Museum of the City of Worms

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Museum of the City of Worms
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Museum of the city of Worms in the former Andreasstift
Data
place Worms coordinates: 49 ° 37 ′ 41.4 ″  N , 8 ° 21 ′ 26.9 ″  EWorld icon
Art
City history
opening 1881
Number of visitors (annually) 11,401 (2010/11)
operator
City of Worms
management
Olaf Mückain (scientific director), Ulrich Mieland (administration)
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-148810

The Museum of the City of Worms is located in the building of the former Andreasstift . The building ensemble with inner courtyard is a listed building. The sponsor of the museum is the Rhineland-Palatinate city ​​of Worms .

Exhibition content

Permanent exhibition

Dreifaltigkeitskirche clockwork , manufactured by Johann Jacob Möllinger in 1742 .

In addition to changing special exhibitions with different focuses, for which the former St. Andrew's Church is mostly used, the museum's permanent exhibition on the first floor exhibits excavation finds from the Neolithic and Bronze Age as well as Roman finds, including altars, tombstones, dishes and jugs. The extensive collection of Roman glasses is of particular importance. Early Christian tombstones and grave goods from the time of the Great Migration in the 5th century AD are on display, such as restored Roman glass beakers. On the second floor, the history of the city of Worms from the early Middle Ages is discussed. The “Luther Room” keeps the memory of the reformer who appeared before the emperor in Worms in 1521 alive. A "glass cabinet" shows glasses from the late Middle Ages. The beginning of industrialization, which also includes the leather industry, which was important for the city in the 19th and 20th centuries, is a further focus. The “White Hall” is located on the ground floor and shows a model of the city of Worms before it was destroyed in the Palatinate War of Succession in 1689. Films from the 1920s to 1950s give an impression of the war and post-war era.

The lapidarium in the former cloister with tombstones and sarcophagi from Roman times to modern times is accessible without a ticket. The works of the “Städtische Gemäldegalerie” belonging to the museum are shown in special exhibitions.

Special exhibitions

The large special exhibitions of the museum take up important points in the city's history and essential archaeological finds:

  • 1971: "Luther" for the 450th anniversary of the Diet of 1521
  • 1981: "The Nibelungenlied - Time and Meaning"
  • 1983: “ A strong castle is our God ” on the 500th birthday of Martin Luther
  • 1989: "… burned down and totally ruined" for the 300th return of the city's destruction in the Palatinate War of Succession in 1689
  • 1990: "May the earth be easy for you": Finds from the northern Roman cemetery
  • 1995: “Kaiser, Reich, Reform” on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the Reichstag in 1495
  • 2000: " Bishop Burchard (1000-1025) - 1000 years of Romanesque in Worms"
  • 2006: "The early Celts in Worms-Herrnsheim" and "The first Romans in Rheinhessen"
  • 2014: "The artist Gustav Nonnenmacher ", multimedia supported by the "Nonnenmacher-App"
  • 2018: "Between Heaven and Earth - 1000 Years of Worms Cathedral"

Four large special exhibitions were planned for the period between 2018 and 2021, some of which were to be organized in cooperation with the Mannheim Reiss-Engelhorn Museums . The museum is structurally preparing for an exhibition in 2021 on the 500th anniversary of the Reichstag in Worms in 1521 and Martin Luther's appearance there.

Smaller special exhibitions take up regionally important topics and those of everyday and contemporary history, such as the exhibitions planned for 2016 “PARIS - BERLIN - WORMS. Shop window mannequins and department stores in transition ”from the collection of the Mannheim cultural scientist Wolfgang Knapp and“ The Great War in Small Format. Artists see the First World War ”from the Letter Foundation with small reliefs by Ludwig Gies and graphic works by other artists.

history

In the cloister around the courtyard there is a lapidarium with tombstones and sarcophagi from Roman times to modern times.

The museum is located in a listed building ensemble, which has its origins in the church building of the former St. Andrew's Church, built in 1020. It has been changed several times over the centuries, some of it fundamentally, and is attributed to the late Romanesque .

In 1881, historical finds by the medical councilor Carl Koehl and the entrepreneur and patron Maximilian von Heyl were initially kept in the renovated St. Paul's Church . The development of the museum was shaped by the grammar school teacher and historian August Weckerling and the medical officer Koehl. In the 1920s, the holdings became the property of the city and, under the direction of the museum director Erich Grill, a move took place in the former St. Andrew's Church, which was rebuilt between 1927 and 1929. On July 1, 1930, the day after the Rhineland was liberated, the museum was ceremoniously opened at its new location in the presence of the Hessian President Bernhard Adelung , where it still exists today. When the location was changed, some of the exhibits were lost.

During the Second World War, the museum buildings were badly damaged in the air raids on Worms. The outsourced museum inventory was largely preserved. As early as 1947, the rooms of the museum were ready for use again, from then on they not only housed the exhibits, the museum rooms housed all the city's cultural institutes from then on. This lasted until 1963, when the city library, the city public libraries, the city archive and the adult education center moved out of the confined spaces again. Since then, the Andreasstift has only housed the museum again.

The museum concept created after the restoration of the buildings lasted until the 1980s, when first the Roman and then the prehistoric Bronze Age department were redesigned. In the 2000s, the medieval and modern departments were redesigned.

From 2007, the Andreas Church was first fundamentally renovated. A renovation and expansion of the exhibition rooms in the adjoining monastery building is planned by 2018/19, the financing of which has not yet been clarified.

literature

Museum guide
Secondary literature
  • Gerold Bönnen : "New in difficult times". The inauguration of the Museum of the City of Worms in 1930 in the area of ​​tension between culture and politics , in: Der Wormsgau . Scientific journal of the city of Worms and the Worms antiquity association , Vol. 24 (2006), pp. 85–114.
  • Mathilde Grünewald: The Romans in Worms , Theiss, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-8062-0479-9 .
  • Mathilde Grünewald, Erwin Hahn: Between the Varus Battle and the Migration Period. The Roman grave finds from Worms and Rheinhessen in the Museum of the City of Worms , 2 volumes, Kunstverlag Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2006, ISBN 978-3-89870-325-3 .
  • Mathilde Grünewald, Alfried Wieczorek : Between Roman times and Charlemagne. The early medieval grave finds from Worms and Rheinhessen in the Museum of the City of Worms in the Andreasstift , 3 volumes, Kunstverlag Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2009, ISBN 978-3-89870-568-4 .

Web links

Commons : Andreasstift (Worms)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Gallé : Kulturbericht 2011. (PDF) September 27, 2012, accessed on February 28, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Worms. ( Memento from June 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Mainz 2018 [ Version 2020 is available. ] , P. 3 (PDF; 5.0 MB).
  3. ↑ a b History & Collection of the Museum of the City of Worms in the Andreasstift. (No longer available online.) Worms.de, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on March 1, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.worms.de
  4. ↑ a b Data and images from the 125-year history of the Museum of the City of Worms. Worms Antiquities Association , accessed on March 1, 2016 .
  5. ^ A b c Museum of the City of Worms> City of Worms. In: worms.de. Retrieved February 26, 2016 .
  6. ↑ a b Susanne Müller: Conversion of the Museum Andreasstift Worms: Does the Burgundy exhibition have to be postponed in 2019? In: wormser-zeitung.de. February 4, 2016, accessed March 1, 2016 .
  7. ↑ a b Friedrich Maria Illert : Worms on the Rhine - guide through history and sights . Erich Norberg, Worms 1964, p. 85 ff .
  8. ↑ Gerold Bönnen : History of the City of Worms . 2nd Edition. Theiss , Stuttgart 2015, p. 570 .