Rectory (Strasburg)

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Rectory in Strasburg (Uckermark)

The rectory (also called Suhrsches Orphanage ) is a listed building in Strasburg (Uckermark) , a town in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

location

The Pfarrstrasse runs in a west-east direction in the northern area of ​​the historic city center. A sidewalk branches off from here in a southerly direction to the Church of St. Marien . The building stands east of this path on a plot of land that is not fenced .

history

The building was built in 1760 and was used as a school from 1763 . In the course of industrialization, the population rose sharply at the end of the 19th century. The city therefore decided on a new building, which was realized a few meters further northwest with the Red School in 1895. The building, which has now become vacant, was converted with donations from the Suhr couple and used as an orphanage in 1899 . After the end of the Second World War , it was first used as a school from 1948 to 1975, then as the town's local museum . It was renovated in 1996.

Building description

The building was essentially made of bricks , which were then plastered . It is a five-axis building that can be entered from the west through a centrally placed, segment-arched gate. To the left and right of the entrance there is a rectangular window in each of the four other axes. On the upper floor there are five smaller, rectangular windows. The building has a hipped roof .

exhibition

Bowl stone in front of the museum

The showpiece of the museum is a more than 100 year old, 1.75 m high straw clock, which was created by the shoemaker Otto Wegener from Strasburg in 15 years of work. Wegener only used rye straw and oat straw to represent the numbers and pointers for the construction. The mechanism dispenses with any metal, glue or other binding agent.

Another focus of the exhibition, in addition to a representation of club life, is the Huguenots . They came to Strasburg in 1691 and have significantly shaped the life of the city. In addition, the museum shows old handicrafts and focuses on the pottery and the shoemaker. For example, a shoemaker's workshop from around 1900 and two tiled stoves from Strasburg pottery can be seen. There is also a classroom from the same era.

Since October 2010 these exhibitions have been supplemented by a small gallery . Excerpts from the life of Max Schmeling , who was born in the Klein Luckow district of the neighboring municipality of Jatznick , are shown there. The small gallery is used for further exhibitions.

In front of the museum you can see a shell stone that was discovered in 2000 during archaeological excavations in Altstädter Straße . The stone, which weighs around 14 tons, has more than 200 bowl-like depressions that were created in the Neolithic or Bronze Age .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information board on the Suhr orphanage, at the rectory, December 2019.
  2. ↑ Eckhard Oberdörfer: Upswing thanks to the Huguenots . In: Ostsee-Zeitung , August 14, 2013, accessed on January 6, 2020.
  3. ↑ Excerpt from the original description of the artificial clock made of straws (from 1928) , website of the city of Strasburg (Um), accessed on January 6, 2020.
  4. ^ Gallery in the museum , website of the city of Strasburg (Um), accessed on January 6, 2020.
  5. ↑ Schälchenstein Strasburg , website of Ostseedbad Dierhagen, accessed on January 6, 2020.

Coordinates: 53 ° 30'27.6 "  N , 13 ° 44'44.7"  E