Cheb Museum

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The main building of the museum on Ringplatz
Museum courtyard in Milíkov

The Cheb Museum (Czech: Muzeum Cheb ) is a museum in the town of Cheb (German: Eger). The carrier is the Karlovy Vary Region .

overview

The museum is located on the north side of the market square (Ringplatz) in a town house , which is also known as the “Stadthaus”, “Junckerhaus” or “Pachelbelhaus”. It is not identical to the house on the east side of the square, also called Pachelbelhaus .

The building of the museum dates from the 14th century and thus from the Gothic period , when the city of Eger, today's Cheb, was the political center of the surrounding Egerland . At the beginning of the 17th century, the house was rebuilt in the Renaissance style. At that time it belonged to the mayor of Eger, the Protestant Alexander Pachelbel. It was confiscated at the beginning of the Thirty Years War. Field Marshal Wallenstein was murdered in this building in 1634 . It then served as the town commandant's house or as the town hall. The museum was founded in 1873 by archivist and librarian Georg Schmid (t). It was further looked after and expanded by archivists who followed him and it survived the turbulent times of the First and Second World Wars. It shows exhibits from the geology and historical development of the Egerland landscape and the history of its citizens and farmers , also on the basis of numerous publications.

The museum houses exhibits on the city's history, Wallenstein and the Thirty Years War. A valuable exhibit is the Egerer Antependium , a Romanesque embroidery from the Clariss convent in Cheb . Another special feature is a golden sun, which originally adorned the spire of Neuhaus Castle on the Eger and which came to Cheb as a trophy after a feud. In 1913 the museum acquired a valuable collection from the historian Hermann Hallwich a . a. of miniatures made of ivory . Around 1920, an extensive collection of traditional rural costumes , tools, glasses and pictures from the history of the Egerland came into the museum's holdings through an inheritance from the estate of the doctor Michael Müller .

In a historic half-timbered house belonging to a farming family in Milíkov u Mariánských Lázní , the museum runs an exhibition on life in the country from the 19th century to the present day, which supplements the holdings in the museum building.

literature

  • Lorenz Schreiner (ed.): Monuments in the Egerland. Documentation of a German cultural landscape between Bavaria and Bohemia. With the participation of the State Archives in Cheb / Eger under Jaromir Bohac as well as Viktor Baumgarten, Roland Fischer, Erich Hammer, Ehrenfried John and Heribert Sturm . Amberg in der Oberpfalz 2004, Pachelbel-Haus p. 79, Stadthaus p. 117 with illustrations
  • Karl Siegl : The catalogs of the Eger city archive, Eger 1900. With its numerous publications from the holdings of the archive
  • Collective of museum workers (ed.): Museum of Cheb Czechoslovakia, Propagacni Tworba 1979, with a brief history of the museum and museum work in Cheb. With numerous, impressive illustrations from the holdings of the museum and the city of Eger / Cheb. In German language
  • Jaromir Bohac: Ten pictures from the history of the Eger Museum, Cheb / Eger 2003, in Czech and German. with short biographies and portrais, photos and additional historical pictures by Karl Huss ; Joseph Sebastian Grüner ; Georg Schmid (t); Vincent Prokl; Heinrich Gradl ; Alois John ; Michael Müller (local history researcher) ; Karl Siegl ; Heribert Sturm , Jan Kubin and Mira Mladejovska , ISBN 80-85018-35-7

Web links

Commons : Museum Cheb  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2M STUDIO sro [www.2mstudio.cz]; e-mail: info@2mstudio.cz: The town house | Cheb. In: cheb.cz. Encyclopedia Cheb, accessed January 22, 2016 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 48.5 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 12.3 ″  E