Rhenish Fire Brigade Museum

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Rhenish Fire Brigade Museum
Data
place Erkelenz - Lövenich, Germany
Art
opening May 28, 1994
operator
Rheinisches Feuerwehrmuseum Lövenich eV
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-296013
Fire Brigade Museum on the main street
Vehicles in the fire department museum

The Rhenish Fire Brigade Museum in the Erkelenz district of Lövenich was opened on May 28, 1994 in the village center, Hauptstrasse 23. The municipal museum on the subject of fire services emerged from the private collection of Peter Höpgens and is now operated by the Rheinisches Feuerwehrmuseum Lövenich eV association. The museum complex includes a former residential building, which is now a listed building, and the hall of a former repair shop of an agricultural machinery dealer , connected by an inner courtyard . In addition to the permanent exhibition , changing exhibitions are regularly presented in a shop window .

Exhibits

The museum has around 4000 exhibits , 2500 of which are accessible to visitors, the rest are in the depot . The oldest pieces date from the 15th century . Extinguishing buckets made of linen, leather or wood are shown. 21 fire engines from the years 1930 to 1965 and nine manual pressure syringes from the 17th to 20th centuries are in the museum. Extinguishing equipment and props, turntable ladders , a collection of uniforms and 450 helmets from different countries are presented on an area of ​​1500 m².

Offers for children

There is a lot of leeway . Children can put on firefighter uniforms and play in a large wooden fire truck. Children's birthdays can take place. In 1998 the fire brigade museum was awarded the "child-friendly" certificate.

Events

Route against oblivion

The museum is a stop on the Erkelenz route against oblivion . A plaque commemorates the fact that the volunteer fire brigades were brought into line during the Nazi dictatorship . The fire chief from Katzem Josef Vaehsen had to give up his office in October 1933. In Venrath , the French prisoner of war Leon Serres was killed while firefighting on August 31, 1943.

literature

  • Willi Hintzen: The fire brigade museum in Lövenich is also the history of the fire brigade. In: From the history of the Erkelenzer Land. (= Writings of the Heimatverein der Erkelenzer Lande eV, No. 9). Erkelenz 1989, DNB 900354739 , pp. 257-263.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ rp-online.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 55.5 ″  N , 6 ° 19 ′ 22.9 ″  E