Hohenzollerisches Landesmuseum
The Hohenzollerisches Landesmuseum is a culture, art and regional history museum based in Hechingen in the Zollernalb district in Baden-Württemberg , Germany . It documents the history and art history of the county of Hohenzollern , the principalities of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and the Prussian province of Hohenzollern .
History of the collection
The rich holdings of the museum go back to the Hohenzollern State Collection, which has been built up since 1896, and the activities of the honorary Princely Hohenzollern State Curator Wilhelm Friedrich Laur . In the course of his work he managed to save numerous valuable, but endangered art treasures from churches . In addition to Laur, it was the Princely Hohenzoller archivist Karl Theodor Zingeler who discovered numerous prehistoric finds, mainly during the construction of the Hohenzoller regional railway .
The rich holdings of this collection were exhibited at Hohenzollern Castle from 1920 and steadily expanded over the years. With the dissolution of the Hohenzollern state municipal association in 1972, the collection came into the possession of the city of Hechingen and was exhibited in its current location in the Old Castle in Hechingen in 1974 . After the general renovation of the building, the completely redesigned permanent exhibition was opened on March 11, 2005.
The stocks
The collection includes exhibits from the Paleolithic to the present day. The well-known, extraordinarily rich Bronze Age double grave from around 1000 BC is located. BC, which was discovered in Gammertingen in 1927 , in the exhibition . The ecclesiastical art is by numerous statues and paintings represented. The so-called Laizer Apostle (around 1330) or the famous Stations of the Cross by the sculptor Joachim Taubenschmidt (end of the 16th century) should be mentioned here. There are also everyday objects such as portraits of the Counts of Hohenzollern as well as furniture and crockery. The “Hohenzollern Wedding” from 1598, one of the most glamorous social events of the Renaissance in southwest Germany , is presented in audio-visual form .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 21 ′ 12.5 " N , 8 ° 57 ′ 51.1" E