Auberlehaus Museum
The Auberlehaus is a historic building in Trossingen that houses a museum with several important exhibits . Since October 2014 the museum has also been one of 26 information points of the UNESCO Geopark Swabian Alb .
history
The farmhouse with the address "Marktplatz 6" is one of the largest and most stately farmhouses in the entire evangelical Baar . In 1718 the house on the market square was built by Johannes Glunz as the “Lamm” inn. Just a few years later, the "lamb" was the scene of the Trossinger Allmand dispute , during which the Trossinger even fought with the Württemberg military . In 1855, the well-to-do farming family Maurer, who had the eponymous nickname Auberle , bought the building. After the death of the last of the bricklayer family, the house was to be burned down in 1968 as part of a fire-fighting drill. The city council decided - with an extremely tight vote - to extensively renovate the building and make it accessible to the public as a local museum. The city owes this above all to the Trossinger Heimatmuseum eV working and support group, which was founded in 1973 and which took care of the museum - in addition to collecting and researching the local history of Trossingen. In 1977, thanks to some patrons, the city of Trossingen and the association, the local history museum was opened. In 1979 the first skeleton of a Trossinger Plateosaurus moved into the old walls - but only as a cast. Until the closure of the museum due to the devastating hail damage on June 28, 2006, an average of around 8,000 visitors visited the museum every year.
renovation
After the hailstorm, the museum was closed until 2009. From September 2009 to October 2010, the voluntary association renovated the house and redesigned the Museum Auberlehaus. The association invested EUR 112,000 in the renovation of the first two floors and performed 5700 hours of work. In addition to a general thorough cleaning, the electrics in particular were renewed and the ground floor redesigned. The previous walls were hung in the former barn area with translucent strips of fabric and backlit. A wall of light appears in front of which the exhibits come into their own. In contrast to this, a completely light-guided exhibition on the subject of palaeontology was installed in the extension of the ground floor: 70 linear meters of black curtains, over 50 tons of gravel, asphalt paths and a pond were installed and illuminated with metal halide lamps on a 20 watt basis. The vaulted cellars were freed from plaster and the natural stone vaults exposed and strengthened. In one of the two rooms, large crystals are now exhibited as exhibits and at the same time as a light source. The new opening took place on October 9, 2010.
museum
In the Auberlehaus Museum, in addition to palaeontology and archeology , you will find information on the social history of the city in originally furnished living rooms and workshops from the early 18th to the beginning of the 20th century. In addition to information about the development of Trossingen from an Alamannendorf to a city of music, there is also a paleontological collection. During several excavations in and around Trossingen at the beginning of the 20th century, researchers found the remains of 55 plateosaurs from the Keuper period . An exhibition on the topic of dinosaurs includes the Mesozoic era with dinosaurs from different habitats. Petrified reefs, turtles and the Trossinger plateosaurs can be viewed here. The paleontological collection in particular fascinates visitors thanks to the unusual guided tour through the black exhibition. This makes the impressive exhibits stand out. The mineral vault is also one of the highlights of the exhibition. The credo of the voluntarily run hotel is to allow as much as possible to be understood in the truest sense of the word. For example, you can touch a real dinosaur bone and stroke a Cape buffalo.
The house's African collections enjoy a supraregional reputation in both the zoological and the ethnological fields. The ethnological Africa department focuses on southern Africa with exhibits from the San and Kavango in Namibia, the Luvale in Zambia - here it is the Makishi dancers - and traditional costumes from the Zulu and Ndebele from South Africa. Another part deals with African musical instruments. The presentations give the visitors the feeling of experiencing the exhibits - many things can be touched, which creates a completely different relationship to the museum pieces.
