Museum Wasserburg
The Museum Wasserburg presents themed areas on the history of the city of Wasserburg am Inn from early history to the beginning of the 20th century. The museum is a member of the IMGIS museum association - “Initiative museums and galleries between Inn and Salzach”.
history
History of the museum
From 1819 to 1858 the town clerk Joseph Heiserer put together a collection of old coins, weapons and other historical objects. It was dissolved after his death, but it can be seen as a forerunner of the museum. In 1888 the Museum Wasserburg was first opened in the Michaelskapelle. The State Office for Monument Preservation reorganized the holdings in 1926 and relocated parts of the exhibition to the town hall and the Schrannenhalle. The Heimatverein acquired the house in Herrengasse in 1936 and opened the “Heimathaus” in 1938. In 1945 the Heimatverein transferred the house to the city. In 1963, the city acquired the neighboring manor house for the growing collection. After the renovation of parts of the house in the 1980s, today's permanent exhibition was set up.
History of the building
The museum building was built in the middle of the 15th century. The late Gothic town house, built in the Inn-Salzach style , was owned by the Altershammer / Kulbinger families at the beginning of the 16th century, as can be seen from the alliance coat of arms in the late Gothic living hall. After this family, the owners are not known again until the 18th century. Rapidly changing owners, butchers' shops on the ground floor and later several rental apartments characterize the time after that, until the Heimatverein acquired it in 1936 and converted it into a museum.
Description of the house
The late Gothic town house is located in the middle of Wasserburg's old town. The interior of the house is accessed through two Gothic pointed arches and under the arched arcades. The main building is followed by an inner courtyard and the rear building in Färbergasse, which was formerly used as a stable and barn. Today the special exhibitions take place here. The visitor goes up three wooden stairs to the three upper floors. The original residential structures can still be found on the first floor with a Gothic living hall and a kitchen. A bay window leads from the living room to Herrengasse. From the first floor and the attic you can go through a door in the communal wall to the neighboring house at Herrengasse 17, which houses further exhibition rooms. The former hatches of both houses are in the attic.
Permanent exhibition
On the ground floor, the topics of traffic, justice and penal systems, the citizens' and militia and the rifle system are housed. The lapidarium and cannons of the museum are located in the inner courtyard. A late Gothic living room with furniture from the 16th and 17th centuries, the pharmacist and medical system, a bourgeois living room from the 18th and 19th centuries. Century, old musical instruments, bourgeois costume, the prehistory and early history of the region, the administrative history of the city, a school room, a historical kitchen as well as the models of Wasserburger wax pullers and gingerbread makers can be seen on the first floor. The second floor is reserved for rural living. The top floor shows the subjects of craft and trade, guilds, measures and weights, ceramics, local costumes and various staged workshops.
Special exhibition
The Museum Wasserburg presents changing exhibitions on historical topics and Wasserburg artists. In the last few years these have been a. Exhibitions on the history of the Wasserburg fire brigade, the Wasserburg artist Willi Ernst or the entertainment culture of the 1920s and 1930s. Special shows on Christmas themes are held regularly in November, e.g. B. 2015 for St. Nicholas.
literature
- Fehler, Sonja: Of friendship, enmity and a long love affair: the Heimatverein Wasserburg and the municipal collection . In: Heimatverein (historical association) eV for Wasserburg am Inn and the surrounding area in connection with the city of Wasserburg am Inn: Heimat am Inn 33/34 contributions to the history, art and culture of the Wasserburg region . Wasserburger Bücherstube, Wasserburg 2013, pp. 137–183.
- Steffan, Ferdinand: Herrengasse 15. History of the house of the city museum. The Kulbinger, Altershamer, Donnersberg and Herwart families. In: Heimatverein (historical association) eV For Wasserburg am Inn and the surrounding area: Heimat am Inn 16/17 contributions to the history, art and culture of the Wasserburger Land . Wasserburger Bücherstube, Wasserburg 1997, pp. 5-41.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 40.9 ″ N , 12 ° 13 ′ 56.5 ″ E