Hofmühle Museum in Immenstadt
The Hofmühle Museum in Immenstadt has existed since 1990 as a regional focus museum for the Upper Allgäu. The originally 700 m² exhibition area was enlarged in 1997 to 1000 m². Event rooms for seminars and projects expand the infrastructure.
The museum tries to convey facts to the visitor through interaction ( adventure museum ). In addition to the classic themes of a local museum, the area of industrial history catches the eye. The exhibition shows Immenstadt in the Middle Ages and modern times as an important trading center for salt and canvas , the beginning of industrialization in 1855 with the “mechanical twine factory”, the economic miracle with the Riedel-Motoren-AG and the motorcycle legend “ Imme ”, the stockings of the company Kunert hosiery and knitwear factory and the post-industrial era with a branch plant of Robert Bosch GmbH from 1985th
There is a close connection to the “Kulturgemeinschaft Oberallgäu”, a joint establishment of the towns of Immenstadt , Sonthofen and the Oberstdorf market . With the so-called "Southern", this cultural funding institution organizes a regionally important annual exhibition of the visual artists of the southern Upper Allgäu. The Hofmühle in Immenstadt has hosted several events since 2003.
In addition, a small collection of valuable pictures by the landscape painter Johann Georg Grimm, who was born in 1846 in the incorporated lake near Bühl am Alpsee , highlights the Hofmühle among the numerous local museums. Grimm took several years of study trips to Mediterranean countries, then went to Brazil, taught at the imperial art academy in Rio de Janeiro , introduced open-air painting in Brazil and passed on his skills to later famous artists in his own painting school " O Grupo Grimm ". He died of tuberculosis in Palermo at the age of 41.
history
In the summer of 1919, the cheese wholesaler Rudolf Herz and like-minded people opened the "Oberallgäuer Heimatmuseum Immenstadt" in a historic farmhouse in Immenstadt, where he housed his art treasures from the time before the First World War. The predecessor organization of today's “Heimatverein Immenstadt e. V. ”looked after the collection. An air raid destroyed the museum building and many exhibits with it in the final months of the Second World War. However, with prudent foresight, Herz had already placed many exhibits in safe rooms in 1939.
His successor, the architect Martl Küchle, founded the “Heimatdienst Immenstadt” in 1950 and opened a new “Heimatmuseum Immenstadt” in 1957 in the Hörmannhaus on Klosterplatz. However, the building left by the Capuchin Order was too small and in too bad a condition for the collection items, so that a solution had to be found further. Finally, in 1983, the city bought the former court mill, which was then threatened with decay, and renovated the listed building.
The mill , already mentioned in the 15th century, was - always using water power - in the 16th century a grinding , sawing and paper mill and after 1650 a hammer and axle forge. After a devastating fire in 1763 burned down the craftsmen's quarter with its blacksmiths, Count Franz Hugo von Königsegg-Rothenfels (ruled 1759–1771) had today's court mill built. Under the Kingdom of Bavaria in the 19th century, it was known as the “city mill” and was the most efficient mill in the Swabian district. The last owner of the “mechanical twine factory” used it to generate electricity, as a yarn dyeing factory and as a warehouse, making it part of Immenstadt's industrial history.
The renovated Hofmühle went into operation in 1990 as an innovative local museum.
Web links
- Museum website
- Events of the Oberallgäu cultural area in the Hofmühle last accessed on December 8, 2010.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Information leaflet from the museum. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Museum Hofmühle Immenstadt, archived from the original on June 27, 2011 ; Retrieved December 8, 2010 . 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.
- ↑ Keeping and moving. (No longer available online.) Museum Hofmühle Immenstadt, archived from the original on July 8, 2012 ; Retrieved December 25, 2012 . 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: 47 ° 33 ′ 42.5 ″ N , 10 ° 13 ′ 16.5 ″ E