Sinsteden cultural center
The Sinsteden cultural center is a museum in the Sinsteden district of the Rommerskirchen municipality in the Rhine district of Neuss in North Rhine-Westphalia .
history
Two contrasting collections form the Sinsteden cultural center in the Rhine district of Neuss. It is the Ulrich Rückriem sculpture halls and the Agriculture Museum.
The Rhine district of Neuss, which lies between the cities of Cologne , Düsseldorf and Mönchengladbach , has always been strongly characterized by agriculture. In order to maintain this tradition, a decision in principle was made in 1989 to found an agricultural museum . In Sinsteden a hitherto agricultural and rather dilapidated was courtyard . The square courtyard, built according to Franconian models, and the associated four-hectare outdoor area were purchased and gradually restored in the years to come. The first agricultural implements soon came to the museum, and although they were in need of restoration, they were wonderful witnesses to the mechanization of agriculture. When the exhibition space in the courtyard became too small for the large devices, the Rhein-Kreis Neuss leased a 3,000 m warehouse in 1993, which was in the immediate vicinity. In 2006 this hall was finally purchased and renovated for the Agriculture Museum. The company CASE IH , which operated a large factory in Neusser Hafen until 1997, provided a large number of old agricultural equipment and tractors and handed them over to the Sinsteden cultural center together with the last tractor that left the production line. With this collection, the Agricultural Museum gained supraregional importance, as the mechanization of agriculture over a longer period of time can now be clearly illustrated on well-preserved and restored devices. On the grounds of the Agricultural Museum and behind the Vierkanthof, the Rhein-Kreis Neuss, the foundation for the maintenance and promotion of culture of the Sparkasse Neuss and Ulrich Rückriem built two more simple halls in 1993, in which the sculpture collection of the sculptor Ulrich Rückriem has a permanent new home found. The green space, which connects the two facilities and was redesigned jointly by Ulrich Rückriem and the Rhein-Kreis Neuss , shows various aspects of the landscape and landscaping that refer to art as well as to the agricultural museum. This shows the connection between the two institutions.
Ulrich Rückriem's sculpture halls
On the arable land behind the Agriculture Museum, Ulrich Rückriem planned two simple, white halls that look like functional agricultural buildings from the outside. They fit into the existing structure of the agricultural landscape and were opened in 1994. The architecture is functional and sober, a steel structure supports the hall roof. The walls made of sand-lime brick are set against the steel pillars from the inside, so that a continuous surface results. As well as the external appearance, Rückriem determined the division of the interior. Non-load-bearing walls that were bricked according to the outer walls were drawn in and form different room sizes with a rectangular or square floor plan. Above the outer wall and below the roof there is a ribbon of windows that creates natural lighting for the sculptures from above. For Rückriem it is the ideal way of lighting that consequently dispenses with artificial lighting. The neutral backdrop and the consistent renunciation of didactic boards or a given tour offer the viewer no possibility of distraction. He moves between the sculptures, sometimes within an installation, and is asked to deal with the material, the processing of the stone and the structure. In the outdoor area, too, Ulrich Rückriem , influenced by historical parks and gardens, now creates sculptures that are connected to the installation site. Since the green area in Sinsteden was redesigned, Ulrich Rückriem was able to suggest various design elements of the landscape architecture and define different criteria for the type of installation. Sometimes it is rooms designed with the help of hedges that border his sculptures, sometimes he places trees on an open area according to a certain grid.
Agricultural Museum
In the Agriculture Museum, products that were grown in this region are included in the concept. The devices on display show how the soil was tilled, how the seeds were sown and harvested 150, 100 and 50 years ago . The example of these devices shows the development of arable farming and the associated enormous changes for agriculture, which have influenced the village community and ultimately the population.
In the exhibition rooms of the court next to temporary exhibitions some basics of agriculture show how the different types of soil on the example of two profiles of Parabraunerde and sandy soil and the principles of crop rotation , the time sequential cultivation of different crops on an area. The cultivation of sugar beet and grain is explained and the different types of grain are shown. In another room, the history and the varied use of the Rhenish draft horses is presented, harnesses show the forms of tension and old, handwritten stud books provide information about the success of this horse breeding. The exhibition hall of the Agricultural Museum shows eight thematic focal points: in addition to tillage and sowing and fertilization, they are the production of grain and root crops . The production of roughage for the animals is treated with the grassland management . The Hofwirtschaft introduces the processing of the grain and equipment that was used on the farm, such as conveyor belts, manure grabs, mills and crushers. But also the different types of drive from horse-powered göpel to drive motor are shown. With the draft animals and the various carriages, an area of the archive of the Rhenish draft horses is presented. The tractors from CASE IH in the middle of the hall form a technical axis that documents the development since the 1940s.
