Bavarian Vogtland Museum
The Bavarian Vogtland Museum is a cultural, historical and natural history museum in Hof (Saale) .
Location of the museum
The Bavarian Vogtland Museum is housed in the hospital building, which dates back to the 13th century. The city archive and the hospital church are located next to a retirement home . It is part of the culture department of the city of Hof.
exhibition
The exhibits cover local history topics from the illustration of traditional handicrafts up to the time of industrialization , with textile production being of great regional importance. The technical progress is illustrated, e.g. B. in connection with the tram yard . The rural life and the cultivation of customs can be seen through furniture and other utensils for everyday use.
Refugees and displaced persons department in Hof
In January 2012 a new department for refugees and displaced persons was opened in Hof . This new section focuses on part of the city's recent history. After the Second World War , Hof became the first port of call for people who had lost their home in the German "eastern regions" or in Eastern Europe in the course of flight , displacement or forced resettlement . More than two million refugees and displaced persons were smuggled through Hof by the beginning of the 1950s, where they received board and lodging. The largest Bavarian refugee camp was located in the Moschendorf district . The population of Hof grew by almost a quarter due to the permanent influx of around 15,000 displaced persons. The local traditions they brought with them and their individual skills had a decisive influence on the development of the city in the post-war period.
Using the example of the Hof region, the exhibition presents the history of the arrival and integration of refugees and displaced persons in West Germany. It provides information on the causes and processes of flight, displacement and forced resettlement. The significance of the events within the cultural memory of the Federal Republic is shown.
Phases of the city's history
There are also three true-to-scale historical cityscapes in the museum, one of which illustrates the lasting and formative siege of Hof during the Second Margrave War . This also creates points of contact with the Vogtland Museum of the city of Plauen . Looking back at the situation on the German-German border , the term Vogtland is cross-border and the museum also presents common developments and connections. The exhibits range from a few preserved late medieval epitaphs back to prehistoric finds, e.g. B. a Stone Age ax from near Feilitzsch . Among the epitaphs is the tomb of the last knight of Wallenrode of the Streitau line from the abandoned cemetery of the Lorenzkirche .
Hof artist
Another focus is the local artistic creation. Among other things, works and contemporary testimonies by the painters Johann Christian Reinhart , Friedrich Unger and Franz Wilhelm Voigt are kept . Special exhibitions are held at regular intervals that allow the presentation of otherwise stored exhibits or the discussion of current topics or research results.
History of the museum
With a donation of a mineral collection, high school professor Moroff, member of the North Upper Franconian Association for Nature, History and Regional Studies , formed a basis of exhibits in 1896. Other collectors added to the association's holdings, which were kept in the Schillerschule in 1908. In 1913, the association donated the mineral collection to the city of Hof, which opened an exhibition in the old train station.
In 1927 the exhibition found a new location in the fire station on Hallplatz, and since 1983 the museum has been part of the Hospital Foundation. The first city archivist and director of the museum was Ernst Dietlein .
In 2020 the museum had an academic traineeship for the first time in its history .
Johann Christian Reinhart Cabinet
The Johann-Christian-Reinhart-Cabinett is right next to the Museum Bayerisches Vogtland. In addition to the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, the cabinet houses most of the Hof painter's works.
It was founded in 2008 and is the largest art gallery in the city. The initiative group “museum aktiv”, together with the hospital foundation, had the prerequisites for the art gallery.
Around 60 of 180 works are on permanent display, and there are also special exhibitions. The pictures shown belong to the art collection of the city of Hof.
Most of the works shown are etchings from Reinhart's time in Rome. Around 30 pictures are depictions of animals.
In a virtual gallery, which is divided between the Museum Bayerisches Vogtland and the Johann-Christian-Reinhart-Cabinett, the city of Hof makes an art collection of around 2,400 works accessible to the public in digitized form.
selection
The mouse tower and the Ehrenfels ruins
Tomb in the ruined Etruscan city of Falerium
Two greyhounds with a dead hare
literature
- Stadt Hof (ed.): Courtyard in the mirror of time . Yard 2000.
- Barbara Christoph: Museums in Upper Franconia. District of Upper Franconia, Bayreuth 2013, ISBN 978-3-94106-509-3 , pp. 144f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hof im Spiegel der Zeit , p. 11ff.
Coordinates: 50 ° 19 '26.4 " N , 11 ° 55' 6.5" E