tram 181 and utility vehicle 601 were taken over and transported away on April 20, 2015 by the Transport History Association of Bochum-Gelsenkirchener Straßenbahnen AG . Both are now stored protected from the weather, the work engine can be rolled and the tram is reconditioned to work.

  • and driving school ...

  • ... Gelsenkirschener (!) Tram

  • Locomotives ...

  • Historical electric engine.jpg

  • Fireless steam locomotive

literature

  • Rudolf Zienius: The history of the Wanne-Eickeler Heimatmuseum up to 1974. In: Emschertal-Museum (Hrsg.): 60 years of the Emschertal-Museum (1926–1986). Herne 1986.
  • Emschertal Museum (Hrsg.): Emschertal Museum. Wanne-Eickel Local History and Natural History Museum. Herne 1993.

Web links

Commons : Heimat- und Naturkunde-Museum Wanne-Eickel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ RVR Regional Association Ruhr. Kulturinfo ruhr: cultural sites in the Ruhr area. Heimat- und Naturkunde Museum  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on May 14, 2012)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kultur-im-ruhrgebiet.de  
  2. ↑ Local history museum “Our Fritz” opens new permanent exhibition. In: coal. The employee magazine of RAG Aktiengesellschaft , 2017, issue 5, p. 37.
  3. ↑ George Howahl: Bude, mining, educational mission. WAZ, July 20, 2019, accessed July 29, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Ralf Piorr: Strictly local, in: Urbane Künste Ruhr: Ruhr Ding: Klima, Preview-Magazin, p. 14f., Bochum 2020
  5. ↑ William Brown in the portal wanne-eickel-historie.de, accessed on May 22, 2017th

Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 34.4 "  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 38.5"  E