Museum Geisslerhaus

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Museum Geisslerhaus
Heinrich Geißler's birthplace in Neuhaus am Rennweg in Thuringia.
The Geißlerhaus museum in the house where Heinrich Geißler was born
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place World iconCoordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 13.6 ″  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 46.4 ″  E
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opening May 26, 1989
operator
Local museum Geißlerhaus Neuhaus am Rennweg e. V.
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ISIL DE-MUS-058128

The Geißlerhaus museum is a local history and technology museum in Neuhaus am Rennweg in the south of Thuringia . It is located in the birthplace of the glass blower and instrument maker Heinrich Geißler (1814–1879) in the Igelshieb district .

It is operated by the Friends of the Heimatmuseum Geißlerhaus Neuhaus am Rennweg e. V.

history

Heinrich Geißler was a pioneer of electricity and vacuum technology . His investigations with low-pressure gas discharge tubes , so-called Geissler tubes , led to new knowledge in the research field of gas discharge physics. The continuation of these experiments enabled the discovery of X-rays and opened the door to atomic and nuclear physics . The Geissler aspirator is also known in specialist circles, a mercury vacuum pump without which, basically, the manufacture of the Geissler tubes and their many successors would not have been possible.

The building at Sonneberger Str. 106 was erected in the middle of the 18th century as a house for a family of glassblowers in the style typical of Thuringian places in the slate mountains (including a crooked hip roof , symmetrical to the street front, dwarf house , entrance on the eaves). It contained both living and working spaces. On the 50th anniversary of Heinrich Geißler's death, a memorial plaque was put up in 1929. It was used as a residential building until it was purchased by the city of Neuhaus am Rennweg around 1980. After that, it was the city, the VEB microelectronics Neuhaus , the VEB Kreisbau Neuhaus and the after work brigade Franz Eberhardt expanded rebuilt and. On May 26, 1989, the 175th birthday of Heinrich Geißler, it was inaugurated as a local museum .

After another renovation and expansion from 2008, the newly designed Geißlerhaus was opened on October 14, 2010 .

exhibition

  • The life and work of Heinrich Geißler
  • Works by various glass designers born in Neuhaus am Rennweg: Albin Skull (1905 to 1999), Kurt Wallstab (1920 to 2002), Max Traut (1906 to 1970)
  • Glass and porcelain production, porcelain painting, box making, forest history

In addition to the original tubes made by Heinrich Geißler himself, Geissler tubes that are in operation can also be viewed in the exhibition .

Web links

Commons : Museum Geißlerhaus  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Geisslerhaus Friends' Association. In: www.foerderverein-geisslerhaus.de. Local museum Geißlerhaus Neuhaus am Rennweg e. V., accessed on January 4, 2019 .
  2. ^ Horst Traut: The Friends of Geißlerhaus Neuhaus am Rennweg e. V. In: Dr. Heinrich Geißler On the 200th birthday of the glass technician and inventor . Frankenblick 2014, p. 66 .
  3. ↑ Museum Geissler house. In: www.museumsverband-thueringen.de. Museum Association of Thuringia e. V., accessed on January 4, 2019 .
  4. ^ Karl Eichhorn: Life and work of the Thuringian glass instrument maker and pioneer of vacuum technology. In: Dr. Heinrich Geißler On the 200th birthday of the glass technician and inventor . Frankenblick 2014, p. 10 .
  5. ^ A b Horst Traut: The Geißlerhaus in Neuhaus am Rennweg . In: Dr. Heinrich Geißler On the 200th birthday of the glass technician and inventor . Frankenblick 2014, p. 64 .