Collections and Institutes
Archaeological collection
The archaeological collection of the municipality of Rommerskirchen was loaned to the Agricultural Museum in 1997 and shows finds from a farm from Roman times. In 1987, the foundations of a building, the 'villa rustica' , were excavated on the southwestern edge of the district of Nettesheim-Butzheim . The farm was built around AD 100 and existed for about 175 years. There were different construction phases. Further archaeological finds from the Rhine district of Neuss are in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn of the Rhineland Regional Council. For a longer period of time, the Agricultural Museum has the opportunity to expand the collection of the Rommerskirchen community with treasures from the State Museum from different epochs , such as the Bronze, Roman and Franconian times.
Rhenish cold blood archive
In 1997 the Agricultural Museum received the draft archive of the Rhenish horse from the district breeder's headquarters, which contains old photographs, stud books and the documentation of the Rhenish horse studbook from the first volume from 1895 to the 48th volume from 1949.
The use of horses as draft animals in agriculture began in the early Middle Ages, when the improved strain with collar or Sielengeschirren effective use of the plow made possible. These horses were relatively small as they were mainly used as riding horses or harnessed to the wagon. Oxen continued to be the most important draft animals and were only replaced with the breeding of heavy field horses. In the Rhineland, these horses were bred when the Rhenish Horse Studbook was founded in 1892. It should be "a strong, well-built, deep horse of cold blood, with strong bones and free movements." The Rhenish draft horses , which emerged from the Belgians, were very popular and were sent to world exhibitions in Paris in 1900 and Madrid in 1926. Numerous auctions were carried out via the Rheinische Pferdezentrale, the largest turnover was in 1941 with 4,635 horses. The replacement of draft animals and, above all, draft horses by tractors took less than 30 years in the industrialized countries; it began in Germany before the Second World War and was completed in 1960. In 1954 the last Rhenish draft horses were brought to the state stud in Warendorf , as the closure of the state stud Wickrath marked the temporary end of the Rhenish draft horse breeding.
Scientific poultry farm - The "Bruno Dürigen Institute"
The Scientific Poultry Farm (WGH) was founded in direct association with the Sinsteden cultural center and opened in 2004 on the initiative of the Federation of German Racial Poultry Breeders eV (BDRG) and in cooperation with Rehkämper from Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf . The aim of the scientific poultry farm is to develop knowledge of the biology of pedigree poultry , which serves both basic biological research and scientifically based animal welfare . The focus is on three main topics: scientific research , public relations and the preservation of genetic diversity.
Institute for Applied Hippology
In 2003 the Institute for Applied Hippology was founded by Volker Raulf and Cornelia Dreyer - Rendelsmann, based in Sinsteden. It is about agriculture with breeding, keeping and feeding, about sport with all disciplines from training physiology to education, about medicine from colic surgery to behavioral research, ethics and art.
Temporary exhibitions and events
In the area of tension between art and agriculture with the permanent exhibitions, which are spread over three halls across the site, additional temporary exhibitions and events are offered on the courtyard. There are topics related to contemporary art, such as exhibitions with Anne Behrens , Herbert Böttger , Abraham David Christian , Danica Dakic , Elliott Erwitt , Horst Hahn, Magdalena Jetelova , Jürgen Klauke , Edward Koinberg , Maria Lehnen , Klaus Mettig , Petra Ottkowski , Otto Pankok , Sandra del Pilar , Michael Snoek , Ulrich Rückriem or Horst Wackerbarth .
In parallel to art exhibitions, topics related to agriculture are shown, such as the cultivation of grain and sugar beet in the Rhineland, the history of cotton, the history of champagne, salt - production and trade in the Ténéré, land and agriculture in Ethiopia and Yemen, all about water, cold-blooded horses in agriculture, mules, animal health in the mirror of history, had horse worlds, pigs or topics on the history of 'new' plants or medicinal plants. In terms of cultural history, themes related to blues music or the seven deadly sins are shown.
Blues Festival
Once a year the historic courtyard is transformed into a festival meeting place for fans of blues and rock music . Due to the positive response and in order to shorten the waiting time between the festivals a little, the cultural center offers additional musical highlights with nationally and internationally known artists 3 times a year with the concert series “Powerblues live”.
Sinstedener Classic
The Sinstedener Klassik was launched in 2018 by the Robert-Schumann-Hochschule Düsseldorf, the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss and the Sinsteden cultural center of the Rhein-Kreis Neuss in order to support young and talented musicians during their studies. The musicians should be up to 30 years old and have already successfully participated in competitions. Four concerts are offered, spread over the year. Two concerts of the Sinstedener Klassik are reserved for the winners of the Sieghardt Rometsch Competition. This competition consists of a competition for solo instruments and solo singing in the summer semester and a competition for chamber music in the winter semester at the Robert Schumann University. A third concert of the Sinstedener Klassik will present the scholarship holders of the Neuss Chamber Academy, who have also qualified through special achievements. The fourth concert is organized by the music school of the Rhein-Kreis Neuss, here the winners of the ' Jugend musiziert ' competition are presented. Classical music is made tangible to a wide audience through an informal atmosphere at an unusual concert venue, the Sinsteden cultural center. It forms a backdrop for performances that are otherwise reserved for visitors to concert halls and opera houses.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 13.4 " N , 6 ° 51 ′ 4.1" E