Osterburg District Museum
 Osterburg District Museum during the Easter market in 2012 |
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| place | Osterburg |
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Local museum
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| opening | 1935 |
| ISIL | DE-MUS-808611 |
The Osterburg District Museum is a museum in the town of Osterburg in the Altmark in Saxony-Anhalt . It is one of the museums in the Stendal district .
Location and facilities
The museum is located in a listed two-storey half - timbered house at Breite Straße 46 in Osterburg's old town. The former residential and commercial building, stretching over eleven axes , was built in the 18th century (after 1762). Other information suggests that it was built earlier than the city fire of 1761. The room layout of the house has largely been preserved in its original form. Noteworthy is the room on the ground floor, equipped with historical round arches, which is used for temporary exhibitions. With the outbuildings, the museum has exhibition, storage and work areas of around 700 m².
The museum collection contains 25,000 individual items, of which 3,000 represent archaeological finds from the Osterburg area. In addition, there is a public specialist library on regional history with 6,000 volumes. Parts of a palisade wall and the wooden construction of a castle from the 10th century can be seen in the museum courtyard.
history
The museum was founded in 1935 by what was then the district of Osterburg , and thus emerged later than comparable museums in the rest of the Altmark . Before it was founded, museum items from the Osterburg region were brought to the Altmärkisches Museum in Stendal . There was an Altmark Museum Association Stendal-Osterburg.
Initially, the newly formed museum organized shop window exhibitions in the Breiten Straße before it was possible to move into its own exhibition space in the city school on the Großer Markt at the end of the 1930s. Today (as of 2012) the building serves as the city and district library.
In terms of content, the museum dealt with the prehistory and early history as well as the folklore of the area. At the end of the Second World War , the collections were put into storage.
In the early 1950s efforts were made to reopen. In 1953/54 the present house was set up as a museum. Originally, the half-timbered house at Breite Straße 46 served as the headquarters of the Osterburg trading company Carl Christoph Bode .
From 1990 the museum profile was revised and the museum renovated. Particular emphasis is placed on the local connection to the city of Osterburg, to which two permanent exhibitions have been dedicated since 1993, which are housed in seven rooms on the upper floor. An exhibition focuses on the town and district history of castles from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Another deals with the history of Osterburg in the 19th and 20th centuries, with the development of Osterburg as a school town and asparagus town being discussed. The museum also houses the estate of the famous asparagus farmer August Huchel (1889–1963). Further exhibitions are historical handicrafts , agriculture and from flax to linen . There are also many special exhibitions. Every Easter there is an Easter market in and around the museum with regional handicrafts, specialties and music.
literature
- Frank Hoche: The Osterburg District Museum . Publisher: Museums of the district of Stendal, no year
- Mario Titze in Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony-Anhalt I, Magdeburg District , Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 681 f. (listed under the former address Straße des Friedens 21 )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Mario Titze in Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments, Saxony-Anhalt I, Magdeburg District , Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 681
- ^ Homepage of the District Museum Osterburg ( Memento from July 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 52 ° 47 '24.7 " N , 11 ° 45' 9.3" E