Local history museum of the Bessarabian Germans

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The local museum of the Bessarabian Germans was founded in Stuttgart in 1952 . A previous institution existed between 1922 and 1940 in Sarata in Bessarabia . In 2006 the local history museum was merged into the newly founded Bessarabiendeutschen Verein , which continues to operate the museum in Stuttgart- Ostheim unchanged after the renaming.

founding

The forerunner was the cultural history museum of the German colonists of Bessarabia , which was founded in Sarata (Bessarabia) in 1922 for the 100th anniversary of the local existence. It existed until the Bessarabian Germans were resettled in 1940 . After the Second World War , the museum was re-established as the Heimatmuseum der Bessarabiendeutschen by the supporting association Heimatmuseum der Deutschen von Bessarabien eV on May 24, 1952 in Stuttgart. At first it was housed in private rooms. From 1954 it was in some rooms in the old orphanage on Charlottenplatz, which the city of Stuttgart had made available. Since 1963 the seat has been in the house of the Bessarial Germans in Stuttgart. Initially the museum had an exhibition area of ​​78 m², after the renovation work completed in 1995 it is now (2010) 400 m². Due to the merger of the local history museum with the previous Bessarabian German associations in 2006, the museum is part of the Bessarabiendeutsche Verein .

Exhibition content

The museum presents the history of the Bessarabian Germans with information about the reasons for emigrating to Bessarabia in the 19th century, life and work in the Black Sea region and the political background to the resettlement of 1940. It also provides information about the settlement in occupied Poland as well as the escape from these eastern areas towards the end of World War II . Another chapter is the integration of the Bessarabian Germans in Germany and the emigration to other countries.

Exhibits are:

  • Emigration documents
  • Landscape photos from Bessarabia
  • Village plans of the former German villages
  • Agricultural and craft tools
  • toy
  • Household items
  • Musical instruments
  • Clothing, such as school uniforms

Integrated into the museum are the cultural assets of the Dobrudscha Germans , who joined the Bessarabian German Association in 2009 as the Landsmannschaft of the Dobrudscha and Bulgarian Germans . A separate department was installed in October 2016.

tasks

  • Presentation of exhibits from the 125-year history of the Bessarabian Germans and the Dobruja Germans between 1814 and 1940
  • Collection and archiving of originals, models, written and archival material from all walks of life of Germans in Bessarabia and Dobruja
  • Special library with literature on German settlement areas in the Eastern European and Black Sea regions, including Bessarabia, Dobruja , Bukovina , Poland, Russia
  • Image archive
  • Archive on German locations in Bessarabia ( hometown index )
  • Promotion, publication and distribution of local literature

Affiliated Organizations

Coat of arms of the Bessarabian Germans

The local history museum was closely connected with the earlier Bessarabian German associations:

literature

  • Ingo Rüdiger Isert: The local museum of the Germans from Bessarabia in: Yearbook of the Germans from Bessarabia - Heimatkalender 2007, Hanover, 2006, ISBN 3-9807392-8-7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Announcement of the Bessarabiendeutschen Verein eV, issue 1/2017, p. 19

Web links

Coordinates: 48 ° 47 ′ 3.8 ″  N , 9 ° 12 ′ 24.1 ″  E