LVR open-air museum Kommern

LVR open-air museum Kommern
Rheinisches Landesmuseum für Volkskunde

House from Rhinschenschmidthausen, Bergisches Land
Data
place	Kommern
Art	Folklore Museum
opening	July 20, 1961
management	Josef Mangold
Website	official website
ISIL	DE-MUS-092717

Partial view of the Freilichtmuseum Kommern, aerial photo (2015)

Post mill from game

Beehive from Birkenbeul

The LVR open-air museum Kommern and Rheinisches Landesmuseum für Volkskunde in Kommern / Eifel , sponsored by the Rhineland Regional Council (LVR), is one of the largest open-air museums in Europe with over 100  hectares with around 75 historical buildings from the Prussian Rhine province .

history

The plans for an open-air museum in the Rhineland go back to the 1950s. Around 30 cities and communities between Aachen, Cologne and the Ruhr area applied for the location, including Duisburg, Krefeld, Rheydt and the then independent Kommern (now part of Mechernich ). The election of Kommern on March 28, 1958 in a runoff election against Krefeld is said to have gone back to the then local council of Kommern, Norbert Leduc . The museum opened on July 20, 1961. Adelhart Zippelius was in charge from the beginning until 1981 , then Dieter Pesch until 2007 and Josef Mangold since then.

museum

Around 75 buildings such as farms , windmills , workshops, a tithe barn , community buildings such as school and bakery, dance hall and chapel were combined into four building groups depending on their origin from the area of ​​the former Prussian Rhine province or the territories formerly located in this area. Fields, cottage gardens and orchards complete the whole. The objects come primarily from the Westerwald / Middle Rhine region , from Eifel / Voreifel , from the Lower Rhine and from the Bergisches Land and represent life from the 15th century onwards . Another building group, “Marktplatz Rheinland”, is under construction, which is the rural - Small-town life in the Rhineland, which is supposed to show living and working from the 1950s to the recent past. So far, among other things, a restaurant with the time average 1974 as well as a Quelle prefabricated house (built in 1965), two Nissen huts and a refugee home (container facility) from the 1990s have been rebuilt. The LVR open-air museum in Kommern is thus also developing into a museum of contemporary everyday cultural history in the 20th century.

In addition, as the "Rheinisches Landesmuseum für Volkskunde", the museum shows permanent and changing exhibitions.

The LVR open-air museum in Kommern offers an annual program with around 70 special events: The major events are the "Annual Market Anno dazumal", which takes place annually during the Easter holidays, and the "Zeitblende", which takes place in August and has a varied program, with a look back at what happened 50 years earlier in the Rhineland and around the world was going on, "After the Harvest" on the 3rd or 4th weekend in September and the "Advent for all the senses" on the first Advent weekend.

One focus of the museum is the program of living history. Under the motto “Played History”, the actors encounter visitors in the first person as historically verifiable personalities or “everyday people” from a certain time and social situation and “pull” the museum guests into the past. The Kommern Museum actors switch to the third person to explain to the museum guests the social and economic-historical context in which their role is embedded.

Permanent exhibitions

"WirRheinländer"

This exhibition shows the history of the Rhineland and the life of the Rhinelander from the French occupation in 1794 to the time of the beginning economic miracle after 1950 in a permanent exhibition. The visitors walk through a history lane in an exhibition hall with more than 50 replicas of buildings from the Rhineland, in which scenarios of the Rhenish history are presented.

In addition, the LVR open-air museum in Kommern shows several changing exhibitions every year.

literature

• LVR open-air museum Kommern. Rheinisches Landesmuseum für Volkskunde. Museum guide, edited by Michael H. Faber (= guides and writings of the LVR-Freilichtmuseum Kommern - Rheinisches Landesmuseum für Volkskunde No. 62). Cologne 2009. ISBN 978-3-00-025698-1

Pictures from Kommern

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  Kitchen of the house from Kessenich from 1616

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  Cap windmill from Cantrup

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  Look inside the mill

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  Forge from Bornich

See also

• List of European open air museums
• Johann Nepomuk Hubert von Schwerz

Web links

Commons : Rheinisches Freilichtmuseum Kommern  - Collection of pictures

• Open-air museum Kommern
• Exhibition: We Rhinelander
• Exhibition: Brave New World - Rhinelander Conquer America

Individual evidence

Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 40.9 ″  N , 6 ° 37 ′ 46.7 ″  E