Reutlinger Heimatmuseum
The Reutlinger Heimatmuseum is a museum on the city history of the former Free Imperial City (until 1802), then the Württemberg Oberamt - and now the district town of Reutlingen in Baden-Württemberg . The local history museum was founded in 1890 by an association for art and antiquity (which was founded a little later in the Reutlinger Geschichtsverein, which was established in 1889 and is still in existence today ). His collection was initially housed in changing rooms before it found its current location in the former Königsbronner Hof from 1939 onwards . In the museum, which has been expanded and redesigned since 1996, in addition to the permanent collection of exhibits on event , social and, above all, cultural history , special exhibitions on specific topics relating to the historical development of Reutlingen and its surrounding region are shown at irregular intervals.
The local history museum and its branch offices - the industrial magazine , the museum in the village in the Betzingen district and the seed trade museum in the Gönningen district - are managed by the Reutlingen Cultural Office, whose director is also the curator of the local history museum.
building
The current local history museum is set up in the Königsbronner Hof, a restored half-timbered house in Reutlingen's old town . The listed building is one of the oldest existing structures in the city. It was built as a stone house in 1278 and extended with a half-timbered extension in 1537. By the end of the early modern period it was known as tithes and Pfleghof the long -reaching immediate Cistercian monastery Königsbronn , then as Oberamt House (comparable to a modern district office ) has been used.
History of the collection
In 1889 the first " Collection of Urban Antiquities " was presented to the public in Reutlingen during a meeting of the Sülchgauer Antiquities Association . With this presentation of “ old things ” the foundation of the current museum collection was laid. In the course of the decades, other culturally and historically relevant additions were made to the original collection - a circumstance that over time raised the question of a suitable storage and presentation location. The collection was temporarily housed in the secondary school until it could be exhibited for a longer period in the donation house (today the central city art museum ). The teacher Gustav Haag began in 1909 to systematize and expand the Reutlingen “ antiquity collection ”.
In the 1920s - largely supported by the Reutlinger Geschichtsverein - the need of the urban public for an independent museum building for the increasingly extensive collection on a local political issue. This wish was met in 1936 with the decision of the city administration to set up the former Königsbronner Hof as a museum. The official opening of the local history museum finally took place in July 1939. Due to the Second World War that began in the same year , the museum was closed again a few years later and only reopened in 1949, four years after the war, when Reutlingen was under French occupation . In 1960 Karl Keim took over the position of curator for the museum. Werner Ströbele took over from the management team in 1986. From 1989 the museum was redesigned, redesigned and renovated according to museum educational guidelines. Since 1996 it has been reopened with a correspondingly more modern structure.
Content distribution of the permanent exhibition
In today's local history museum, the history of the city of Reutlingen is presented with original exhibits since the late Middle Ages in six thematically separate areas.
- The tour begins on the ground floor with an exhibition on the medieval history of the city with a special focus on the church's history up to the Reformation , in which the Reutlingen Marienkirche was a main place of activity of the Swabian reformer Matthäus Alber .
- The history of the imperial city from the 16th to the 18th century is presented on the first floor. The importance and development of the twelve Reutlingen craft guilds are highlighted.
- On the second floor there is a literary department, in which, in addition to the wave of popular education in the 19th century, the world-famous Reutlingen economic theorist and railway pioneer Friedrich List , as well as the life and work of the writer Hermann Kurz and his daughter Isolde are discussed in particular.
- The top floor of the local history museum has the motto “19. Century - Departure into Modernity ”. Here, the visitor should be given a three-dimensional impression of city life at the end of the 19th century using a large-format round picture, compiled from historical city and street photographs, decorated with real everyday objects from the period .
- In the basement, where a city air raid shelter was set up during the Second World War , the development and consequences of the totalitarian dictatorship of National Socialism in Reutlingen are presented. This includes many exhibits from the 1995 special exhibition “ Reutlingen 1930 - 1950. National Socialism and the Post-War Era” presented in Reutlingen's Spitalhof - an exhibition that also attracted national attention due to the extensive processing of the communal history of National Socialism, and which is in an extensive catalog is documented in book form with explanatory topic chapters.
- The walled garden in the back yard of the local history museum is freely accessible to the public during the day via a separate entrance. This outdoor area connects a small park with a lapidarium , consisting of various sculptures, building fragments, historical tombs and other stone testimonies to the city's history from seven centuries.
Special exhibitions and series of events
In addition to the above-mentioned permanent exhibition, since the reopening after the renovation in 1996, the Reutlinger Heimatmuseum has held temporary special exhibitions at irregular intervals on specific topics, especially regional cultural and social history, but in some cases also on niche topics of supraregional importance or guest exhibitions such as the historical aspects of Reutlingen Sister cities presented. Since 1996/97, more than forty such special exhibitions have taken place in the rooms of the Heimatmuseum. The range of topics is very broad. The range of special exhibitions extends from the “Role of Reutlingen during the German Revolution of 1848/49 ” to “ Viticulture and Vineyard Culture in Reutlingen” to the “Cultural History of Underpants ”. One of the first special exhibitions that also attracted national attention was the 1997/98 exhibition “Reise nach Reutlingen 1862” with stereoscopic photographs by the Norwegian landscape photographer Knud Knudsen . During a further training course at the pomological institute on site in 1862, he photographed the first urban panoramas and street scenes of the city.
