Archaeological Museum Hamburg
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| place | Hamburg , Germany |
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The Archaeological Museum Hamburg - Stadtmuseum Harburg / Helms-Museum (until 2009 Helms-Museum - Hamburg Museum for Archeology and the History of Harburg ) in Hamburg-Harburg is the State Museum for Archeology , authority for monument preservation of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and at the same time city history museum for Harburg. It focuses on the presentation of North German prehistory and early history as well as the presentation of the city history of Harburg.
With more than 2.5 million cataloged objects, the museum has one of the most extensive archaeological collections in Northern Germany. At the same time, the museum is entrusted with the tasks of the state preservation of monuments in the federal state of Hamburg and the district of Harburg and is therefore also responsible for archaeological care in this area.
The museum has two exhibition areas, in the main building at Museumsplatz 2 (special exhibitions, library, future Harburg City Museum) and in the nearby house for the permanent archaeological exhibition (Archaeological Museum) at Harburg Rathausplatz 5.
It also looks after the 11th century Bischofsturm exhibition space in Hamburg's old town, the Fischbeker Heide archaeological hiking trail and the Hollenstedt castle wall as branch offices.
Main house
In addition to a special exhibition area, the main building on Museumsplatz houses the city history exhibition (currently closed), administration, offices, a specialist library and numerous work rooms such as restoration workshops , laboratories and magazines .
A hall is connected to the building, which is used by the Harburger Theater and is accessible via the shared foyer with the local café . Next to the entrance is the portal of the old Harburg town hall, which is embedded in the outer facade . The path from the main building to the Archaeological Museum and on to the town hall (“Museum Axis”), which was last redesigned from 2007 onwards, is also equipped with some objects on art, town and geological history, such as the Herzog-Otto-Stein , a 30-ton boulder Saale Ice Age , equipped.
(Location: 53 ° 27 ′ 33 ″ N , 9 ° 58 ′ 38 ″ E )
City history exhibition
The permanent exhibition on Harburg's city history, housed in a third location, the old Harburg fire station , is closed. In addition to special exhibitions on the city's history, it is planned to set up a new permanent exhibition. The future exhibition shows the history of the city of Harburg as well as the regional history of the northern Lüneburg Heath up to 1937. The focus of the exhibition is the period between 1527 and 1642, when Harburg was the residence of the Guelph dukes Otto I , Otto II and Wilhelm August of the Harburg line of the House of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , in which the city experienced an economically and culturally sustainable upswing. The subsequent expansion of Harburg into a garrison town with the conversion of the castle into a fortress are also discussed, as are the industrial development with the railway connection and the construction of the seaport in the 19th century and the strong population growth at the transition into the 20th century.
Library
The library of the Archaeological Museum Hamburg is the most extensive scientific special library on archeology in Northern Germany. The function of the reference library is primarily to provide the staff employed in the company with specialist literature, and after registration it is also open to the general public. The holdings include the subject areas of archeology, primarily prehistory and early history, with a focus on the Hamburg region, along with Germany and Europe, Harburg city and regional history, folklore and local history, as well as areas bordering on archeology such as B. Geology and Geography. There are three reading places and an IT workstation available to users in the rooms for research in the OPAC , on the Internet and for CD-ROM applications. In 2009 the library had a total of more than 50,000 volumes and 250 current journals . The holdings are gradually being digitally cataloged and can be researched online.
Permanent archaeological exhibition
In addition to the permanent archaeological exhibition, the building on Harburg Town Hall Square houses spacious rooms for museum educational work. Under the motto Adventure Archeology - Discover. Experience. Understand. The permanent exhibition presents 200,000 years of cultural and historical development of the people in Northern Germany up to the Middle Ages . The exhibits are divided into six thematic complexes: material, food, violence, death, innovation and mobility. The exhibition area on the ground floor, designed as an artificial excavation landscape, is primarily intended to appeal to children and young people. Subject-related finds from various areas of daily life are presented on the upper floor . Selected finds from the various parts of the city are shown on a large-scale Hamburg S-Bahn map, and a construction container and a small foam magazine provide insights into the daily work of archaeologists in the preservation of monuments.
The outstanding exhibits at the exhibition include the mesolithic paddle from Duvensee , the frontal bone of the skull from Hahnöfersand , the Neolithic skull burial from Metzendorf-Woxdorf , the oldest preserved pastry in Europe, the Spitzwecken from Ovelgönne , the remains of the folding stool from Daensen , the Iron Age holstein belt of Altengamme , the grave inventory of Krieger burial Putensen grave 150 and Krieger burial Hamburg-Marmstorf grave 216 , the Tangendorf disc brooch , a part of a screed path from the Wittmoor or Saxon triple Wulfsen horse burial , the fibula of meshes , the rider grave von Schnelsen , the coin treasures from Asendorf and Luhdorf or the copper bars from Wittenbergen .
