Hall-Franconian Museum
The Hällisch-Fränkisches Museum (HFM) is an art and cultural history museum in the city center of Schwäbisch Hall . It presents the history, art and culture of the former imperial city Hall and its surroundings on over 3000 m² of exhibition space. The director of the museum is Armin Panter, who has a doctorate in art history.
History of the museum
The museum with its collection goes back to the middle of the 19th century. In 1847 the historical association for Württembergisch Franconia was founded. The collection began to be built up in 1851. The association's headquarters in Künzelsau were initially housed in the Künzelsau Castle, where the inventory was initially presented.
The collections have been in Schwäbisch Hall since 1872. The municipality left the so-called Powder Tower to the historical association for museum use, which lasted from 1873 to 1908. After moving again in 1908, the exhibits were on display in the historic Gräterhaus until 1934 , when they found their place in the Staufer residential tower Keckenburg in 1936 . The city supports the facility , which was still known as the Keckenburg Museum at the time , which is why the museum has now been able to occupy other buildings and develop.
History of museum architecture
The Hällisch-Fränkisches Museum is housed in seven buildings that were built between the 13th and 19th centuries. The building ensemble is located in the southern district of Schwäbisch Hall, spared from the fire in 1728, with its narrow streets around the Keckenhof .
Keckenburg
The central building of the complex is the Keckenburg , which is also the oldest building. The tower-like stone house was built around 1240; the half-timbered tower was added in 1508. Spatial alterations took place around 1280, which can be traced back to the interior supports on the ground floor and first floor. At the latest when the Keck family, after whom the building was named, moved in, it served as a defensive residential tower. The Kecken owned the stone house from the 14th to the 16th century. Paintings on the woodwork inside the house indicate a color version from around 1600. At the time of the baroque period it was rebuilt again, the structural character of the building changed through the break-in of large windows. Around 1740 the owners modernized their house and set up a frescoed and stuccoed music hall on the third floor.
More buildings
The residential building to the north of the tower dates from the second half of the 18th century. The subsequent building - formerly the municipal rectorate - was built in 1397. South of the Keckenturm there is a house that, as evidenced by the base of the wall, dates from the time the Keckenturm was built. The current entrance uses a former coach house that was given its current form around 1830. The second main building is the former town mill. It connects to the entrance area in the south and stands outside the former, partly still existing city wall. This late medieval mill has undergone many structural interventions and changes over the centuries, so that its original condition can hardly be determined.
The renovation work to create a museum complex from the various buildings was headed by an architectural office. The architect Werner Schuch deliberately chose modern materials such as concrete, steel and glass in order to distinguish the old and the new.
collection
The Hällisch-Fränkisches Museum covers the history of the entire Franconian-Württemberg region. The statutes of the sponsoring association provide it with a wide range of collections so that it meets the requirements of a cultural and historical museum. The collection contains prehistoric, Roman and Alemannic-Franconian artefacts, objects from medieval times to the present day. The presentation is chronological and leads from the early history of the earth to the history and art of the 20th century.
In the older part of the Keckenburg building, the history of the town of Hall, medieval piety, baroque life and life in the country are presented on several floors. A small section is devoted to the small baroque sculptor Leonhard Kern (1588–1662), who died in Schwäbisch Hall. The built-in pedal crane in the basement of the Keckenturm is worth mentioning . On his pedal bike, visitors can see how massive stone blocks were pulled up on medieval construction sites.
The exhibition in the former city mill begins at the end of the imperial city period. The panorama painter Louis Braun (1836–1916), who was born in Hall and can be seen as the “father of the German panorama”, is given plenty of space here. The following floors deal with the history of the 20th century, in particular Jewish life. The synagogue paneling of the former Unterlimpurg synagogue , a work by the synagogue painter Eliezer Sussmann from the 18th century, is also on display in this section .
In addition to the permanent exhibitions, there are three or four special exhibitions in the Hällisch-Fränkisches Museum every year. In addition, the HFM offers regional artists the so-called winter garden in the Stadtmühle, a small room in which they can exhibit their works. In a basement room that has been converted into a meeting room, there are sometimes public lectures.
literature
- Bernhard Decker (Ed.): The sculptures of the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance 1200–1565. Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1994, ISBN 3-7995-3311-7 .
- Albrecht Bedal and others: Hällisch-Fränkisches Museum Schwäbisch Hall. Westermann museum guide . Georg Westermann Verlag, Braunschweig 1990, DNB 900945672 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the history of the museum: Bernhard Decker (ed.): The pictorial works of the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance 1200–1565. Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1994, p. 12f .; Harald Siebenmorgen In: Hällisch-Fränkisches Museum Schwäbisch Hall. Georg-Westermann-Verlag, Braunschweig 1990, pp. 11-14.
- ↑ The Württembergisch Franconia Association has published an annual yearbook since it was founded.
- ↑ on the history of construction see: Albrecht Bedal and others: Hällisch-Fränkisches Museum Schwäbisch Hall. Georg-Westermann-Verlag, Braunschweig 1990, p. 15f.
- ↑ For the individual buildings of the city see: The Schwäbisch Haller houses lexicon. on: schwaebischhall.de
Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 40.6 ″ N , 9 ° 44 ′ 12.3 ″ E