Local history museum Prien
 Prien local history museum in the historic carpenter's house from 1837 |
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| place | Prien a. Chiemsee 
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Local museum
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| opening | 1913 |
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Market town of Prien a.Chiemsee
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-113111 |
The Heimatmuseum Prien ( spelling : heimatMuseum Prien ) is located in the Bavarian market town of Prien am Chiemsee and is also known as the museum of the western Chiemgau . It shows exhibits on the history and art history of the region.
history
The initiative to found the museum came from the pharmacy owner Paul Weinhart (1864-1925) and principal teacher Lorenz Hartinger (1865-1921). Weinhart became director of the museum and a financial sponsor. The initiators were supported by their wives. In 2013, Second Mayoress Renate Hof described the donations from the artist group “Bären und Löwen”, which was dissolved in 1911, as “[…] the final impetus to found the Heimatmuseum in 1913.” Before it was founded, the surrounding communities were first visited to collect monetary donations and exhibits. The population was very willing to donate. The first inventory book from February 22, 1913 already recorded 1,500 exhibits. Therese von Bayern , daughter of Prince Regent Luitpold , donated her father's hunting hat with a cigar and a votive medal , which received attention in the press.
For the time being, the collection was housed in one and soon in three rooms of the schoolhouse from 1877. Still under the name “Museum Prien”, the museum was ceremonially handed over to the municipality of Prien on July 17, 1913, and then opened for visitors five days later. Royal Highnesses had already visited the exhibition a few days earlier. The museum was very popular with the population.
After Weinhart's death in 1925, Chief Postmaster Wilhelm Meyer took over the management of the museum, supported by main teachers Antoine Büttner and Benedikt Kronast. The demand for larger rooms remained unheard of. The building was increasingly needed for political purposes. In 1936 the entire collection had to be relocated to storage facilities, sheds and private houses. In the same year, the municipal council decided to build a new museum, but it was never implemented. In 1938, the renovation of the Kistler estate "Beim Mayrpaul" began in 1837 to accommodate the museum. Many of the floors and wooden interior fittings, such as benches and doors, are still original today.
With the beginning of the Second World War , funds became scarce. Nevertheless, it was officially opened on December 5, 1942, now under the name "Heimatmuseum". However, due to lack of space, the celebration took place in the school building. The house was opened to visitors on February 24, 1943. The museum soon had to be cleared again in order to create living space for refugees and those who had been bombed out. The American occupation forces confiscated the weapons collection.
On November 27, 1949, the museum was reopened on the ground floor of the building. Extension work could not be implemented. In 1951 there were only 150 visitors. From 1960 to 1964, thorough renovations took place. The State Office for Monument Preservation decided on a historically correct renovation. On June 3, 1963, the Chiemgau newspaper called on the population for donations under the heading: "A bulwark against the sellout of their homeland". The conversion took 33 months. The average age of the helpers was 72 years. The museum has now been expanded to 18 rooms. Since the former carpenter had also housed employees in his house, there were many small rooms on the upper floor, which are still used today to delimit the various museum collections. The museum was reopened on June 20, 1964 as part of the Priener Heimatwochen. The curator was a trade school director a. D. Prechtl.
The renovation work continued in the mid-1970s. The number of visitors rose to 5000 people annually. The first museum guide was written in 1977. The number of visitors rose in the mid-1980s to up to 10,000 people a year.
Museum director with names and years of employment: Paul Weinhart (1913–1925), Wilhelm Meyer (1925–1958), Georg Prechtl (1958–1962), F. Siebert (1962–1964), Adolf von Bomhard (1964–1966), Erwin Mrotzek (1966–1972), Peter Donauer (1973 until unknown)
Exhibitions
The themes of the exhibitions have changed over the decades. Today the various exhibition themes are spread over 20 rooms. Most of the exhibits date from around 1850. In the early 1980s, the museum was donated a Meissen tiled stove from a middle-class home.
The following topics can be visited: rural living, development of the Chiemgau costume , religious art , history of rule, railway construction in 1860 and early tourism, the Wittelsbachers in Chiemgau, the Chiemsee painter's gallery, local wildlife, fishing on the Chiemsee, craftsmanship
In 2018, the Priener Hut exhibition received the “100 Home Treasures” award from the Bavarian State Government. It shows the development of the initial straw hat to the historical traditional hat.
