Richard Brandt Museum of Local History

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Cavalier House
Old office jug

The Richard-Brandt-Heimatmuseum Wedemark is a local history museum in the district of Bissendorf in the Lower Saxony community of Wedemark .

history

The collection of the local history museum was started in 1953 by Richard Brandt, a teacher and local history researcher from Wennebostel , who collected a considerable part of the items exhibited today and laid the basis for further collections. In 1963 the collection was donated to the municipality of Wedemark.

Initially, the local history collection was still housed in the office building, later it moved to the Kavalierhaus . In 1999 extensive renovation work was carried out on the Kavalierhaus. Since then, the museum has been housed both in the Kavalierhaus and in the neighboring historic building of the former office jug.

location

The museum is located in the historic center of Bissendorf in the municipality of Wedemark. Both buildings are right next to the Amtshaus, the historic home of the bailiffs of the former Bissendorf bailiff .

Collections

The exhibition on the top floor of the former office jug (built in 1792, today the community library ) provides an overview from the last ice age to the working life of the rural population from the 18th century to the exhibits from the recent past. For example, soil cultivation, beekeeping , flax processing and other handicraft activities are shown. The village school and the model of a church are not missing either.

Another part of the exhibition are personalities with a special relationship to Wedemark such as the poet and writer Gottfried August Bürger , the painter and copper engraver Georg Heinrich Busse from Bennemühlen or the Low German writer Hinrich Braasch from Bissendorf.

On the ground floor of the Kavalierhaus (built in 1629), the former guest house of the magistrate, the living situation at the beginning of the 20th century is shown - with a coffee or grain roaster in the kitchen, the gramophone in the living room and the washing dishes in the bedroom.

On the upper floor there are some pictures by the Bissendorf painter couple Ursula and Peter Greve from Bissendorf-Wietze. Karl Montag's workshop offers an insight into the work of a violin maker . Karl Montag lived in Wennebostel-Wietze in the middle of the last century and created violins with a sonority that matched those of Stradivari and the Cremona School.

In addition, the exhibition “Fascination Watch World” by Reimer Timm and Manfred Hulacz is located in the Kavalierhaus. In addition to watchmaking tools , a variety of historical pocket watches , the way from the pocket watch to the wristwatch, as well as unusual grandfather clocks and special movements are shown.

The Sommers' extensive fossil collection is shown in another room . These include a wide variety of fossils from many areas of the world as well as inclusions in the Solnhofen limestone , in particular parts of the skeleton of a close relative of the ancient bird Archeopteryx .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard-Brandt Heimatmuseum Wedemark. Retrieved September 27, 2017 (German).
  2. ↑ a b Bissendorf Local History Museum. Retrieved September 27, 2017 (German).
  3. ^ Wedemark: Richard-Brandt-Heimatmuseum in Bissendorf | Wedemark municipality. (wedemark.de [accessed on September 27, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Museumsverband Niedersachsen & Bremen e. V .: Museum detail page. Retrieved September 27, 2017 (de-de).

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 23.5 "  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 22"  E