(Location: 53 ° 27 ′ 30.9 ″ N , 9 ° 58 ′ 45.2 ″ E )
Museum education
An important work area of the museum is museum education . In three rooms, the museum offers numerous offers for children, school classes, but also courses for adults. One of the rooms is set up as a simulated cave, it has washable cave walls and is equipped with a special smoke extraction system, for example to safely demonstrate how to make a fire with historical means such as flint , fire steel , pyrite and tinder . November 15, 2012, the museum an interactive electronic museum guide as iTunes - App available for download, this is for from December 2012 Android be available.
Branch offices
Outside of the main building and the permanent archaeological exhibition, the museum has several branches.
Harburg archaeological window
Following the archaeological excavations in Harburger Schloßstraße , the Archaeological Window was opened in 2017 on the first floor of house number 39 , where information on the history of Harburg's oldest street and the excavation results is presented in three windows at multimedia stations. An open WiFi access point gives visitors the opportunity to share their feedback on the presentations via social networks .
Episcopal Castle
The Bischofsburg showroom in the basement of the St. Petri-Hof in Hamburg's old town shows the remains of a tower and a stone fountain surround from the 12th century. The stone ring of the tower foundation, made of boulders and measuring around 19 meters in diameter, is one of the oldest stone buildings in Hamburg's old town. Due to the proximity to the Hamburg Domplatz, the remains of a building connected to the Bishop's Tower or the Bishop's Castle are believed to have been the nucleus of the city of Hamburg. The foundations were discovered in 1962 during reconstruction after the Second World War and have been open to the public since 1969 in the form of a showroom in the basement of the St. Petri-Hof. After the new construction of the St. Petri-Hof, the showroom has been accessible via the in-house bakery branch since 2011.
(Location: 53 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ N , 9 ° 59 ′ 52 ″ E )
Archaeological hiking trail in the Fischbeker Heide
The archaeological hiking trail in the Fischbeker Heide was opened to the public in 1975 and comprises the largest closed group of monuments visible above ground in Hamburg. On the hiking trail, which was restored in 2002, soil monuments from the Neolithic to the Iron Age are explained at eleven stations on display boards.
(Location: 53 ° 27 ′ 7.7 ″ N , 9 ° 50 ′ 55.8 ″ E )
Hollenstedt castle wall
The castle wall, known as the Alte Burg or Karlsburg , is located about 1.5 km south of Hollenstedt in the Harburg district in Lower Saxony. The former ring wall with a ditch in front of it lies on the west bank of the Este . The Niederungsburg with a diameter of around 80 meters was built on a tongue of sand surrounded by two streams in the 9th century. Originally 8 meters wide and up to 4 meters high, the wall was constructed as a wooden structure with sod facing on both sides. Casemates and several houses lay on its inside . The entrance was on the west side, where a boardwalk ran in a gentle curve over the swampy terrain towards a gate. The wall was reconstructed in 1980 based on excavation results from the 1970s in the state it was in after the castle was abandoned. The excavator at the time, Claus Ahrens, dated the castle to the late 9th century based on the findings. In contrast, the results are also interpreted as the building of the Slavs between 804 and 817, when the Abodrites received the area through Charlemagne . After being destroyed by fire, the castle would have been rebuilt after a long time, presumably by the Stade Counts , around 900 and slowly deteriorated later.
(Location: 53 ° 21 ′ 10 ″ N , 9 ° 43 ′ 5.8 ″ E )
Harburg Castle
The establishment of a permanent exhibition on the history of the origins of the city of Harburg in the cellar vault of Harburg Castle is in the planning stage .
(Location: 53 ° 28 ′ 11 ″ N , 9 ° 59 ′ 7 ″ E )
Magazines
The museum has two large magazines. Initially, the property portfolio was outsourced to various locations. The majority of the objects were housed in the old Harburg fire station under partially conservation and logistically unfavorable conditions.
Central archaeological magazine
The archaeological central storage facility was set up in 2004 in the former freight forwarding warehouse in Harburger Traunweg using the latest in logistics and museum technology. Mainly large objects and ceramic finds are stored here.
