Melanchthon House (Bretten)
The Melanchthon House in Bretten is a museum on the history of the Reformation and a research facility on Philipp Melanchthon . In addition to an exhibition on Melanchthon's life, the building also houses a research center, a special library and a documentation center for international Melanchthon research.
history
The building was erected from 1897 on the site of the birthplace of Philipp Melanchthon, which was destroyed in 1689. The suggestion for the building came from the church historian Nikolaus Müller . The building was designed by Johannes Vollmer , the construction work was supervised by Hermann Billing and Wilhelm Jung. Bretten craftsmen Ludwig Christof Meffle and Johann Schick carried out the facade decoration. The house was inaugurated on June 25, 1903.
The exterior shape and the furnishings of the neo-late Gothic house have largely been preserved. On the front side to the market place of Bretten there is a balcony decorated with coats of arms above two late Gothic portals, above a mighty gable framed by pinnacles , which bears the inscription "To honor God - Melanchthon in memory - Erected by Evangelical Christianity". A gable picture shows Christ as ruler of the world .
Inside there is a frescoed memorial hall with statues of Melanchthon and his companions on the ground floor . The apse of the hall houses an altar so that the room can also be used for church services . The four rooms on the first floor are thematically oriented: the “Prince's Room” represents the political framework of the Reformation, the “Humanist's Room” presents important contemporaries of Melanchthon, the “Theologian's Room” is modeled on Melanchthon's study room in Wittenberg and the “City Room ” is with the The coats of arms of the 121 cities with which Melanchthon was connected. The glass painters Rudolf and Otto Linnemann from Frankfurt created glass windows for the house .
Library
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| founding | 1903 |
| Duration | approx. 11,000 |
| Library type | Special library |
| place | Boards |
| ISIL | DE-Bret1 |
| Website | melanchthon.com |
The library today comprises around 11,000 volumes on the history of the Reformation, 4277 of which are from the old holdings prior to 1900, including an incunabulum . The library was based on donations and the estate of Nikolaus Müller, a total of around 1,600 volumes. Through his brokerage, 400 volumes from the estate of Wilhelm Ludwig Krafft were acquired, as well as duplicates from the Wittenberg Luther Hall. Through further donations, the inventory grew to 5,140 titles by 1960 and to around 11,000 titles today, including 1,300 volumes from the estate of the Melanchthon bibliographer Wilhelm Hammer .
The library is professionally looked after by the Baden State Library .
See also
literature
- Peter Michael Ehrle: The library of the Melanchthon House in Bretten and the Badische Landesbibliothek . - In: Books, People and Cultures. Festschrift for Hans-Peter Geh on his 65th birthday, ed. by Birgit Schneider, Munich: Saur 1999, pp. 136–143.
- Karl Renz: Guide through the Melanchthon Memorial House in Bretten. 5th edition, published by the Melanchthon Association Bretten. Bretten 2000, ISBN 3-921780-15-2 .
- Stefan Rhein, Peter Bahn (Ed.), Gerhard Schwinge (Red.): The Melanchthon House Bretten. An example of the Reformation commemoration at the turn of the century. Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 1997, ISBN 3-929366-63-0 .
- Stefan Rhein: Library of the Melanchthon House. In: sub.uni-goettingen.de, Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, accessed on August 25, 2016 (Source: Handbook of Historical Book Holdings in Germany . Volume 7. Baden-Württemberg and Saarland. A – H. Ed. By Wolfgang Kehr Edited by Wilfried Sühl-Strohmenger, with the collaboration of Isolde Tröndle-Weintritt and Heinz Holeczek, Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 1994, ISBN 3-487-09581-5 , pp. 70–73; digitized by Günter Kükenshöner, edited by Bernhard Fabian, Olms Neue Medien, Hildesheim 2003; as of September 1991; a more recent version see the section on web links).
Web links
- Website of the Melanchthon House
- Graphic collection of the Melanchthon House in museum digital
- The library of the Melanchthon House. In: melanchthon.com (inventory history and description, catalog description, sources and representations on the history of the library, publications on the inventory); Source: Stefan Rhein. In: Handbook of the historical book inventory in Germany. Vol. 7. Hildesheim u. a. 1994, pp. 70-73; - “For the present online version, the inventory and catalog information has been completely revised and supplemented by the librarian (January 2001). Last update: January 2014 "
Individual evidence
- ^ Herbert Lohrer: Ludwig Christof Meffle, stone and sculptor in Bretten. In: Kraichgau. 17, 2002, pp. 191-196.
Coordinates: 49 ° 2 ′ 12.5 " N , 8 ° 42 ′ 24.8" E