Historical Museum Saar

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The Saar Historical Museum on Schlossplatz in Saarbrücken (right)
The Gestapo cell in the Department of National Socialism on the Saar
View into the special exhibition hall
View into the moat

The Historical Museum Saar is the museum for the regional history of the Saarland and is located at the Saarbrücker Schlossplatz. The aim of the museum is to process and present the history of the state on the Saar over a period of 100 years up to approx. 1959 under cultural, - social, - economic, - industrial and technical-historical aspects. In addition, excavations of the Saarbrücken castle with the casemates can be used to understand the development from the castle to today's palace. The permanent exhibition is supplemented by temporary exhibitions.

The museum bus is waiting for a school class

history

The Historical Museum Saar (until 1994 "Regional History Museum") was founded in 1985 by the then Saarbrücken City Association, now the Saarbrücken Regional Association . The starting point was the rediscovery of one of five former Gestapo cells in the basement of Saarbrücken Castle in 1975, where the Gestapo had its headquarters from 1935 onwards. Today the cell is part of the exhibition at the time of National Socialism on the Saar , which opened on November 9, 1988. Since there was initially insufficient space and exhibits, the different departments of the museum were gradually built up one after the other. In 1989 and 1993 the permanent exhibition on the history of Saarland 1945–1959 and the First World War was added . In 2008 the permanent exhibition was again expanded and redesigned. It now comprised the new departments for the Saar region in the Empire 1870/1871 - 1914 and the Saar region under the administration of the League of Nations 1919/1920 - 1935. You can also visit the castle complex, which was excavated between 2003 and 2007. The sponsors of the museum are the Saarbrücken Regional Association (approx. 90%) and the Saarland (approx. 10%).
The archaeologist and historian Simon Matzerath has been the museum's executive director since October 2016.

architecture

View of the exhibition area on the Saar during the imperial era

The Saar Historical Museum is located on Schlossplatz south of Saarbrücken Castle on Talstrasse. The part above ground is a narrow, elongated building with a barrel roof. Most of the 2700 m² museum is located underground, under Schlossplatz. The architectural design comes from the Cologne architect Gottfried Böhm from 1993.

Exhibitions

Wooden knight in the exhibition area on the First World War. The hammered nails document donations of money.

Annually changing special exhibitions on art, culture and history of the Saar region in a national and international context are shown in the exhibition hall on the first floor. The permanent exhibition in the cellar shows the eventful history of the Saar area and today's Saarland from 1870 to the second half of the 20th century on the basis of art and design objects, but also many everyday objects. It comprises five departments: the Saar region in the Empire 1870 / 1871-1914 , the First World War 1914-1918 (this is one of the largest exhibition areas on the First World War in Germany), the Saar region in the interwar period under the administration of the League of Nations 1919 / 1920-1935 , the time of National Socialism on the Saar 1935-1945 and the Saarland in the post-war period until the Saar referendum in 1945-1959 . In the section on National Socialism there is an original 2.50 x 3.50 meter Gestapo cell, on the walls of which numerous inscriptions by the imprisoned forced laborers have been preserved. It is one of the most important didactically and pedagogically supervised places of remembrance in Saarland. The museum also leads to the ruins of the Saarbrücken castle complex from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 14 meters below Schlossplatz . The underground castle, a sight that is unique in Germany, includes a shooting chamber, fortifications, a ballroom built in the moat, a dungeon, a secret passage and the casemates from the 16th century. In addition, the From Castle to Castle department provides information about the development from the medieval Saarbrücken castle to the renaissance castle to today's baroque castle and about the life and everyday life of the respective residents. There are also objects from this period that were found during the excavations between 2003 and 2007.

Special exhibitions (selection)

  • 2019: The 20s. Life between tradition and modernity in the international Saar area
  • 2018: Power in stone. Castles, fortresses, palaces in Lorraine, Luxembourg and Saarland
  • 2017: Prominent people from Saarland. A selection from Countess Elisabeth into the 21st century
  • 2016: On the way on behalf of Stern - work by photojournalist Hans-Jürgen Burkard
  • 2015: Saarland. A European story
  • 2014: Show work - sculptures and photographs 1850–1950
  • 2013: "Canceled Time". Archives as treasuries of history
  • 2012: 90 minutes. With Ferdi Hartung in the Bundesliga
  • 2011: Saar-Rock History
  • 2010: Gottfried Böhm - Buildings and projects in Saarland
  • 2006: fully on the air! 50 years of Saarland broadcasting

literature

  • Simon Matzerath, Jessica Siebeneich (eds.), The 20s. Life between tradition and modernity in the international Saar area (1920–1935). Publications of the Historisches Museum Saar 4 (Berlin 2020).
  • Bernd Kissel, Angela Pfenninger, Simon Matzerath, Saarfari. Lilo and Olli travel through time. Publications of the Historisches Museum Saar 3 (St. Ingbert 2020).
  • Simon Matzerath (ed.), Prominent people from Saarland. From Countess Elisabeth into the 21st century. Publications of the Historisches Museum Saar 2 (Mainz 2017).
  • Reiner Jung, Thomas Roessler (Ed.), On the way on behalf of Stern. Work of the photojournalist Hans-Jürgen Burkard. Publications of the Historisches Museum Saar 1 (Saarbrücken 2016).
  • The future needs a past. Museum brochure (German, French), ed. from the Historisches Museum Saar, (Saarbrücken 1995)
  • Lieselotte Kugler: Festschrift for the opening of the new building for the Regional History Museum of the Saarbrücken City Association . Regional History Museum (Saarbrücken 1993).
  • The wall inscriptions of the Gestapo cell. Recording in the original wording, transliteration, translation of Aelitta Dalügge and Inge Plettenberg, ed. from the Saarbrücken city association. Regional History Museum (Saarbrücken 1988).

Web links

Commons : Historisches Museum Saar  - More pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Liselotte Kugler (Ed.): Time leaps. A look at the Saar History Museum. Saarbrücken 1996, p. 4th f .
  2. ↑ Liselotte Kugler (Ed.): Time leaps. A look at the Saar History Museum. Saarbrücken 1996, p. 4th f .
  3. ^ Gestapo cell in Saarbrücken Castle. Retrieved August 1, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Historical Museum Saar. Retrieved August 1, 2017 .
  5. ^ History of the Saar Historical Museum
  6. ↑ Historical Museum Saar. Retrieved August 1, 2017 .
  7. ^ Saar artists lexicon: Gottfried Böhm
  8. ^ Architects G. Böhm / N. Rosiny, K. Krüger / L. Rieger, E. Fissabre / AW Maurer , see: Festschrift for the opening of the new building for the Regional History Museum of the Saarbrücken City Association September 2, 1993.
  9. ↑ Continuity of the history of the cultivation: detail360.de ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.detail360.de
  10. ^ Archive of special exhibitions at the Saar History Museum. Retrieved August 1, 2017 .
  11. ^ Gestapo cell in Saarbrücken Castle. Retrieved August 1, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Historical Museum Saar. Retrieved August 1, 2017 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 48 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 29.6 ″  E