Local history museum of the city of Wilsdruff

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The school that has housed the museum since 1919 (1912)

The local history museum of the city of Wilsdruff , which was once called Heimatsammlung Wilsdruff , was built up by senior teacher Artur Kühne (1881–1950) from Wilsdruff and teacher Alfred Ranft (1895–1978) from Blankenstein as a local and natural history collection and opened in 1919. Since then, it has been on the ground floor of today's Oberschule am Gezinge in Wilsdruff. Before that, there were provisional exhibitions from 1909 in the tower room of the Wilsdruffer Nikolaikirche and in the town's gymnasium at the time. After the museum remained closed from 1970, it was preserved and carefully secured for posterity before the fall of the Wall, initially under museum director Peter Wunderwald and volunteer helpers from the region - until it was temporarily moved to the school auditorium (due to the school renovation). Initially, the reconstruction of the museum in the city's Jakobikirche was planned, for which conversions have already taken place there. The reconstruction was then entrusted to the local group Wilsdruff of the Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz eV, including Alfred Ranft's son, in the traditional attic rooms of the current high school. In March 1999 the museum was able to reopen. Significantly involved in the reconstruction and since then the honorary leader has been Dr. rer. nat. Rolf Görner (1924–2009). Today the museum is run by the pedagogue Angelika Marienfeldt and the historian Dr. phil. Michael Blümel headed.

A major concern of today's exhibition is to largely preserve the character typical of a local history museum from the 1920s to the 1930s, which is expressed in a corresponding variety and density of exhibits and topics. The main focus of the exhibition is geology, prehistory and early history, urban constitution and administration, manorial rule (manor), battle of Kesselsdorf, agriculture, urban handicrafts, associations, bourgeois living, post and transport, industrialization / industry, First World War . The collection includes exhibits from the entire so-called Wilsdruffer Land , which extends between the Elbe and Bobritzsch as well as Weißeritz and Triebisch , northeast of the Tharandt Forest . The museum owns numerous works by the Wilsdruffer painter Felix Funk (1905–1976), whose life's work was dedicated to a special exhibition on the occasion of his 100th birthday.

A central exhibit is a diorama in which a scene from the battle of Kesselsdorf on December 15, 1745 is vividly recreated with 1850 tin figures. The importance of the city as a location for furniture production is illustrated, among other things, by the patent certificate issued by the Imperial Patent Office in Berlin from 1906, by means of which Theodor Porsch had his 'kitchen table with extendable washbasin', initially sold under the name Porschs Original , protected. There is also an exhibition on the furniture town of Wilsdruff (with steam and wood processing machines) at the headquarters of the Saxon Steam Engine Association Wilsdruff eV, in a former furniture factory on Wilsdruffer Fabrikstrasse, which u. a. is open for the steam meeting in mid / end of April and for the day of the open Dankmales in September. In addition, the IG Verkehrsgeschichte Wilsdruff eV maintains a vehicle exhibition on the former Wilsdruff network of the Saxon narrow-gauge railways at the former Wilsdruff stop and at the locomotive shed from the former Wilsdruff station.

literature

  • W. Rudolf Leonhardt: The Wilsdruffer Heimatsammlung in Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz Dresden, communications, issue 5 to 6, volume XVII, Dresden 1928
  • Artur Kühne / Felix Funk : Our Wilsdruffer home collection. A leader , Wilsdruff 1931
  • A. Kühne / A. Ranft: History and stories in and around Wilsdruff - A home book for the Wilsdruffer Land , Association for Nature and Heimatfreunde (ed.), Wilsdruff 1930 (Volume I), 1931 (Volume II) and reprint 1994, Wilsdruffer Tageblatt, Dr. Rolf Görner on behalf of the Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz eV, local group Wilsdruff (Ed.), Meißner Tageblatt Verlag GmbH, ISBN 3-929705-01-X
  • Rolf Görner: Wilsdruff. Pictures from his story , Horb 2003; ISBN 3-89570-838-0
  • Annett Heyse: New museum directors sort school history , in Sächsische Zeitung, Freital edition, May 20, 2010

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Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  N , 13 ° 32 ′ 12.3 ″  E