City history depot
On January 30th, 2012, we moved into the historical depot in a former warehouse on Nartenstrasse. Before that, the 700 m² building was renovated and newly insulated to protect the sensitive objects from excessive temperature fluctuations. The building also houses a large office and a separate air-conditioned room for the museum's extensive historical photo collection.
tasks
In addition to the presentation and communication, the Archaeological Museum Hamburg takes on the tasks of the state preservation of monuments in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and the district of Harburg, in the state of Lower Saxony . It issues opinions on zoning plans , development plans and building applications , and advises citizens on issues relating to monument protection. It carries out scheduled excavations and emergency rescues, evaluates them scientifically and archives the finds and documentation. Archaeological finds are preserved and restored in the house. In addition, the museum maintains a comprehensive collection of photos and local files , in which the known monuments are listed. One of the most noted excavations of the museum was the excavation carried out between 2005 and 2007 under the motto Mythos Hammaburg on the Hamburg Domplatz between Speersort and Alter Fischmarkt, the location of the former bishop's castle. Since 2012, the museum has been carrying out extensive excavations on Harburger Schloßstraße in the run-up to redevelopment , which is one of the largest and most productive excavations in the city center in northern Germany. Currently, all archaeological and urban historical collections are being inventoried using a database. The data obtained will be made available within the institutions of the Hamburg Historical Museums Foundation; in addition, selected objects will be made accessible to the public via the Internet via the DigiCult or Google Art Project .
History of the museum
The museum was founded in 1898 as Museum zu Harburg , by the Hamburg merchant and later Harburg Senator August Helms together with other public figures who joined together to form a museum association. The aim was to create a museum for the then independent Prussian city of Harburg (Elbe) and its district. In 1902 the association moved into some exhibition rooms in a school building on Rathausplatz. In 1925, through the legacy of the founder's sons, the museum received a representative villa on Buxtehuder Strasse as an exhibition building and was renamed the Helms Museum . At this point in time, the collection already consisted of over 50,000 objects. In 1937 the Helms Museum became a state institution. In 1953, the then director Willi Wegewitz founded the open-air museum on the Kiekeberg as a branch of the museum, which was acquired by the Harburg district in 1987 . In 1955, today's main building was opened as a new building on Museum Square, as the former villa was destroyed by bombs in World War II. The new building also received an adjoining theater hall, which is still used by the Harburg theater to this day .
After the reallocation of the responsibilities of the Hamburg state museums in 1972 the archaeological collections of the Museum for Hamburg History were transferred to the museum and it became the Helms Museum. Hamburg Museum of Prehistory and Early History renamed. Since then, it has been the only specialist archaeological museum in Hamburg. In 1987 the museum was also given the task of maintaining state monuments in the city of Hamburg, and it was renamed the Hamburg Museum for Archeology and the History of Harburg. Helms Museum . For reasons of space, the permanent archaeological exhibition was moved to a building on Harburg Town Hall Square and the exhibition rooms in the main building were used for special exhibitions from now on.
Since 1990, the Harburg fire station has been available as the third area for the city's history and special exhibitions . In 1999 the Helms Museum was converted into a foundation under public law and was given the name Helms Museum. Hamburg Museum for Archeology and the History of Harburg . Transferred to the Hamburg Historical Museums Foundation on January 1, 2008 and since then has been named Archaeological Museum Hamburg | Helms Museum . From autumn 2008 the archaeological permanent exhibition was completely redesigned. During the renovation phase, a small exhibition and museum educational activities were continued in a specially rented shop in the neighboring Harburg Arcaden shopping center . On May 14, 2009 the archaeological permanent exhibition, designed to be suitable for children and families, was opened. At the same time, the city history exhibition in the fire station was closed and relocated to the rooms of the main building, which received a more spacious museum and theater foyer with catering. On January 1, 2013, the Archaeological Museum Hamburg | Harburg City History Museum Helms-Museum spun off from the Hamburg Historical Museums Foundation and transferred to a Helms-Museum Foundation to be established. The reopening of the permanent exhibition on the city's history in the main building is planned according to a new concept.
"Diorama of the Millennia"
The diorama of the millennia by Heino Jaeger and Harold Müller, which has been installed in the Helms Museum for many years and shows the development of Harburg's landscape and cultural history in 17 pictures from the Ice Age to the 1970s, was transferred to the Altonaer in the course of the redesign of the permanent exhibition Museum handed in.
Directors of the museum
- Albert Otto Gerber (1898–1901 curator)
- Theodor Benecke (1903–1923 conservator) 1923–1929 first director
- Willi Wegewitz 1930–1966
- Claus Ahrens 1966–1985
- Ralf Busch 1985-2000
- Eckart Hannmann 2000-2003
- Rainer-Maria Weiss since 2003
Museum Association
The Museum and Heimatverein Harburg Stadt und Land is the support association of the Archaeological Museum Hamburg and co-publisher of the Harburger Jahrbuch and Helms-Museum Aktuell magazines . Like the museum, the association concentrates on the two main areas of Harburg city history and archeology. The association organizes excursions and offers those interested in archeology the opportunity to participate in excavations. The focus of the urban history work concentrates on the industrial history of Harburg.
