Seelze local history museum
The Heimatmuseum Seelze is a regional museum for the city of Seelze ( Hanover region ) with its districts and incorporated localities. Since autumn 2018 it has been located in the listed "Alten Krug" in Seelze, Hannoversche Straße 15.
history
- New location in Seelze
The museum association found new rooms in the historic half-timbered building "Alter Krug" in Seelze. The museum reopened in autumn 2018.
- From 1991 to 2018 in letter
The by autumn 2018 used by the museum building in the street in the sand in the district Seelzes Letter in 1856 for a shoemaker as a four-column - half-timbered house built and is an architectural monument . In 1991 the city of Seelze designed rooms for the museum in this house.
Since then, the Museum Association for the City of Seelze eV, founded in the same year, has been running the museum after setting up the rooms as a museum. The members of the museum association, grants from the city of Seelze as well as company and citizen donations enable museum work. As early as 1964, collections of local historical importance found a museum location in a home parlor in the then still independent town of Letter. After further stations, the half-timbered house was found in Letter for 27 years
Former permanent exhibition in letter
In some of the rooms on the ground floor the half-timbering that forms the framework of the house can still be seen in places. Behind the glazed Groot Dör there is a large hall.
- Good room
A living room in the style of the time around 1900 was furnished with furniture, curtains, pictures, dishes, cloakroom and other inventory in the style of petty bourgeois residents. Civil weddings have been held in this room since 2001.
- Shoemaker's workshop
A shoemaker's workshop showed exhibits from the beginning of the 20th century. The shoemaker's sewing machine was not yet equipped with an electric motor. A kerosene lamp served as lighting, the light of which is bundled with the help of a glass ball so that the Schumacher could see better at his workplace. This is the cobbler ball . Certificates of the shoemaker's qualifications and an old price list were just as missing as wooden nails, leather, soles and other shoemaker's supplies.
- Hair salon
The establishment of a hairdressing salon dates from around 1920. The long leather used to sharpen the razor hung on the wall. The electrically operated heating hoods for burning in the perms were ready. In front of the customers there were sinks for washing their hair.
- Village schoolroom
The pupil's benches and seats, the teacher's standing desk and the blackboard all date from around 1900. The panels and maps on the wall were created at a time when the Mittelland Canal had not yet been built by Seelze. In this room there were regular school lessons for pupils of the Seelz elementary schools, in which the today unknown German cursive script, the script of their great-grandparents, was taught and practiced. A pen was used to write on slate boards. Five volunteers slipped into the role of teachers 100 years ago. Couples with a large number of guests could also marry in this room. About every fourth wedding took place in Letter in the Heimatmuseum.
- Life in Seelze
From the beginning of the settlement - with finds from early history - to the present, the part of the permanent exhibition under the heading "Life in Seelze" was dedicated to the history of the city of Seelze and its eleven districts. Topics were "Beginnings and early settlement history" and "Traditional agriculture and rural housekeeping". Under "Change in the 19th and 20th centuries" the industrial revolution with the settlement of a chemical factory, the development of Seelze into an important railway settlement and the immigration of displaced persons and refugees after the Second World War were dealt with.
- Former permanent exhibition at the old location in Letter
The hall during the construction of an exhibition
Rural life and urban development
Schoolroom from 1900
Shoemaker's workshop with a shoemaker's ball
Hairdressing salon from 1920
Outside view of the parlor from 1900
Special exhibitions
Several times a year the museum organizes exhibitions on regional as well as general topics. 83 of these exhibitions were shown from 1991 to 2016. In the years since 2010, topics have been: "Art in Museum III", "Barrel organs - Weber Collection", "Sugar beet cultivation in the Calenberger Land and the poppy sugar cube collection", "Museum treasures - What we have, what we are looking for", "Once upon a time" - Fairy tales in the local history museum, “ Adolf Wissel - a painter from Seelze”, “Christmas region Erzgebirge”, “100 years of the Catholic Church in Seelze”, “Bethlehem is everywhere - nativity scenes from all over the world”, “Art in Museum IV”, “The First World War 1914-1918 ”,“ Life in Seelze in the 20th Century ”,“ Angels Accompany Us ”,“ Old Handicrafts ”,“ Old Toys - Children's Worlds - Retrospective ”.
For 2016, the event of the opening of the Mittelland Canal 100 years ago will be taken up. A special exhibition is about “100 years of the Mittelland Canal and its significance for the city of Seelze”. In 2017 there was the exhibition "Art in the Museum", in 2018 the exhibitions "Children in Seelze from 1905 to the 1960s" and "School through the centuries - the development of the Seelze village schools".
