Koenraad Bosman Museum
The Koenraad-Bosman-Museum is the museum for art and urban history of the Lower Rhine city of Rees . The two-storey, five-axis building, the former Keim House , was built around 1850. The museum, which opened in 1997, has 418 m² of exhibition space and is named after the Dutch museum sponsor, the engineer and entrepreneur Koenraad Bosman (1918–2000) from Berg en Dal .
City history and art exhibition
In terms of content, the museum has two focal points: art and the history of the city.
City history
- 500 to 1500
Two rooms of the museum are dedicated to the settlement, local and urban history of Rees (5th / 8th to 15th centuries). Here you will find information about the former castle and today's Haus Aspel . Also on display are the town survey document from 1228 (replica) as well as a replica of the document of the privileges of the Rees merchants from the year 1142. A missal from the 13th / 14th century is worth seeing . Century and various Reeser seals (seal stamps) from the late Middle Ages.
- 1500 to 1750
One room contains information about the history of the city of Rees in the 16th and 17th centuries, when the Spaniards and French temporarily besieged and occupied the city, or the Dutch maintained a strong garrison with Brandenburg's consent to secure the great fortress. In the space dominated by the city model, photos are also on display showing the parts of the city fortifications that are still in existence today. There are also engravings that show the earlier fortresses of Rees, the siege of the city by the French or the territory of the former Duchy of Cleves around 1600.
- Since 1750
The exhibits on the recent Reeser history from the second half of the 18th century are housed in another room. Here you will find texts and maps of the former Rees district , to which the city of Rees belonged from 1816 to 1974 politically. Photos and texts provide brief information about the Rhine then and now, about the great Rhine flood of 1926 , the Rhine ferries, the former fishing industry, the former tobacco industry ( Oldenkott and Dobbelmann ) as well as about the Rees in the prewar period, the total destruction of the city in 1945 and the reconstruction after the Second World War. Since 2014, the museum has had a room dedicated to Jewish life in Rees and the former Jewish community of Rees.
- Jewish Traditions Room
Jews have also been living in Rees since the 14th century at the latest. A Jewish community with a synagogue room and school formed in the city in the 18th and 19th centuries. As everywhere in the German Reich, Jews were persecuted, expropriated, deported and murdered by the National Socialists in the city of Rees . Stumbling blocks today testify to the hatred that Jews were shown in Rees. There is currently no Jewish community in Rees.
Since 2014, objects that have been saved from destruction have been shown in the “Jewish Traditions” room; there is also a Torah fragment and some prayer books.
art
The museum's permanent art exhibition includes works by Johannes Hermanus Barend Koekkoek (1840–1912), Piet Leysing (1885–1933), Ernst Isselmann (1885–1916), Heinz Scholten (1894–1964) and Walter Heimig (1880–1955), but also by contemporary Reeser artists such as Astrid Karuna Feuser , Michael Hoffmann, Maria Kühnapfel and Veronica Molenkamp.
Temporary exhibitions (selection)
In the large hall of the extension to the museum building, there are regular temporary exhibitions on an area of around 100 m², including:
- 2019: Ulrike Donié
- 2018: Ae Hee Lee
- 2018: Petra Dreier & Michael Hanousek GfBH
- 2013: Ernst Isselmann
- 2007: Astrid Karuna Feuser Father Heaven - Mother Earth
- 2002: Žarko Radić
Historic fortification
Under the museum building there is an accessible casemate for lighter artillery , built around 1500 .
literature
- City of Rees (ed.): City Museum Koenraad Bosman. Museum of Art and City History. Boss-Verlag, Duisburg 1997.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Koenrad Bosman Museum , rees-erleben.de, accessed December 1, 2016th
- ↑ Traces of Jewish Faith , Niederrhein-museen.de, accessed on December 1, 2016.
- ↑ See the article Jewish Community in Rees
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 34 " N , 6 ° 23 ′ 57.4" E