Prussia Museum
The Prussia Museum in Königsberg was the prehistoric department of the Prussia ancient society. It guarded the Prussia collection with documents and exhibits on the regional and folklore of East Prussia.
history
The museum was located in Königsberg Castle, initially in the royal house, later on the ground floor of the south wing. At the entrance stood the Mankesteen , the primitive, mighty granite image of a god as a border marker. In 1924 the Muscovite Hall was included in the museum. Also on display were the sleigh with which the Great Elector led the hunt across the Curonian Lagoon in January 1679 , the flags and uniforms of the Prussian regiments and the arrowhead that the Order Marshal Erasmus von Reitzenstein had carried in his head for years, as well as the 1939 Found bog body girl from Dröbnitz .
From 1891 to 1916 Adalbert Bezzenberger was director of the museum. At the same time he was the editor of the meeting reports of the Prussia antiquity society , which was founded in 1844 by Ernst August Hagen . The last director of the Prussia Museum was Wilhelm Gaerte .
In 1972 a “new” Prussia was founded in Düsseldorf in order to continue “to make the cultural achievements of old Prussia visible”. Remnants of the Prussia collection are at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and in Russian or Polish custody.
literature
- Wilhelm Otto Gaerte: Short guide through the Prussia Museum. Koenigsberg 1935.
- Wulf D. Wagner : The ancient society Prussia. Insights into a century of history, archeology and museums in East Prussia (1844–1945) . Husum Verlag 2019, ISBN 978-3-89876-985-3 .
Web links
- Chronicle of the Prussia Museum . In: Prussia-Gesellschaft.de
- Rediscovered objects in the Prussia Museum (Ostpreußenblatt, January 8, 2000)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt : Königsberg from A to Z - a city dictionary . Leer 1972
- ↑ Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung , No. 38, September 19, 2009, p. 20