Rock Sea Museum
The Felsenmeer Museum is a local history museum opened in Hemer in 1989 . It is built in 1902, under monument protection standing Villa Grah in the district Sundwig housed and after the neighboring Felsenmeer been named. The museum gives an insight into the history of the sea of rocks, where iron ore was mined more than a thousand years ago. Further topics are the industrial and urban history of Hemer.
The museum is supported by the Hemer Citizens' Association and Local History Association, which discussed the establishment of a local history museum as early as the 1960s. A suitable building and enough exhibits were only found almost 30 years later so that the museum could be set up.
subjects
In the area of Hemer's industrial history, the Felsenmeer Museum focuses on mining in the Felsenmeer Hemer and metal processing. In addition to models and boards, a preserved racing fire stove is on display. A roll of wire and a brass movement can be seen as models. The museum operators also address the paper industry. Products from well-known Hemeran companies show the current industrial structure of the city.
In the area of geological history, the focus is on the formation of the Hemeraner caves and the sea of rocks. In addition, there are exhibits such as bone finds from the early and prehistoric times of the Hemer area.
The main focus of the city history ranges from a reconstruction of a Franconian grave from the 7th century to exhibits about National Socialism in Hemer. Essential parts of a coin find with over 3,500 individual pieces, which caused a sensation during excavation work in Westig in 1949 , are on display. Some exhibits are dedicated to the origins of the displaced .
The museum also provides information on the life stories of Hemeraner Friedrich Leopold Woeste , Willibrord Benzler and Hans Prinzhorn , among other things in the form of a Prinzhorn archive, which largely consists of copies.
literature
- Rock Sea Museum. Fascinating insights into the geological, industrial and urban history of Hemer. in: Michael Kaub (Ed.): The city network. Balve, Hemer, Iserlohn and Menden. 1st edition. 2009. ISBN 978-3-86037-397-2
Web links
Altena: German Wire Museum | County Mark Museum | World Youth Hostel Museum | Balve: Luisenhütte Wocklum | Museum of Prehistory and Early History | Halver: Local history museum Halver | Hemer: Felsenmeer Museum | Iserlohn: Hemberg Museum | German Cave Museum | Historic Maste-Barendorf factory complex | Historic grain distillery Bimberg | Iserlohn Museum for Crafts and Postal History | East German Heimatstuben and local history museum Ohlau | Collection from urban cleaning and waste disposal | Iserlohn City Museum | Villa Wessel | House Letmathe | Kierspe: Bakelite Museum Kierspe | Schleiper Hammer | Lüdenscheid: Bremecker Hammer | History Museum of the City of Lüdenscheid | Phenomenta Lüdenscheid | Municipal Gallery Lüdenscheid | Menden: Museum Menden | Industrial Museum Menden | Westphalian Carnival Museum | Plettenberg: Heimathaus Plettenberg | Schalksmühle: Schalksmühle Hunting Museum | Werdohl: Werdohl City Museum
Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 46.5 ″ N , 7 ° 46 ′ 16.5 ″ E