The last preserved Chiemsee dugout (around 1850) is on display in the museum's attic. Although it was shortened later, it is eight meters long. Six dugout canoes or dugout fragments are known to date from the Chiemsee . Three of them are kept in the local history museum in Prien. The exhibit is thematically accompanied by historical fishing gear.
The museum shows drawings and a model of the Prien tower relocation from 1736. The 40 m high tower was moved on rollers to the west of the church without being dismantled .
Gallery of the Chiemsee painters
Since the museum was founded in 1913, there has been a desire to have works by the so-called Chiemsee painters exhibited. Museum founder Lorenz Hartinger put it this way: “But not only those artists should be addressed who are motivated by the Chiemsee […], but all artists […] who […] painted around the Chiemsee or were otherwise connected to our homeland. “The foundation was made up of 16 paintings from the“ Bears and Lions ”friendship group, in which painters, officials and citizens, among others, frequented. Appropriate painters were contacted with a request for works. For example, the following painters have been represented since the beginning: Hugo Kauffmann , Hermann Kauffmann , Julius Frank , Carl Roux , Felix Schlesinger , Julius Noerr , Wilhelm Marc , Heinrich Heidner . Numerous others followed.
The first free art exhibition in Germany after the Second World War took place in Prien in August 1945. Numerous artists exhibited who had no exhibition opportunities during the Nazi era .
At some point the existing rooms in the local history museum were no longer sufficient for the 300 exhibits at the time. Therefore, the painting collection was moved to the “Gallery in the Old Town Hall” in 1985 for reasons of space. Nowadays, the Chiemsee painters are in the extension of the historical museum building. Here the subject is strictly regional, while the town hall gallery is open to all topics. In 2012 the museum's painting collection was reorganized. The historical gallery today shows works from 1800 to the present day.
gallery
Exhibition Wittelsbacher in Chiemgau
Tiled stove from the Fraueninsel from the 17th century.
Exhibition showcase on religious art
Living room of bourgeois living culture from the 19th century.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Karl-J Aß, Culture Commissioner Markt Prien: Heimatmuseum Prien am Chiemsee with the historical gallery of the Chiemsee painters . The museum of the western Chiemgau. Ed .: Prien Marketing GmbH. 2015.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Dr. Max Gimple: 75 years of Prien a. Chiemsee . Greetings. Ed .: Karl J. Aß, Peter Donauer. 1988.
- ↑ "Bears and Lions" in the "Kleinod". Oberbayerisches Volksblatt GmbH & Co. Medienhaus KG, July 18, 2013, accessed on August 19, 2019 .
- ↑ HeimatMuseum Prien am Chiemsee. In: Markt Prien am Chiemsee. Markt Prien am Chiemsee, District Office Rosenheim, accessed on August 18, 2019 .
- ^ Prien local history museum. Prien Marketing GmbH, accessed on August 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Bavarian State Ministry of Finance, for Regional Development and Homeland Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Art: List of excellent local treasures. (PDF) In: Press Release No. 272/18. Bavarian State Ministry of Finance, Regional Development and Homeland, July 13, 2018, accessed on August 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Karl-J Aß, Culture Commissioner Markt Prien: Heimatmuseum Prien am Chiemsee with the historical gallery of the Chiemsee painters . Costume is fashion. Ed .: Prien Marketing GmbH. 2015.
- ↑ a b Karl-J Aß, Culture Commissioner Markt Prien: Heimatmuseum Prien am Chiemsee with the historical gallery of the Chiemsee painters . Fishermen and sailors. Ed .: Prien Marketing GmbH. 2015.
- ↑ Dr. Tobias Pflederer: The dugout canoes from Prien am Chiemsee. Bavarian Society for Underwater Archeology V., accessed on August 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Karl-J Aß, Culture Commissioner Markt Prien: Heimatmuseum Prien am Chiemsee with the historical gallery of the Chiemsee painters . The Prien tower shift 1736. Ed .: Prien Marketing GmbH. 2015.
- ↑ a b Dr. Max Gimple: 75 years of Prien a. Chiemsee . The painting collection. Ed .: Karl J. Aß, Peter Donauer. 1988.
- ↑ a b Karl-J Aß, Culture Commissioner Markt Prien: Heimatmuseum Prien am Chiemsee with the historical gallery of the Chiemsee painters . 200 years of the Chiemsee artist landscape. Ed .: Prien Marketing GmbH. 2015.