Meyenburg art house

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Kunsthaus Meyenburg in Nordhausen

The Kunsthaus Meyenburg is a museum and exhibition center in the northern Thuringian district town of Nordhausen . It emerged from the former "Meyenburg Museum" in the north of Germany, which was extensively restored in 2002 and converted into an art house. Today it shows regularly changing exhibitions of regionally and nationally known artists in the rooms furnished with historical furniture from the 14th to 19th centuries, serves as the seat of the Ilsetraut-Glock-Grabe-Foundation and is home to the municipal art collection.

history

On the initiative of the citizens of Nordhausen, the Municipal Museum of Antiquities was opened in Nordhausen in September 1876. This museum was initially located in a room in the vestibule of the “Höhere Töchterschule”, where it quickly suffered from a lack of space. In 1878 the museum moved to the premises of the newly inaugurated elementary school on the corner of Taschenberg and Morgenröte, where it was reopened in May 1879. Other locations were the municipal elementary school in Predigerstrasse (1892–1906) and the Töpfertorschule on what was then Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz (1907–1934), where the “New Museum” opened in Villa Becker in 1927 and initially became the “Old Museum” " has been.

The Villa Becker is an Art Nouveau villa built in 1907/08 on Osterstrasse (today Alexander-Puschkin-Strasse) , which shines with its architecture and is surrounded by a beautiful park. A tower, from which one has a fascinating view over the city and the surrounding area up to the Kyffhäuser, representative gables and a terrace on the garden side give the building a special charm. The villa was acquired by the city in October 1926 and set up as a municipal museum for period furniture on the occasion of the 1000th anniversary of Nordhausen in May 1927 .

In 1934 the “Old Museum” moved from Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz to a villa on the enclosure, in the “Lindenhof”, where it was also known as a local museum until 1938. During the opening ceremony of the Lindenhof Museum, the “New Museum” was officially renamed the “Meyenburg Museum” after the reformer and former mayor of Nordhausen, Michael Meyenburg .

Due to high maintenance costs, both museums were merged in 1938. The holdings of the Lindenhof Museum were transferred to the villa of the “Meyenburg Museum” and the style room collection there was dissolved. The “Spätbiedermeierzimmer” went to the theater fund, the “Early Baroque room” to the NSDAP district leadership and the “Gründerzeitzimmer” to the town hall of the city .

The museum building was badly damaged during the devastating air raids on Nordhausen in April 1945. After the city was occupied by American troops, Nordhausen was given up for looting for a week. During these looting, the collections of the municipal museum were severely decimated. At the same time as several exhibits, the associated inventory lists were lost, which suggests that knowledgeable locals were the perpetrators. Large parts of the Nordhausen coin collection, especially city coins from the 16th and 17th centuries, were also lost. Likewise, the historic chain of office of the mayor of Nordhausen , which the city of Nordhausen bought back from the USA in 2014 and which is now exhibited in the Flohburg Museum.

After painstaking detailed work to bring the museum's remaining collections back together, and after the museum was gradually opened partially, for example for visits by school groups, the “Meyenburg Museum” was reopened in May 1950.

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Claudia Ehser, Rainer Hellberg: Festschrift - 125 Years Museum Nordhausen. Nordhausen 2001
  • Manfred Schröter: The destruction of Nordhausen and the end of the war in the Grafschaft Hohenstein district in 1945. Nordhausen 1988

Web links

Commons : Kunsthaus Meyenburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City of Nordhausen: From September 12th: Long-lost mayor's office chain is shown in the “Flohburg” museum , accessed on February 17, 2016

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 32.8 "  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 57.3"  E