Mittenwalde local history museum

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Mittenwalde local history museum

The Heimatmuseum Mittenwalde is a folklore museum in the town of Mittenwalde in the Dahme-Spreewald district in the state of Brandenburg in the Federal Republic of Germany . It is located in a listed half-timbered house at Salzmarkt 5 in the center of the city.

history

In the 16th century, there was a building with rising masonry and a stone cellar on the site of today's local history museum . This house was probably replaced by a half-timbered house at the end of the 16th or the beginning of the 17th century. During this work, two cellar rooms made of field stone walls with intermediate masonry and a vault made of brick were created . The homogeneous masonry, in which stones in the format 28 × 14 × 8 cm were used, is striking. The dimensions differ from the stones that were used to build the Berlin Gate : stones measuring 27 × 13 × 10 cm were used there. The brick barrel in the first basement room is based on a field stone masonry in the east, which probably stems from the previous building. In the west it leads directly to the ground. Investigations showed that the facade at the time on the courtyard side must have been about two meters further north. Today's half-timbered building was built in the 17th and possibly also in the 18th century. It is still unclear whether the existing building was torn down or fell victim to a city fire. From this time there are still some stove tiles that were found during excavations in the second cellar room and other pits in the building. During this time, the barrel vault in the first basement room was partially demolished. It was replaced by two steep barrel segments so that the basement can be entered from the ground floor. This increased the space above by around 30 cm. A wall made of dry clay bricks was built on the southern wall of the first cellar and extends to the second floor. There are two openings in it. The exhaust gases from the stove were probably led out of the building through them, as at least the second opening is located directly above the smoke kitchen . It is also conceivable that there were simple windows. In the centuries that followed, alterations were made in the form of wall openings and new walls were set up.

In the 19th century, the street facade was given a brick wall. Comparatively little is known about the residents of the house. The carpenter Friedrich Schunk , then Hermann and then Hans Schunk, is known as the first owner in 1840 . In 1911, the house must have been rented out by the heirs, because there is no longer a resident in the city's address book with the surname Schunk. Subsequently, a postman, Otto Balke , lived in the house for many years . The rental contracts from this period have been preserved and also issued. In December 1952, Hildegard Schunk from Wandlitz asked the city of Mittenwalde to take over management of the building. The city complied with this request and from then on rented the property with the six apartments on it. Due to a lack of investment , however, the building increasingly fell into disrepair and was no longer habitable in the 1980s.

In 1998 the city carried out extensive renovation work on the building. The foundations described above were uncovered and the building history of the house was documented. The work took place under the direction of Carl Pause from the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and the State Archaeological Museum in Wünsdorf . In October 2001, the city handed the building over to the Heimatverein founded in 1993, which until then was located at 54 Yorckstraße. The opening took place on June 8, 2002. In 2005, a neighboring property with a forge and another property were added on which the association planted a vineyard with around 90 vines of the Regent and Phoenix varieties . The Mittenwald museum grape cultivated there , however, is only intended for representative purposes and is not on the open market. The forge opened in August 2011.

Permanent exhibition

The museum shows the history of the city from the Middle Ages to modern times in a total of 13 rooms . The historical cellar with the brick vault was exposed for this purpose and shows typical storage systems from the 17th to the 19th century. A living room from the Wilhelminian era can be seen on the ground floor . This is supplemented by depictions of the typical way of life in the 19th and 20th centuries, shown at weddings, club life and some high bikes . You can also see the history of the city's founding, the importance of salt for the residents of this time and the creation of the St. Moritz Church . There is a café on the ground floor.

The history of the city continues on the first floor. The effects of the plague , city ​​fires and the Thirty Years' War are shown . Another room shows everyday kitchen life in the 19th and 20th centuries as well as well-known personalities who were related to Mittenwalde. An extensive exhibition of dollhouses can be seen on the upper floor .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The half-timbered house Salzmarkt 5 and its history , website of the Heimatverein Mittenwalde eV, accessed on September 8, 2013.

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 '52.1 "  N , 13 ° 32' 5.5"  E