Heinrich Sauermann House

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The Heinrich-Sauermann-Haus of the Museumsberg Flensburg, front side (aerial view).
The Heinrich Sauermann House in 2011
Boy's face on the facade of the building
Two brightly painted gables of the building.
Sundial on the south side of the building

The Heinrich-Sauermann-Haus is a museum building in Flensburg and was built at the beginning of the 20th century to house a municipal arts and crafts museum . When the building got its current name is unclear. The building is now one of the city's cultural monuments .

Building history

Establishment

The museum building was erected in the years 1900–1903, above Rahthausstrasse , in the park area on the eastern edge of Christiansenpark , in the vicinity of the Hans Christiansen House that was built immediately before . In particular, the building was intended to house the arts and crafts collection founded by Heinrich Sauermann in 1876 , which had only been temporarily housed for years. The castle-like building was created according to plans by the secret building officer Karl Mühlke from Schleswig in the style of the Nordic Renaissance and has a certain resemblance to Frederiksborg Castle . Mühlke used a floor plan by the Schulz & Schlichting architectural office from 1891 for his planning .

Design of the building facade

Heinrich Sauermann is said to have played a major role in the multifaceted design of the building's facade. Elements of this facade are, for example, a Flensburg coat of arms above the main entrance, the inscription above the central entrance on the back: “Work staelt - Art animated”, a sundial on the south side of the building, a Nordic dragon head and a German imperial eagle on the west side of the building

use

The museum was inaugurated in 1903, Heinrich Sauermann became its first museum director and remained so until his death from heart failure just one year later. Sauermann's school for cabinet makers and carvers apparently also moved into the building. It was not until 1905 that work began on the staircase that leads from Rathausstrasse up to the museum.

In 1933, the German Christians , a group loyal to the Nazis , obtained a majority in all important church bodies after rigged church elections. In the same year, the 450th birthday of the reformer Martin Luther , a Luther oak was planted on the museum forecourt . At the same time, the area of ​​the museum was named after Martin Luther, so that from now on the museum had the address Lutherplatz 1 . During the National Socialist era , the museum was apparently called the “Grenzlandmuseum”.

At the end of the Second World War , in May 1945, the last Reich government under Karl Dönitz settled four kilometers away in Flensburg- Mürwik . Since May 3rd, some low-ranking people who came to Flensburg in the course of the relocation of the Reich government are said to have camped in the Grenzlandmuseum. Shortly afterwards the occupation of the city began, so that the special area Mürwik became the last enclave of the Third Reich .

After the Second World War, the exhibition was redesigned. Less significant collection items were placed in the museum's magazines. In 1984 the Flensburg Maritime Museum was set up at the Flensburg harbor , and the old city museum was often only called the Old Museum afterwards . In 1997, the Hans Christiansen House, which previously served as a school, was opened as part of the newly established museum complex Museumsberg Flensburg . In the same year Lutherplatz was renamed Museumsberg . In return, the city decided to set up the Luther Park not far from the Flensburg town hall . Since then, the Heinrich-Sauermann-Haus has had the address Museumsberg 1. In 2001, the Natural Science Museum was set up on the ground floor of the building and has since been part of the Museumberg.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lutz Wilde: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 430
  2. ^ Lutz Wilde: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 430
  3. ^ Eiko Wenzel, Henrik Gram: Zeitzeichen, Architektur in Flensburg, 2015, page 82
  4. ↑ The Flensburg Museum of Applied Arts in the Empire - Schleswig-Holstein and local identity, Flensburg culture and national awareness ( memento of July 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on: March 23, 2016
  5. ^ Lutz Wilde: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 430
  6. ^ Lutz Wilde: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 430
  7. ↑ Sauermann's ties to home and the Prussian state , accessed on: April 16, 2018
  8. ^ Eiko Wenzel, Henrik Gram: Zeitzeichen, Architektur in Flensburg, 2015, page 82
  9. ↑ The Flensburg Museum of Applied Arts in the Empire - Schleswig-Holstein and local identity, Flensburg culture and national awareness ( memento of July 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on: March 23, 2016
  10. ^ Lutz Wilde: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 430
  11. ↑ The Flensburg Museum of Applied Arts in the Empire - Schleswig-Holstein and local identity, Flensburg culture and national awareness ( memento of July 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on: March 23, 2016
  12. ↑ Sauermann's ties to home and the Prussian state , accessed on: April 16, 2018
  13. ↑ The Flensburg Museum of Applied Arts in the Empire - Schleswig-Holstein and local identity, Flensburg culture and national awareness ( memento of July 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on: March 23, 2016
  14. ↑ Sauermann's ties to home and the Prussian state , accessed on: April 16, 2018
  15. ^ Lutz Wilde: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 430
  16. ↑ Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article: Museumsberg
  17. ↑ Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article: Lutherplatz
  18. ↑ Broder Schwensen, Gerhard Paul and Peter Wulf: Between Consensus and Criticism. Facets of cultural life in Flensburg 1933-1945 , Jarplund-Weding 1999 p. 69 and 73
  19. ↑ Malte Klein: Das Kunstgewerbemuseum Flensburg (reading sample) , p. 4 (table of contents); accessed on: April 16, 2018
  20. ^ State Center for Civic Education Schleswig-Holstein (ed.): Der Untergang 1945 in Flensburg (lecture on January 10, 2012 by Gerhard Paul ), p. 12.
  21. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine : May 1945: added time in Mürwik , from: August 8, 2016; accessed on: April 16, 2018
  22. ^ Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 142
  23. ↑ Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article: Lutherplatz
  24. ^ Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg! , Flensburg 2009, article: Lutherpark

Web links

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Coordinates: 54 ° 47 ′ 8.7 "  N , 9 ° 25 ′ 54"  E