- Special exhibitions
2012: Special exhibition "Christmas Land Erzgebirge" - pyramids
Mountain parade - figures from the Ore Mountains
A Christmas angel looks out of the living room
2015: Special exhibition "Angels accompany us"
Singing angels in a showcase
View of the angel exhibition
Publications
After the "Seelzer Geschichtsblätter" series, which appeared from 1988 to 1998 and in which members of the museum association published about historical events in Seelze and its region, was discontinued, the museum association issues publications on the occasion of special exhibitions in which "the historical local and regional environment of the respective special exhibition "is illuminated. In this series appeared among others:
- Heinz Gehrke, Horst Henze, Ingrid Kretschmann and Erika Turek: Heimatmuseum Seelze. 25 years. 1991-2016. Memories and balance sheet , Seelze 2016
- Norbert Saul: Seelze in old views - photos from all parts of the city from 1900 onwards, Seelze 2011
- Norbert Saul: Sugar beet cultivation and sugar production in the Calenberger Land and elsewhere . A time table, Seelze 2010
- various authors: 100 years of the Seelze marshalling yard - 1909-2009 , Seelze 2009
- Where we come from - 150 years of immigration to Seelze . Seelzer life stories. A reading book, Seelze 2007
- Karl-Heinz Pfeiffer and Norbert Saul: "If we are tired from work, there is still strength for a song" - music and song in Seelze. Musical associations and groups in Seelze from the beginning until today, Seelze 2005
- Karl-Heinz Pfeiffer and Norbert Saul: Housing shortage and optimism - The 50s in Seelze , Seelze 2004
- Karl-Heinz Pfeiffer: Churches in Seelze 2003
- Karl-Heinz Pfeiffer: Waterways and Bridges in Seelze , 2003
- Karl-Heinz Pfeiffer and Norbert Saul: 100 years of the Seelze chemical site , 2002
- Hans-Joachim Böttcher and Norbert Saul: chamomile, dandelion and dill. On the use of plants in the field, forest and garden , Seelze 2000
- Karl-Heinz Pfeiffer and Norbert Saul: From the Kienspan to the electric light bulb , Seelze 2000
- Norbert Saul: School back then . Reader on the history of the Seelz school system, 1999
- Norbert Saul: 150 Years of the Railway in Seelze , 1997
Museum seal of approval
For the period from 2016 to 2022, the museum has again been awarded the seal of approval of the Lower Saxony-Bremen Museum Association . This happened for the first time in 2007 for the period up to 2014. The prerequisite for this seal of quality is compliance with the standards of the German Museum Association . The certificate states: "The museum achieves a quality that meets the standards in the areas of permanent institutional and financial basis, mission statement and museum concept, museum management, qualified staff, collecting, preserving, researching and documenting, exhibiting and communicating."
Museum days
On museum days in summer, craftsmen demonstrate how they work in front of the museum, and sometimes visitors let them try their skills. Most of the craftsmen's products can be bought. The respective special exhibition in the museum is open. Food and drink stands and music performances invite you to linger.
Museum Association
All activities in the museum are organized by members of the Museum Association for the City of Seelze eV, from the conception of the exhibitions and their design to the procurement of exhibits, to the guided tours for interested parties and groups to supervision on opening Sundays. The members of the museum association are also responsible for managing the funds, soliciting donations, writing texts for the exhibitions, the basic graphic design of media such as information boards and their implementation, as well as assembling, dismantling and managing the museum items in storage. The museum director also comes from among the members of the association. In recent years these have been Karl-Heinz Pfeiffer and Erika Turek. Heinz Gehrke is currently the exhibition manager. The museum association organizes excursions for its members every year. The goals are “places with an eventful past”. On the occasion of its 25th anniversary, the association issued a publication "Memories and Balance Sheet" in 2016.
Web links
- Museum website
- Museum on Hannover.de
- The museum on the website of the Lower Saxony and Bremen Museums Association
See also
List of architectural monuments in Seelze
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the museum association
- ↑ Hannoversche Allgemeine, supplement Leinezeitung, from April 25, 2016 ( online edition )
- ↑ Website of the museum [1]
- ↑ a b Leinezeitung, regional edition Seelze from July 18, 2013 digitized
- ↑ Website of the museum [2]
- ^ Report of the Museum Association Website of the association
- ^ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of April 8, 2013 online edition
- ↑ Report in Seelze-Citynews-Online from June 25, 2014 Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 22, 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.
- ↑ Report in Myheimat from July 13, 2015 [3]
- ↑ Report in Myheimat from November 9, 2015 [4]
- ^ Report in Myheimat from February 23, 2016 [5]
- ↑ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from March 16, 2016 online edition
- ↑ Website of the museum [6]
- ↑ Overview on the website of the museum , accessed on October 31, 2019
- ↑ Presentation of the museum association Website of the association
- ↑ Press release of the Museum Association of January 27, 2016 [7]
- ↑ Website of the museum [8]
- ↑ Website of the museum [9]
- ^ Museum website - page 6 , accessed on February 11, 2019
- ^ Website of the museum association [10]
- ↑ Heinz Gehrke, Horst Henze, Ingrid Kretschmann and Erika Turek: Heimatmuseum Seelze. 25 years. 1991-2016. Memories and balance sheet , Seelze 2016
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 45.6 " N , 9 ° 35 ′ 37.6" E