Bad Liebenwerda District Museum

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Bad Liebenwerda District Museum

The Bad Liebenwerda District Museum houses the local history of the spa town of the same name Bad Liebenwerda in the Elbe-Elster district in the state of Brandenburg . It is a member of the Museum Association of the State of Brandenburg e. V.

Location and architecture

The museum is located at Burgplatz 2 in the immediate vicinity of the Lubwart Tower . The two-storey building has a simple, white plaster and is a listed building . On the left side of the building there are two small, square lattice windows on each floor that let light into the hallway. Access is via an arched door through which two larger, rectangular windows have been installed. This form is recorded in two further windows to the right of the entrance. The profiled shape of the windows is emphasized by brown curtains . The gable roof is covered with a red beaver tail . Part of the medieval castle wall made of quarry stone is integrated into the rear of the building. The pointed arch door dates from around 1400.

history

The exact date of construction of the building is not known. It was built in the course of the expansion of Liebenwerda Castle and once served as a residence for the elector's entourage . This building was also destroyed in a castle fire in 1733, but was rebuilt in 1760. In the 19th century it served as a privately used residential building with an attached schnapps distillery . The Landesbank Anhalt-Dessau used the building around 1900 . In 1953 and 1954, the city opened a district museum for the first time; At that time it was still on Dresdner Strasse 15. In 1994 the museum moved to the building at Burgplatz 2. In 1997, Karl Gierhold's puppet theater collection was added. The museum management therefore enlarged the exhibition space and set up a new permanent exhibition entitled From the cobbler to the marionette twine . In 2005 Paul Böckelmann and ERNA redesigned the permanent exhibition.

exhibition

Bad Liebenwerda puppet theater collection

An exhibition on Bad Liebenwerda local history has been on view in the building since spring 1994. It includes the prehistory and early history of the region as well as typical handicrafts and folk art. Another room shows a regional kitchen and a living room from the 1920s. The town and district history is also documented.

Another focus is on the Graun brothers . You were born in neighboring Wahrenbrück and worked as composers in the 18th century . They were among the main representatives of the First Berlin Song School and worked at the court of Friedrich II .

The Elbe-Elster-Land is considered to be the cradle of central German traveling puppet theater . In the Middle Ages, puppeteers moved their carriages from the region to Saxony and the Mark Brandenburg . A special exhibition therefore shows a wide variety of puppets. The museum is making efforts to set up its own shadow theater. An international puppet theater festival takes place once a year.

Regular events

literature

  • Georg Dehio (arr. Gerhard Vinken et al.): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
  • Elbe-Elster district (ed.): Museumsverbund Elbe-Elster district , flyer, no date, p. 12

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Brandenburg Museum Association ( Memento from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 25, 2015.
  2. ↑ Information board : The Museum - History of the House in the anteroom of the museum, inspection in June 2015.
  3. ↑ Culture , website of the Elbe-Elster district, accessed on June 24, 2015.

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 '57.1 "  N , 13 ° 23' 55"  E