Editing
- Helms-Museum - Hamburg Museum of Prehistory and Early History - information sheet. Helms-Museum, Hamburg since 1973.
- Harburg yearbook. (Ed.) Together with Museum and Heimatverein Harburg-Stadt und -Land e. V., Hamburg-Harburg since 1938 ISSN 0722-6055 .
- Hammaburg - prehistoric and early historical research from the Lower Elbe region. (Ed.) Together with Hamburger Prehistoric Society e. V., Wachholtz, Neumünster since 1948 ISSN 0173-0886 .
- Helms-Museum Current. Announcements of the Museum and Heimatverein Harburg-Stadt und -Land e. V., Helms Museum. Since 2005.
literature
- Rüdiger Articus, Jochen Brandt, Elke Först, Yvonne Krause, Michael Merkel, Kathrin Mertens, Rainer-Maria Weiss: Archaeological Museum Hamburg, Helms-Museum: A tour through the ages (= publications of the Archaeological Museum Hamburg Helms-Museum . No. 101 ). Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-931429-20-1 (museum guide).
- Rüdiger Articus, Gorch von Blomberg, Tanja Gissel: The Harburg inland port . Ed .: Michael Merkel and Kay-Peter Suchowa (= publications of the Archaeological Museum Hamburg Helms-Museum . No. 109 ). Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-931429-29-4 .
- Ralf Busch (ed.): Hidden treasures in the collections . 100 years of the Helms Museum. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1998, ISBN 3-529-02001-X .
- Rüdiger Articus u. a .: Hamburg Museum for Archeology and the History of Harburg, Helms Museum . City history. Westermann, Braunschweig 1990, DNB 900612592 .
- Theodor Benecke: Catalog of the Harburg Museum on the Elbe . Helms Museum, Harburg (1901–1904).
- Theodor Benecke: A walk through the Harburg Museum (Elbe) . Schünemann, Bremen 1910.
- Hinrich Prigge: Guide through the Geological Department of the Helms Museum . Lühmann, Hamburg-Harburg 1965.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Imprint Archaeological Museum Hamburg, March 19, 2013.
- ↑ Articus, et al. a .: Archaeological Museum Hamburg, Helms Museum: A tour through the ages. P. 207.
- ^ Authority for Urban Development and the Environment. Duke Otto Stein.
- ↑ kataloge.uni-hamburg.de
- ↑ plus.google.com
- ^ Bent Jensen: The Harburg Archaeological Window . In: Messages from the Museum and Heimatverein Harburg-Stadt und -Land e. V., Helms-Museum (Ed.): Helms-Museum Aktuell . No. 44 , March 2017, p. 1 .
- ↑ Johannes Hoops: Reallexikon der Germanic antiquity. de Gruyter-Verlag, Berlin, 2nd edition. 2000. In Volume 15, pp. 75-77.
- ^ Peter Hornberger: Foreword . In: Messages from the Museum and Heimatverein Harburg-Stadt und -Land e. V., Helms-Museum (Ed.): Helms-Museum Aktuell . No. 44 , March 2017, p. 1 .
- ^ Sibylle Küttner: The depot for the city history . In: Messages from the Museum and Heimatverein Harburg-Stadt und -Land e. V., Helms-Museum (Ed.): Helms-Museum Aktuell . No. 25 , March 2012, p. 4 .
- ↑ New traces in the search for Harburg's story ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2013 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. to the Archaeological Museum Hamburg
- ↑ Archaeological Museum Hamburg DigiClut
- ^ Archaeological Museum Hamburg on Google Art Project
- ↑ Mirjam Briel: The "Reitergrab" of Hamburg-Schnelsen. Findings and interpretation - a contribution to Saxony research . University of Hamburg, Hamburg 2011, p. Appendix pp. 90–91 (Master's thesis).
- ↑ Claus Ahrens: Panorama of the Millennia - an attempt at a museum didactic problem . In: Museum and Heimatverein Harburg Stadt und Land e. V. (Ed.): Harburger Yearbook . No. 14 (1973/74) , ISSN 0722-6055 , pp. 126-136 .
- ↑ Kind communication from Dr. Articus dated May 14, 2009
- ↑ Sören Schumacher - Brief Senate Request of May 29, 2009 ( PDF 17 kB ( Memento of the original from April 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and remove then this note. (PDF))
- ^ Rüdiger Articus: The "forgotten" founder . In: Messages from the Museum and Heimatverein Harburg-Stadt und -Land e. V., Helms-Museum (Ed.): Helms-Museum Aktuell . No. June 22 , 2011, p. 1-2 .
- ↑ helmsmuseum.com
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