Hus-Museum Konstanz

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The Hus Museum Konstanz is a museum in the city where Jan Hus died . It is located in the old town of Konstanz on Hussenstrasse at the Schnetztor. The life and work of Hus are presented.

Hus: arrival and arrest

Hus Museum at Schnetztor (building on the right with half-timbered dormer window)
Notice at the Hus-Museum Konstanz
Information board at the Hus Museum in Konstanz

Jan Hus was free in Constance from his arrival on November 3, 1414 until his arrest on November 28, 1414. During this time he lived with his companions with the widow Pfister in Paulsgasse. In the Richental Chronicle this was formulated as follows: “in the Pfistrinen hus an sant Paulsgassen”. Paulsgasse was renamed Hussenstrasse in 1873 and was renamed that way again after 1945.

Hus house

The house at Hussenstraße 64 is a half-timbered house from the 15th / 16th centuries. Century. It was acquired by the Czechoslovak state in 1922. In 1923 the Czechoslovak state transferred the house to the Hus Museum Society in Prague, which was founded in 1919. The Hus Memorial / Hus Museum was set up in the house at Hussenstrasse 64. The Hus Museum is one of the municipal museums in Constance.

It could not be proven beyond doubt that Hus lived right here.

exhibition

The exhibition shows the places of activity of Hus as dean, his way to Constance and the course of the process. The exhibits include facsimiles , photos and a multimedia test ("heretic test") for the visitors. The exhibition was reorganized by the Hussite Museum Tábor and the Hus Museum Society Prague in 2014 and is maintained by the Czech Ministry of Culture and the City of Constance. In 2014 the Hus Museum had 17,681 visitors.

Movie

Other Hus museums

  • Hussite Museum Tábor , (in Czech: Husitské muzeum v Táboře).
  • Hus Museum Society Prague , (in Czech: Společnost Husova muzea v Praze).

literature

  • Daniela Leykam: The Hus Museum in Konstanz. Between a historical museum and a place of remembrance , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 133rd year 2015, pp. 203-234

Web links

Commons : Hus-Museum Konstanz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Lünstroth: Memory of a brave man. In: Südkurier of July 7, 2014.
  2. ^ Richard Friedenthal: Jan Hus. R. Piper GmbH & Co KG, Munich 1984, pp. 220-223.
  3. ↑ The wrong Hus house. In: Ulrich Büttner and Egon Schwär: Konstanz Council History (s), Stadler Verlagsgesellschaft, Konstanz 2014, pp. 191–194.
  4. ↑ The Hussenstrasse. In: Ulrich Büttner and Egon Schwär: Konstanz Council History (s), Stadler Verlagsgesellschaft, Konstanz 2014, pp. 177–179.
  5. ↑ 100 years of the Hus Museum Society in Prague: 1919-2019. In: Konstanz Official Gazette, April 17, 2019.
  6. ↑ https://www.konstanz.de/start/kultur+_+freizeit/museen+_+ausstellungshaeuser.html Museums and exhibition houses in Konstanz
  7. ↑ The old town of Constance - keyword Hus-Haus. In: Constance in focus. Norbert Höpfinger Verlag, Konstanz 2013, p. 15.
  8. ↑ New exhibition pays tribute to the reformer Jan Hus (source epd)
  9. ↑ Michael Lünstroth: Memory of a brave man. In: Südkurier of July 7, 2014.
  10. ↑ Museums. In: City of Konstanz, Main Office - Statistics and Control Support (Ed.): Konstanz in Numbers 2015 , p. 18.
  11. ↑ (cs) Hussite Museum Tábor

Coordinates: 47 ° 39 ′ 32.1 ″  N , 9 ° 10 ′ 15.1 ″  E