Bergen-Enkheim local history museum
The Bergen-Enkheim Local History Museum has been housed in the historic Bergen-Enkheim town hall since 1959 . Bergen-Enkheim had city rights since 1968 and was incorporated into Frankfurt am Main in 1977 .
The local history museum is supported by the association Arbeitsgemeinschaft Heimatmuseum Frankfurt am Main - Bergen-Enkheim e. V. It has around 150 members and donors.
exhibition
The entrance to the local history museum can be found on the west side of the town hall (formerly known as Spilhus / Spielhaus ), on the back of the building with the stair tower, which has been partially sheltered . It can be reached via five steps. Agricultural implements are shown in the vaulted cellar of the town hall, including those for making cider . The ground floor is the formerly open market and court hall. Among other things, it contains a model of the Spilhus with comparative historical photos. A large diorama with 2,260 painted tin soldiers illustrates the bloody battle near Bergen on Good Friday , April 13, 1759, the most important armed conflict in Hesse . A large coat of arms stone from 1671 made of sandstone and the tomb of a Berger bailiff show contemporary works. There are several showrooms on the first floor, including historical coins, porcelain, earthenware and weapons. A small diorama shows the conquest of the Schelmenburg by a force from thirteen cities under the command of Frankfurt, which the brothers Gerlach and Sibold Schelm von Bergen, hated as robber barons, arrested. Historical sewing tables are shown in the bay window of the town hall . Exhibits from early history, a geological and a natural history exhibition can be seen on the stairs and the corridor to the conference room.
The museum's holdings range from hand ax from the Paleolithic Age (120,000 years old), which Heinz Ackermann found in 1961 while excavating in today's Vilbeler Landstrasse , to finds of ribbon ceramics from the Neolithic Age , and exhibits from the Urnfields - Bronze Age (1200-800 BC) .), Bronze jewelry from the Hallstatt and Latène periods (800–500 BC and 500 BC – 50 AD), Roman pottery remains and broken bricks from the XIV and XXII legions . You can also find silver coins from the time of the Schmalkaldic War , weapons from the Middle Ages , the time of the Thirty Years' War up to the Napoleonic era.
The AG Heimatmuseum publishes its publication spilhus (“Messages for the Friends of the Heimatmuseum…”) several times a year with articles on historically interesting local topics, as well as messages from the association - a twelve-page magazine in A4 format. The magazine is sent to members and is available free of charge in various shops and in the museum to take away. However, some editions are also available for download online as PDF files.
The Bergen-Enkheim local history museum celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2009. Good Friday of the same year marked the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bergen.
Transport links
The Old Town Hall or the Bergen-Enkheim Local History Museum can be reached by public transport using the RMV bus lines 42 and 43. The Heimatmuseum Bergen-Enkheim stop is in the immediate vicinity of the building. Parking spaces can be found at the nearby town hall.
Roof truss renovation
Since the beginning of 2012, the museum has been closed to visitors from the first floor for the renovation of the roof structure and the floor. The exhibits and fixtures previously located there were relocated for this purpose.
Since the end of 2015, the museum has not been open to the public until further notice due to construction and security work.
Since November 7, 2019, there has been a partial exhibition next door at Marktstraße 38, where the museum's storage rooms are also located, on the first Sunday of each month between 3 and 6 p.m. to bridge the gap until the expected reopening in 2022.
literature
- Henschke, Werner: Living Past in Bergen-Enkheim , The Magistrate of the City of Bergen-Enkheim (ed.), 1976
- Emmel, Ludwig Fr .: Chronicle of a landscape on the Untermain Bergen-Enkheim , Bergen-Enkheim Home Foundation, 1985
- Heinemeyer, Karl-Heinz: Circular route through Bergen-Enkheim - A historical reflection , 1991
- Usener, Johann Heinrich: Cronick from the Bornheimerberg office started in 1796 , edited by Walter Reul, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Heimatmuseum Ffm.-Bergen-Enkheim e. V., 1998
- Heinemeyer, Karl-Heinz: Bergen-Enkheim - A young district with an ancient history , Frankfurter Sparkasse (ed.), 2001
- Museums in Hessen. Published by the Hessischer Museumsverband, Kassel 1994 p. 262f. ISBN 3-9800508-8-2
Web links
- City of Frankfurt am Main, Altes Berger Rathaus, accessed on Feb. 22, 2020
- City of Frankfurt am Main, Bergen-Enkheim, accessed on Feb. 22, 2020
- Back in Bergen , Frankfurter Rundschau, July 5, 2008
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the website of the city of Frankfurt (Prehistory and Early Middle Ages) it is even ascribed an age of 200,000 years.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2010 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.
Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 19.1 ″ N , 8 ° 45 ′ 13.9 ″ E