Museum in the knight's house

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Offenburg knight house

The Museum im Ritterhaus is a museum in Offenburg in Baden-Württemberg. It was opened by Carl Frowin Mayer in 1900 as the "Museum of Natural History and Ethnology" and has been housed in the former knight's house of the Ortenau Imperial Knighthood since 1959 . The focus of the museum's collections is on the areas of city history, archeology, geology and natural history, ethnology and hunting trophies, as well as religious folk art, and the house also houses the city archive.

history

The knight's house was built in 1784 as the mansion of the imperial schoolmaster Franz Georg von Rienecker with classical elements . Between 1803 and 1806 it housed the directory of the Ortenau Imperial Knighthood, which had previously been set up in Kehl . In this imperial knighthood, the direct imperial nobility of the Ortenau had come together. In 1806 the knighthood was mediatized . It lost its position directly under the Empire and dissolved. The building became the auditor of the Baden Oberamt.

In 1848/49 Offenburg was occupied by Prussian troops after the Baden Revolution of 1848/49 had failed, and the knight's house served as a barracks for several years. On October 1, 1864, the court and house court of the Baden judicial administration moved into the building, and from 1879 it became the Baden regional court . As part of the move, the building was structurally changed and a new building was erected behind the courtyard to accommodate the jury court room; shortly before 1900 the attic was expanded.

St. Andreas Hospital in Offenburg; the Museum of Natural History and Ethnology was housed here from 1900 to 1959.

In 1957 the state built a new judicial building in Oststadt, so that the city of Offenburg could buy the knight's house in August 1958. As early as 1894, the district secretary Carl Frowin Mayer (1827-1919) began to build up a municipal collection with the support of city councilors Georg Monsch and Adolf Geck. In 1900 he opened a “Museum of Nature and Ethnology” in the building of the St. Andreas Hospital in Offenburg, which he managed until 1917.

In 1917 Ernst Batzer (1882–1938) took over the management and shaped the collection until his death in 1938, shifting the focus from natural history, mineralogy and ethnology to local history. In 1924 the museum was renamed "Municipal Collections". In 1959 the collection was housed together with the Office for Family and Youth in the former knight's house, and the city's archive was added in 1964. In 1978 the Office for Family and Youth moved into a new building. From 1985 to 1988 the building was renovated and converted, and in 1989 the museum was reopened in 1989 after a complete redesign.

Building

It is a two-story house with seventeen window axes. It is structured by a three-storey central projecting with a triangular gable. In the corner of the courtyard is a tower from the 18th century with a spiral staircase made of red sandstone that leads to the attic without a spindle.

Exhibitions and collection

The museum houses collections with a focus on urban history, archeology, geology and natural history, ethnology and hunting trophies as well as religious folk art. The inventory includes more than 10,000 objects.

In addition to archaeological excavation pieces in the new presentation “Damn long ago! Archeology in the Ortenau ”are evidence of the city's history from the Middle Ages to the present day.

On the first floor, the permanent exhibition "Between Revolution and Economic Miracle" shows Offenburg's political and economic path to the modern age, from the revolution in 1848 to the economic miracle in the 1950s. The “Imperial City” section, which deals with the history of the city of Offenburg from its foundation in the 11th century to the end of the 18th century, is also located there.

The natural history department "Forest - Land - River", which was redesigned in 2015, presents interesting facts about regional natural history and geological exhibits from the Ortenau region with many hand-on stations to touch and try out.

The colonial ethnology collection, redesigned in 2017, and the big game trophies from the Cron collection are presented on the second floor in the exhibition “A Window to the World”.

The museum also has several branches:

The Salmen are one of the branches of the museum in the Ritterhaus.
  • the municipal gallery in the Kulturforum , which presents exhibitions on contemporary art
  • the Salmen, a memorial to the history of the Baden revolution and the history of the Jews in Offenburg
  • the studio house of the glass artist Karl Vollmer, who died in 1975
  • the lapidarium with a collection of historical stone sculptures in the cellar and garden of the Aenne-Burda-Stift
  • the mikveh , a late medieval or early modern Jewish ritual bath
  • the Jewish cemetery on the area of ​​the Waldbachfriedhof.

Web links

Commons : Category: Museum im Ritterhaus (Offenburg)  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Ritterhaus / Museum im Ritterhaus - history on the official website of the city of Offenburg.
  2. ^ Official website of the museum - history .
  3. a b c d Museum im Ritterhaus, Offenburg on landeskunde-online.de.
  4. Ritterhaus / Museum im Ritterhaus on the official website of the City of Offenburg.

Coordinates: 48 ° 28 '7.2 "  N , 7 ° 56" 39.9 "  E