Historical Museum Wallerfangen

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Historical Museum Wallerfangen on the Adolphshöhe

The Historical Museum Wallerfangen is a supraregional museum for the history of the community of Wallerfangen and the Saargau with reference to the corresponding history of the Saarlouis district , the Saarland and the entire SaarLorLux region. The museum uses a variety of texts, visualizations and exhibits to explain the time span from prehistory and early history to modern times .

exhibition

The four stages of the story presented are:

  1. The origin of Villeroy & Boch in Wallerfangen
  2. From the county of Wallerfangen to the capital of the German-speaking province of Lorraine
  3. Wallerfangens Gallo-Roman mining
  4. Catfish catching as a Celtic prince seat around 500 BC Chr.

In addition to the permanent exhibition, temporary exhibitions from various historical and cultural areas are offered. The museum is operated by the Wallerfangen Local Research Association .

history

The local history researcher Theodor Liebertz (1869–1959) from Wallerfang
Products from the Wallerfanger ceramics factory in the showrooms of the Wallerfangen History Museum
True to the original, usable replica of the Eichenborn depot find

The museum on the Adolphshöhe was founded on March 9, 1983 as a local museum, which was planned by Wallerfang local researcher Theodor Liebertz at the end of the 19th century. Liebertz had already started buying up products from the Wallerfang ceramics factory in 1892 in order to display them in a local museum. At the end of 1955, because of his advanced age, he handed over his entire scientific estate to the Wallerfanger Verkehrsverein. The tourist office in turn suggested setting up a local history museum in the local council. Until it was realized, Liebertz's entire estate was to be stored in the attic of the school halls on Adolphshöhe.

In January 1956, the Kreisanzeiger called on the population to donate museum exhibits, especially rare Wallerfanger dishes. However, no further steps were taken. It was not until 1976 that a group of people came together on the initiative of Hans Neis, the “Verein für Heimatforschung Wallerfangen e. V. ”founded. In a former school building on Adolphshöhe there was a place to stay for the exhibits that had been collected so far. However, essential parts of Liebertz's ceramic collection were lost during the long years of storage. In order to be able to adequately represent the ceramic tradition of Wallerfanger, the working group "Historical Wallerfanger Ceramics" was founded in 1986 within the local history association. Numerous purchases, donations and loans made it possible to document the town's ceramic tradition for the first time. In addition, with her dissertation published in 1995, the art historian Beatrix Adler presented a comprehensive historical overview of the history of the Wallerfang ceramics company and a catalog of the products manufactured there.

In 2011 the facade of the building was renovated and adapted again to the architectural shape of the Adolphshöhe square. After a two-year renovation period from 2013 to 2015, the former local history museum was reopened as the "Wallerfangen Historical Museum". It presents 3000 years of history of the place and the region. Housed in a former school building, the museum is part of the listed “Adolphshöhe” forum ensemble, which was built in the second half of the 19th century. Before the museum moved in, the school building, which was built between 1875 and 1876, housed the community library. The association for local research Wallerfangen e. V. looks after the historical museum. He organizes lectures, inspections and excursions on regional historical topics.

Another special feature is the depiction of azurite mining (copper ore) in Wallerfangen, where Wallerfanger blue has been mined since Roman times at the latest . The Emilianus tunnel with its unique occupation script is one of the most important evidence of Roman mining north of the Alps.

As an important addition to the topic of the Celtic era , the museum had reproductions of the golden ring jewelry from the grave of a Wallerfang Celtic princess from around 500 BC in 2017 . Manufacture. The grave goods came to light in 1854 during excavation work in what is now Papenschen Park in Wallerfangen. They were donated by Eugen Boch in 1869 to the "Verein von Alterthumsfreunden" in Bonn and from there to the Provincial Museum , which was founded in 1874, later the Rheinisches Landesmuseum , now the LVR LandesMuseum Bonn. A Berlin company made contact-free impressions of the originals with a stripe light scan and produced the replicas using 3D printing . In addition, the surface structure of the jewelery was recorded with a large number of high-resolution digital images. On the basis of this database, the surface structure was applied to the plastic blanks , coated with gold leaf and patinated .

In 2018, the Department of Prehistory and Protohistory was supplemented by replicas of the Late Bronze Age Wallerfanger Eichenborn depot find, the originals of which are kept in the French national museum , the Musée d'Archéologie nationale in Saint-Germain-en-Laye . The find, consisting of more than 60 bronze objects of the Hallstatt-B2 / 3 level ( late Urnfield period) , also contains a rare instrument, a sounding sheet known as a Tintinnabulum . The only usable reproduction of such a mysterious instrument has been one of the museum's attractions since March 2019.

The museum is open on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. or by appointment.

Ceramic flea market

Wallerfangen, ceramic flea market of the historical association on Adolphshöhe

Since 1989 there has been a ceramic flea market on the square in front of the museum at the museum on Adolphshöhe (in front of the “Altes Rathaus” elementary school) on the first Sunday in July every year.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Eisenbarth: Verein für Heimatforschung Wallerfangen eV. Accessed on February 3, 2017 .
  2. ^ Saarland biographies: Theodor Liebertz. 2012, archived from the original on February 7, 2017 ; accessed on February 7, 2017 .
  3. ^ Adler, Beatrix .: Wallerfanger earthenware: history and products of the Villeroy Vaudrevange manufactory (1791-1836) and the earthenware factory Villeroy & Boch Wallerfangen (1836-1931) . Verlag "Die Mitte", 1995, ISBN 3-921236-72-X ( worldcat.org [accessed on May 12, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Markus Battard: Wallerfangen-A journey through time in pictures . 2nd Edition. Dillingen / Saar 2012, p. 108-109 .
  5. ↑ Echt, Rudolf .: The grave decorations of the Celtic princess von Wallerfangen from the pond into the treasury; Booklet accompanying the exhibition from April 27 to July 8, 2001 in the Wallerfangen Local History Museum . Verein für Heimatforschung, 2001 ( worldcat.org [accessed May 12, 2019]).
  6. ↑ http://www.trigonart.com/
  7. ↑ Joshua Schwinn: The Princess has her jewelry back, Saarbrücker Zeitung, Dillinger regional section, C1 Friday, October 13, 2017.
  8. ↑ Stefan Michelbacher, ... on a hill between two swamps - The Tintinnabulum from Eichenborn in Wallerfangen ..., 2018

Coordinates: 49 ° 19 ′ 37 ″  N , 6 ° 43 ′ 10.5 ″  E