Rhön Museum

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Exterior view, Rhön Museum, Fladungen

The Rhön Museum is a regional museum in Fladungen ( Rhön-Grabfeld district , Bavaria ).

history

The regional museum, housed in the historic office building (1628), can look back on around one hundred years of history. It owes its establishment in 1921 to the district official Alfred Jacob (1874–1951), who postulated at the opening: “The purpose of the institute is not only to provide a picture of the history and economic development of the district […], but to record it the vast area of ​​the entire Rhön region in general ”(opening speech, Rhön Museum). The restorer Franz Wald and his son Ludwig Wald brought together a large part of the collection.

In 1923, the Rhön-Museum e. V., which from then on acted as the carrier. In 2015 the Rhön Museum was transformed into a joint municipal enterprise (gKU) of the city of Fladungen and the district of Rhön-Grabfeld (sponsor).

Due to renovation work and a content reorientation, the museum will be closed until 2021, with the exception of occasional special events.

Collections

Today's collections include around 6000 cultural and natural history objects, including: furniture, ceramics, paintings, graphics, photography, maps, small carvings, devotional objects , prehistoric and early historical finds as well as animal and plant preparations.

Art and cultural history

Regional carvings are a focus, including furniture, consumer goods, carved figures and the well-known "Rhöner masks".

The extensive collection of the artist Anton Rausch (1882–1938, painter, graphic artist, "Madonna painter"), the photographic collection of Hermann Eckert (1873–1964, Eisenacher Haus , Rhönklub ), and paintings by the painter Julius von Kreyfelt (1863 –1947, Malerdorf Kleinsassen ) and Pedro Ernst Schmiegelow (1863–1943).

Natural history

The natural history collection has animal and plant preparations from the Rhön, including the well-known herbarium by Otto Arnold (recently edited by the Senckenberg Research Institute ).

Special and changing exhibitions

The Rhön Museum has a special and temporary exhibition area of ​​approx. 240 m².

Library

A reference library is attached to the Rhön Museum, the holdings of which were built up in the 1920s.

literature

(in chronological order)

  • Franz Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein: The Rhön Museum in Fladungen. (= The Bavarian Local Museums. Volume V). Beck, Munich 1970, DNB 751011967 .
  • Jolanthe Härder: Structure and problems of the Rhön Museum Fladungen. 1974, OCLC 633949293 .
  • Hannelore Kirchner: Inventory and documentation of farm equipment in the Rhön Museum. 1976, OCLC 633976182 .
  • Klemens Mörmann (ed.): The German museum guide in color. Museums and collections in the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin. Krüger, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-8105-1205-2 , pp. 318-319.
  • Georg Trost: Fladungen - The medieval city with its Rhön Museum. City of Fladungen, Fladungen 1981, OCLC 614007793 .
  • Georg Dehio , Tilmann Breuer: Handbook of German art monuments . Bavaria I: Franconia - The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia. 2nd, revised and supplemented edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03051-4 , p. 349.
  • Wolf-Dieter Raftopoulo: Rhön and Grabfeld culture guides. A complete documentation of the old cultural landscapes in terms of art and cultural history. RMd Verlag, Gerbrunn 2017, ISBN 978-3-9818603-7-5 , p. 104.
  • Eva-Maria König: Rhön Museum in Fladungen. In: ZeitenRaum - museum magazine for Bavaria. (= Special publication museums in the district of Lower Franconia ). Verlag Kendl + Weissbach Publications, Würzburg 2018, p. 42.

Web links

Commons : Rhönmuseum  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eva-Maria Wagner: Winding streets, humpback places . In: Die Rhön (= Merian , vol. 17 (1964), issue 4), pp. 19–24, here p. 24.
  2. ↑ New conception and reopening. In: Rhoenmuseum.de. Retrieved December 21, 2019 .
  3. ^ Project "Making available the documents from Rhön and Vogelsberg". In: Senckenberg.de. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .