Bitburg-Prüm District Museum
The Bitburg-Prüm District Museum is the local history museum of the Bitburg-Prüm Eifel district in Bitburg . It houses collections on the everyday and cultural history of the Eifel .
history
The museum was opened on August 11, 1929 as the local history museum of the Bitburg district . It was founded by District Administrator Albert Gilles (1895–1989). The collection was initially located in the former electricity office on Mötscher Strasse. From 1938 the old town hall became the new location. There, around three quarters of the stocks were lost in the bombing of Bitburg at the end of the Second World War .
From 1959 to 1996 the management of the museum was in the hands of Josef Hainz. It was first reopened in 1959 in the baroque castle on Kölner Strasse. In 1963 the company moved to the former "Villa Limbourg" in Denkmalstrasse. In 1998 the district museum was set up in the historic building of the former "Higher Agricultural School" in Bitburg, a building from the years 1880 to 1882 according to plans by the royal master builder Krone and the district master builder Peter Josef Julius Wolff (1824–1911). With a renewed concept, the museum has since presented itself there as a local museum.
exhibition
In 20 rooms and with an exhibition area of around 1,000 square meters, the museum shows evidence of the history of the Eifel. It provides insights into the worlds of life and work over the past three centuries. There is also an archaeological collection. The permanent exhibition shows in particular:
- Overview of regional history from Roman times to the 20th century
- Rural home decor of the 18th and 19th centuries
- Historical photographs from the Eifel
- Life and work of the sculptor, painter and graphic artist Mathieu Molitor (1873–1929)
- Evidence of the iron industry since the Middle Ages
- Agriculture and craft
- Archaeological finds from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages
Collection focus on photography
With the exhibition series “Everyday Life and Idyll - Pictures of Life in the Country”, the District Museum placed a focus on photography for the first time. The series began with the special exhibition “Forgotten Land - Rediscovered Eifel Photos by Joseph Jeiter (1898-1968)” in 2000. The largest part of the collection is the photographic estate of the farmer Albert Theisen from Meckel , consisting of 794 glass plates, his camera and the completely preserved darkroom including equipment, which can be viewed in the permanent exhibition. Around 250 other positions consist of individual photos, some in original frames, photo albums, glass negatives and series of photos by contemporary photographers: Martin Rosswog Rural interiors , created around 2005, as well as by Markus Bullik custom figures of the village society , created in the late 1990s.
Library
The museum has a reference library on regional history. There you can also see:
- A collection of the Bitburger Zeitung (first published under the title Eifeler Bauernfreund ) from 1848 to 1942.
- The estate of the Wißmannsdorf pastor and local researcher Antonius Cordie (1872–1946), with essays and notes on the history of the Eifel and individual places.
- The estate of the Bitburg architect Heinrich Hildebrand (1855–1925), who planned and built railway lines in China and the German colony of Tsingtau there over 100 years ago .
Special exhibitions
Since it was refurbished in 1998, the district museum has regularly offered special exhibitions that repeatedly open up new topics from the history of the region:
- 200 years of Bitburg district - Prüm district - Bitburg-Prüm Eifel district , October 2, 2016 to January 15, 2017
- Presence, work and integration of Germans in Luxembourg from the Congress of Vienna to the First World War (1815-1914) , September 19 to November 14, 2013
- “Now we only know how beautiful our homeland was” - the struggle for survival of Jewish deportees from Luxembourg and the Trier region in the Litzmannstadt ghetto. Letters - Photos - Documents 1941-1944 , November 8, 2012 to March 17, 2013
- Mathieu Molitor (1873-1929): sculptor - painter - graphic artist , April 29 to August 16, 2009
- The Bitburg Synagogue - Views of Jewish life between the Meuse, Moselle and Rhine in the mirror of old postcards , November 4, 2008 to February 15, 2009
- Dockendorf Castle , February 18 to July 6, 2008
- Migration (as part of the Capital of Culture year Luxembourg and the Greater Region), March 16 to June 3, 2007
- Markus Bullik: Customs of Village Society - Relics of Rural Customs in Germany (Photography), September 5, 2005 to May 31, 2006
- Time of rubble - Bitburg 1945 and Bertolt Brecht , December 20, 2004 to May 31, 2005
- Good ideas in bad times - improvisations then and now , April 8th to June 30th, 2004
- Meal times - Eifel table scenes from 100 years , March 11th to June 29th, 2003
- The village photographer - pictures of life in the Eifel by Albert Theisen (1886-1967) (photography), June 3 to October 27, 2002
- Milk - more than a drink , September 2 to November 1, 2001
- The monument to Diana near Bollendorf and the "Picturesque Views" by Johann Anton Ramboux (1790-1866) , May 18 to July 15, 2001
- Martin Rosswog: Rural interiors in Europe (photography), August 30 to October 15, 2000
- Marion Anna Simon: People and Places (painting, sculpture), June 15 to August 13, 2000
- Forgotten Land - rediscovered Eifel photos by Joseph Jeiter (1898-1968) , May 6 to June 4, 2000
- Franziskus Wendels: "Lichtungen" (painting), October 1 to November 7, 1999
- Mathieu Molitor (1873-1929) - homecoming of a stranger , February 26 to April 26, 1999
Selected objects
The "Moos" distillery from Niederweiler , 18th century.
Bronze Age urn from Utscheid .
Wooden chest, early 19th century.
Sculpture of St. Hubertus from Pfalzkyll, 1st half of the 16th century.
Straw bear costume from Mötsch , around 1990.
Devices from the pipe baker Starck from Speicher (Eifel) , 19th century.
Deck oven with neo-Gothic decor, around 1850.
Putten on the vault keystone from the Kobe Tower in Bitburg, 1576th
Rattle to rattle on Good Friday and Holy Saturday
Publications
- Bitburg-Prüm District Museum (ed.): Mathieu Molitor. Sculptor - painter - graphic artist. On the occasion of the exhibition in the Bitburg-Prüm District Museum, April 30 - August 16, 2009. Edited by Birgit Hartung. Leipzig 2009.
- Bitburg-Prüm District Museum (ed.): The village photographer. Pictures of life in the Eifel by Albert Theisen (1886-1967). With contributions by Burkhard Kaufmann and Mario Simmer. Bitburg 2002.
Web links
Coordinates: 49 ° 58 ′ 10.6 ″ N , 6 ° 31 ′ 24 ″ E