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Philippsruhe Castle

The Historical Museum in Hanau is the largest of the “Museums of the City of Hanau”.

Stocks

The museum shows holdings from both the city of Hanau and the Hanau History Association . The majority of the collection is presented in Philippsruhe Castle , but the prehistoric and early historical collection in Steinheim Castle , in the Steinheim district of Hanau . The Historical Museum is the central museum for regional history and art history .

history

The Hanau Historical Museum emerged from the Museum of the Hanau History Association, which was first opened in 1875 in the office building on Schlossplatz . The collection was later shown in the Old Town Hall. When the German Goldsmith's House was established there, most of the collection moved to the Hanau City Palace . Part of the collection was destroyed in the bombing of World War II.

In 1967, three years after the Hanau city administration moved out of Philippsruhe Palace, which it had used provisionally as a town hall during the war and post-war years, the Historical Museum was opened there on June 9, 1967. The city of Hanau and the Hanauer Geschichtsverein 1844 eV designed the presentation together. The collections were partially integrated into the historical premises of the Electors and Landgraves of the House of Hesse-Kassel in the Corps de Logis .

With the Hessian regional reform in 1974, a number of surrounding places were incorporated that also wanted to be represented in museums. This led to a new museum concept: the historical museum remained in Philippsruhe Castle, the pre-historical and early history collection was relocated to Steinheim Castle in 1986 (see Steinheim Castle Museum ) and folklore, handicrafts, and crafts have been made in a former power station in Hanau-Großauheim ever since. Agriculture and industry as well as the August Gaul collection are presented ( Museum Großauheim ). Today's exhibition in the Historical Museum in Philippsruhe Palace dates back to 1987.

Showrooms

The museum is divided into

  • the lower floor, in today's unadorned rooms,
  • the first floor in the former residential wing and
  • the top floor used for temporary exhibitions.

Exhibits

Lower floor

Isaak Soreau: Fruit baskets, fruit bowl, porcelain bowl, flower vase and vegetables , oil on canvas, 1645

The lower floor is dedicated to the regional history of the city of Hanau . A site plan by Christoph Metzger - actual demolition of the city and Vestung Hanau - from 1665 shows the medieval castle, old town and new town. Original documents, posters, uniforms, badges and medals as well as everyday objects explain the story with a focus on the German Revolution 1848/49 , Hanau in the German Empire , in the First World War , in the Weimar Republic , in the Third Reich , in the Second World War, in which the old town was last was completely destroyed by Allied bombing on March 19, 1945, as well as the post-war and reconstruction period until the 1960s.

Historical documents, paintings and objects are shown. A video film documentation supplements the exhibits. An art-historical outline completes the historical exhibition:

  • Hugo Leven , head of the Hanau Drawing Academy from 1909 to 1933, provided the first designs for kitchen inventory (coffee and teapot, punch bowl, jardinière, table lamp, kettle) in a style that anticipated Art Deco and Bauhaus .
  • The silversmiths Christian Dell and Wilhelm Wagenfeld , students of the drawing academy, are presented as designers of characteristic Bauhaus table lamps.
  • Reinhold Ewald (1890–1974) was a pupil in the German Empire and a lecturer at the drawing academy in the Weimar Republic. As a painter he represented Classical Modernism and New Objectivity in Hanau .
  • Paul Hindemith , born in Hanau, is presented as a composer and painter.
  • Some animal sculptures by August Gaul , also born in Hanau and trained at the drawing academy, are presented. Most of the exhibits created by him are shown in the museum in the Hanau district of Grossauheim .

In 2010, with the help of the Hessian Cultural Foundation, the painting Fruit baskets, fruit bowls, porcelain bowls, flower vases and vegetables by the Hanau painter Isaak Soreau was acquired in 1645 .

Beletage

Murano glass chandelier (19th century) in the former building of the Landgrave Maria Anna of Prussia

On the main floor is the historicist interior design of the titular Landgrave Friedrich Wilhelm of Hesse-Rumpenheim and his wife, Maria Anna Friederike of Prussia from 1880 to 1884 Wood marquetry and stucco get. Apart from a few majolica tiled stoves and two Venetian chandeliers, the furniture and inventory are no longer present in the rooms - some of them are now in the Fasanerie hunting lodge near Fulda .

Aside from the former landgrave's apartment, a collection on this floor is dedicated to the Hanau-born Brothers Grimm , and the Hanau Paper Theater Museum has been an independent small museum with three rooms since 1990 .

The record number of visitors to the museum was in 1987 - the year it reopened after the previous fire at Philippsruhe Palace in 1984 and still without admission fee - with more than 71,000 visitors. Today the number is around 26,000 visitors per year.

Worth knowing

  • There has been a support association for the museum since 2016.

literature

  • Holger Dell: Historisches Museum Schloss Philippsruhe - How the Counts once lived. In: Hendrik Markgraf (Ed.): Museumslandschaft Rhein-Main. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-7973-0490-0 , pp. 67-69.
  • Klaus Hoffmann: Philippsruhe Castle. From the baroque palace to the historical museum. CoCon, Hanau 2001.
  • Karl Ludwig Krauskopf: 150 years of the Hanau History Association. Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 33, 1994 pp. 197-239.
  • Anton Merk, Richard Schaffer-Hartmann: 150 years of the Hanau History Association. The collection. Catalog for the exhibition Gallery in the Museum Hanau Schloß Philippsruhe 18 Sept. - 6 Nov. 1994. Published by the museums of the city of Hanau 1994, ISBN 3-926011-28-9 .
  • Cultural Office of the City of Hanau (Ed.): Museums of the City of Hanau. German goldsmith's house . Hanau no year (approx .: 1980)
  • Hessischer Museumsverband (Hrsg.): Museums in Hessen. Kassel 1994, pp. 335-337. ISBN 3-9800508-8-2

Web links

Commons : Historisches Museum Hanau  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage of the friends and sponsors Historisches Museum Hanau Schloss Philippsruhe e. V.

Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 38.6 ″  N , 8 ° 53 ′ 32.7 ″  E