Under the motto “evening hour in the museum”, there are regular evening events once a month at which - often with reference to an anniversary or seasonal occasion - individual exhibits of the exhibition are specially presented and discussed. Also regularly on one Saturday per month, “play and fun afternoons” are offered for children from the age of four, in which this age group is to be brought closer to history through playful activities.
Branch offices
Part of the holdings of the Reutlinger Heimatmuseum is relocated to other exhibitions with their own location in the districts of Betzingen ( museum in the village ) and Gönningen ( seed trading museum ), where they supplement the districts' own collections. Both museums contain independent historical exhibits on the respective local and district history, some of which are independent of Reutlingen. Another branch is the industrial magazine in Reutlingen-Mitte .
Museum in the village of Betzingen
The Museum Im Dorf in the district of Betzingen is housed in a former agricultural homestead of the community, which, as a village-like suburb of Reutlingen, belonged to the then free imperial city until 1802. After Reutlingen was incorporated into Württemberg, Betzingen was an independent municipality for a century before it was finally incorporated into Reutlingen in 1907. The exhibition of the Museum Im Dorf essentially documents the change from the strongly rural tradition of the village to the industrialized suburb of Reutlingen, especially in the 19th century.
Gönningen Seed Trade Museum
In the Gönningen district, which was only incorporated into Reutlingen in 1971, about ten kilometers southwest of the city center, the local town hall building is home to the local seed trade museum, which processes the centuries-old trading tradition of the village and presents the story with various exhibits, compiled in a replica of a historic seed merchant packing room and the importance of the Europe-wide trade in seeds prepared and presented on site.
Industrial magazine
The Reutlingen industrial magazine, housed in the old assembly halls of the former Wandel company in Eberhardstraße, Reutlingen-Mitte, contains stocks on the city's industrial history , in particular historical machines and workpieces from the Reutlingen mechanical engineering and textile industry , which led to the industrialization of the city, and thus also theirs had shaped social change since around the middle of the 19th century. The exhibition can only be viewed to a limited extent. It merely forms the basic inventory of an independent Reutlingen industrial and economic museum that is still in the planning stage .
literature
- City of Reutlingen, Werner Ströbele (ed.): Culture conception Reutlingen (pp. 72–74, pp. 143/144); Reutlingen 2005, 224 pages, ISBN 3-933820-78-2 ( introduction page with link to the PDF file of the cultural conception )
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadt Reutlingen Heimatmuseum and Stadtarchiv (ed.): Friedrich List and his time: national economist, railway pioneer, politician, publicist, 1789–1846: Catalog and exhibition for the 200th birthday under the patronage of Prime Minister Dr.hc Lothar Späth Reutlingen 1989, ISBN 3-927228-19-2 , p. 238
- ^ Reutlingen City Administration / School, Culture and Sports Office / Local History Museum and City Archives (publisher): "Reutlingen 1930 - 1950. National Socialism and the Post-War Period"; Catalog and book with background descriptions for the 1995 exhibition of the same name, ISBN 3-927228-61-3
- ^ Special exhibition of the local history museum "Reutlingen - painted and drawn: Selected views" from April 3 to August 14, 2011
- ↑ Dominated by green (article in Reutlinger Generalanzeiger dated June 21, 2011 on the painting shown)
- ^ Freedom or Death - The Reutlinger Whitsun Assembly and the Revolution of 1848/49 ; Special exhibition of the Heimatmuseum in cooperation with the House of History Baden-Württemberg for the 150th anniversary of the revolution from September 20, 1998 to January 24, 1999
- ↑ "... there is no wine every year" - viticulture and winegrowing culture in Reutlingen , special exhibition of the Reutlingen local history museum from September 2, 2001 to November 4, 2001
- ↑ "Trousers are advisable". A short history of the underpants , special exhibition of the Reutlinger Heimatmuseum from July 22, 2007 to September 23, 2007
- ^ "Journey to Reutlingen 1862 - stereoscopic images by the Norwegian photographer Knud Knudsen" ; Special exhibition of the Reutlingen local history museum from December 13, 1997 to August 3, 1998
Web links
- Web presence of the Reutlingen local history museum as a subpage of the official homepage of the city of Reutlingen ; Indented in the following the branch offices:
- Short presentation on webmuseen.de
- Interview with Werner Ströbele, Head of the City of Reutlingen's Department of Culture and Curator of the Reutlingen Local History Museum , in the context of the special exhibition “Journey to Reutlingen 1862” with historical stereoscopic city photographs by the Norwegian photographer Knud Knudsen.
Coordinates: 48 ° 29 ′ 25 ″ N , 9 ° 12 ′ 42 ″ E