From April 2011, the Auberlehaus will be presenting the replicas of the famous grave 58 from the Alemannic burial ground . The Trossinger burial ground is famous for the excellent wood preservation with the extraordinarily well-preserved and richly decorated Trossinger lyre . The replicas of the furniture from the noble grave from the year 580 are presented as an ensemble as part of a laying out of Mr. von Trossingen. A special feature is the analyzed content of the wooden canteen from the grave, in which the remains of a strong beer flavored and hopped with honey could be detected, the oldest hopped beer to date. The operating association of the Auberlehaus brews this beer at regular intervals and offers it to taste and buy on special occasions. In addition, visitors have the opportunity to see a burial with a preserved loom, parts of an Alemannic car body, weaving sword and others, including the wooden grave excavation, 1500 year old craftsmanship.
The Auberlehaus with the work and support group Heimatmuseum today also ensures that the tradition of the Trossinger Morgensupp is maintained .
Archives
The museum has been run on a voluntary basis for 1977, and also designed and looked after in the extensive archives. This includes a textile collection with around 100 original costumes from Trossingen. The textile archive also has white linen , Wilhelmine clothing and uniforms.
Also in the archives is the estate of Trossingen's honorary citizen and great-grandson Matthias Hohner's Hans Lenz , the first Federal Minister of Research in the Bonn Republic.
A photo archive with photos from Trossingen from around 1860 to the 1970s is partially available in illustrated books. The photo archives also contain extensive historical films, on the one hand on the history of the city and on the other hand, ethnographic and natural history. All films are transferred to modern data carriers and are therefore easily available.
Fritz Kiehn's zoological and ethnographic collection with well over 600 objects, as well as photos and films by Siegfried Lauterwasser , a friend of the Kiehn family, is also archived. The Kiehn collections are considered one of the largest natural history private collections in southern Germany. In addition to trophies and specimens from local game, the collection includes polar, brown, black, grizzley and Kodiak bears, almost all African antelope and cat species, ivory and rhinoceros.
In 2010, the Benedictine monastery in Weingarten , which was in the process of being dissolved, gave the Museum Auberlehaus its important natural history and ethnological collection on permanent loan. A good part of the natural history collection comes from Africa, large parts of it from today's Namibia. The collection can be subdivided into: mammalogy, ethnology, ornithology, archeology, mineralogy, paleontology, etc. The collection consists of around 20,000 individual objects according to initial estimates. An inventory is currently being drawn up which will also enable scientific work on the collection. Parts of the Weingarten Abbey collection will be shown in regular special exhibitions, and if necessary these will also be available as traveling exhibitions.
In 2013 the museum and its sponsoring association received over 100 original costumes and uniforms from Africa, South America, Arabia and Europe on permanent loan from a citizen of Trossingen.
The fine arts are represented by the works of the artist Karl Demetz , who comes from Trossingen , including his pictures of Russia, mostly charcoal drawings and watercolors that Demetz had made during the Second World War and depicting Russian landscapes, cities and people.
Permanent loans
In February 2013 the museum received around 60 state gifts to the Federal Republic of Germany on permanent loan from the Office of the Federal President in Berlin. Most of the artefacts come from African countries and are presented to visitors in changing exhibitions. Some objects are in the permanent exhibitions, such as B. a pair of fossil nautiluses from Madagascar , which are exhibited in the paleontological collection. The Cosmographia of Claudius Ptolemy , a precious facsimile of the original codex from the Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana , a gift from Pope Benedict XVI , is also much admired . to Federal President Christian Wulff .
Special exhibition
From October 3, 2012 to January 31, 2013, the Auberlehaus Museum presented the special exhibition "State Gifts - 1949 to 2012". In addition to the Office of the Federal President, lenders were the German Historical Museum Berlin , the Federal Chancellor Adenauer House Bad Honnef and the archive of the Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation Bonn. More than 50 state gifts to the Federal Republic of Germany were shown with a lot of background information about the protocol and the red carpet.
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ Auberlehaus renovation is ahead of schedule
- ↑ Conversion on the museum website ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ State gifts to the Federal Republic of Germany 1949-2012 ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 37 ″ N , 8 ° 38 ′ 19 ″ E