Museum of Patriotic Antiquities

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Museum building in the 1930s

The Kiel Museum of Patriotic Antiquities , a museum of prehistoric antiquities since 1936 , was the state archaeological museum of the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein and is the predecessor of today's state archaeological museum and the Viking museum Haithabu of the Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Foundation Schloss Gottorf and the Institute for Ur- and early history of Kiel University .

history

The museum was founded in 1835 by the Royal Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg Society for the collection and preservation of patriotic antiquities , which had been founded a year earlier . Although the museum competed with similar museums in Hamburg and Copenhagen as well as the Flensburg collection founded in 1852 , it was able to hold its own against these houses. In 1873, after the founding company was dissolved, both the Kiel Museum and the Flensburg Collection were transferred to the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel as a provincial museum and university institute . At the 100th anniversary it was renamed the Museum of Prehistoric Antiquities. The museum was responsible for the excavations in Haithabu from 1900 to 1915 and 1930 to 1939 .

During the Third Reich , Gustav Schwantes , supported by Herbert Jankuhn and the Ahnenerbe , planned to expand the museum into an old Germanic central museum. This also included concentrating the exhibition on the archaeological pieces with the Nydam boat and the rune stones as centerpieces. All art historical and folkloric exhibits were therefore given to the Thaulow Museum and the Kunsthalle in the course of the renaming of the museum .

In addition, the museum was expanded in October 1937 to include the provincial office for prehistoric and prehistoric land surveys and monument preservation of the province of Schleswig-Holstein under Karl Kersten , which systematically recorded and mapped the archaeological sites in the region.

During the Second World War, the museum building was destroyed by bombs in 1944. Most of the evacuated collection was saved because large parts of it had already been evacuated. It is now in the rooms of Schloss Gottorf .

Directors

literature

  • Henning Haßmann , D. Jantzen: The German prehistory - an outstanding national science. The Kiel Museum of Prehistoric Antiquities in the Third Reich . In: Offa Vol. 51, Neumünster 1994, pp. 9-35
  • Gustav Schwantes : Festschrift for the centenary of the Museum of Prehistoric Antiquities in Kiel , Karl Wachholtz, Neumünster 1936
  • Gustav Schwantes : The museum of prehistoric antiquities in Kiel , in: Germanien, monthly books for Germanenkunde to the knowledge of the German essence , 11th year, new series volume I, issue 2, February, Ahnenerbe -Stiftungsverlag, Berlin 1939, pp. 78–83

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b How it all began. ( Memento of the original from July 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Foundation Gottorf Castle, accessed on July 30, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schloss-gottorf.de
  2. ^ Fr. Knorr: Professor Dr. Johanna Mestorf . In: Communications from the Anthropological Association in Schleswig Holstein 1911. pp. 1–19.
  3. ^ Mestorf, Johanna: Handelmann, Gottfried Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) . Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, p. 748 f.
  4. ↑ Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel: Great researchers from the fjord: Johanna Mestorf , accessed on October 8, 2017.

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Coordinates: 54 ° 19 ′ 30.2 ″  N , 10 ° 8 ′ 22.6 ″  E