Maritime Museum of the Oldenburg Lower Weser
The Shipping Museum of the Oldenburg Lower Weser (short name Schiffahrtsmuseum Unterweser or Schiffahrtsmuseum Brake) is a museum on the history of Oldenburg shipping in Brake with a branch in the former Villa Steenken in Elsfleth . The focus of the exhibitions is on the maritime history of the 19th and early 20th centuries in the Grand Duchy and later Free State of Oldenburg . Particular attention is paid to the care of the memory of Rear Admiral Karl Rudolf Brommy , the chief of the Imperial Fleet , which was temporarily stationed in Brake. The museum is run by the sponsoring association of the same name and is a member of the Wesermarsch Museums .
history
As early as 1929, the establishment of a local history museum was planned in Brake, which should have a department for shipping history. However, concrete considerations for a shipping museum did not arise until 1955 on the occasion of the imminent 100th anniversary of the city's founding in 1856. At the same time, Elsfleth was also considering setting up a shipping museum. When the realization of the museum in Brake became apparent, Elsfleth decided not to found his own museum in order to avoid a fragmentation of the culture of remembrance on the Oldenburg lower Weser side.
The specific planning for the museum was carried out by the specially founded museum association on the initiative of Friedrich Carstens, who also became the first director of the museum. The originally planned name Oldenburgisches Schiffahrtsmuseum in Brake was not adopted due to an intervention by the government of the then administrative district of Oldenburg.
The inauguration ceremony for the museum took place on April 24, 1960 in the gym on Haasenstrasse; then the museum was opened in the Braker Telegraphen. In the first ten years, work in the museum rested largely on the shoulders of the museum caretaker and caretaker Friedrich Heidemann, who also organized tours and was a recognized builder of ships in bottles .
At the beginning of the 1990s, a structural change in the character of the museum was initiated from a local museum to a scientific institution. In 2009 the sponsoring association decided to rename the museum to the Maritime Museum of the Oldenburg Lower Weser . Informally, the museum was and is briefly referred to as the Brake Maritime Museum .
Museum director
- Friedrich Carstens (1960–1975, honorary)
- Carl Hermann Reinecke (1975–1987, honorary)
- Jürgen Hoops (1988–1993, honorary)
- Johannes Lachs (1993/94, full-time)
- Klaus Müller (1994–2002, honorary)
- Martina Röben (2002/03, full-time)
- Carsten Jöhnk (2004–2009, full-time)
- Christine Keitsch (since 2009, full-time)
Premises and exhibitions
The Telegraph in Brake
In the telegraph set up by Otto Lasius in 1846 at quay 8, a significant part of the permanent exhibition has been located since the museum was founded in 1960. From May 2013 to September 2014, the building was closed due to extensive listed renovation work and a revision of the permanent exhibition. The main building of the museum has been open again since September 27, 2014.
In the outer area at the Stadtkaje there is a replica of a historic ship's mast, a stick anchor of the Danish ship of the line Christian VIII, which was sunk off Eckernförde in 1849 ( loan from the German Museum in Munich ) and a cannon of the monument to Duke Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel on loan from the city of Elsfleth .
Borgstede & Becker house in Brake
The Borgstede & Becker house, Breite Straße 9, was inaugurated on March 15, 1985 in the presence of Lower Saxony's Prime Minister Ernst Albrecht .
On the ground floor there is a ship outfitter shop from around 1910 to around 1930, an event room with a stage , the so-called East Frisian tile room from 1791, a special exhibition room and an exhibition on the history of trade.
On the first floor there are exhibition areas on steam shipping, the Reichsflotte , Rear Admiral Karl Rudolf Brommy , school shipping, maritime administration negotiations and nautical instruments, pilotage and cartography . There are also measuring instruments and figureheads here.
On the 2nd floor there are exhibition areas on shipyards (e.g. a diorama from the Braker Oltmanns shipyard around 1850), half-models, sailmakers , block makers, ship smiths , reep beater and riggers, as well as museum education and the study of Braker writer Georg von der Vring ( 1889–1968, Hauptwerk Soldat Suhren ).
The museum also includes the packing house built in 1835, Dr. Fritz-Carstens-Weg 1, in which the administration , the archive , the library , a magazine and the workshop have been located since 2001 .
House Elsfleth
The House Elsfleth department was opened on March 14, 2010 and is located in the former Villa Steenken at Weserstraße 14 in Elsfleth , which was made available to the museum by the Elsfleth shipowner Horst Werner Janssen .
Subject areas are the maritime tradition of the city of Elsfleth, maritime associations, shipowners in the region, the Weser shipping route , fishing (including the history of the Elsfleth herring fishing fleet), nautical training at the Elsfleth Maritime School, women on board, chronometers from the Wempe Chronometerwerke company founded in Elsfleth in 1878 , Reconstruction of a ship bridge as well as shipbuilding and shipyards in the region.
Library and archive
The museum has its own library with currently 5,412 volumes. The in-house archive has 35 system groups, in which 2,146 documents were listed by the end of April 2012.
Series of publications
So far, the following have appeared in the museum's series of publications:
- Volume 1: Friedrich-Wilhelm Brandt: Ferries of the Unterweser , Oldenburg 1993.
- Volume 2: Jürgen Meyer (Ed.): Oldenburger Schiffahrtschronik. Contributions to the maritime history of Brake and Elsfleth 1870-1930 , Oldenburg 1996.
- Volume 3: Manfred Sell (Ed.): Everything in the box. Ships between Gypsum and Glass , Oldenburg 1996 (volume accompanying the special exhibition).
- Volume 4: Albrecht Eckhardt / Detlev P. Gross: Brommy and Brake , Oldenburg 1998.
- Volume 5: Monika and Ingo Meyer-Haßfurther: Shoot Stars. Nautische Instrumente 1680-1910 , Oldenburg 1998 (volume accompanying the exhibition).
- Volume 6: Carsten Jöhnk: A Saxon conquers the oceans. Admiral Brommy on his 200th birthday, Oldenburg 2004.
- Volume 7: Erwin Wagner: Carl Rudolph Brommy (1804-1860) as a naval officer in Greece (1827-1849). Oldenburg 2009.
- Volume 8: Albrecht Eckhardt: The Maritime Museum of the Oldenburg Lower Weser 1960–2010.
- Volume 9: Heinz D. Janssen: Tools of the wooden boat builders and ship carpenters. Bremen 2013.
literature
- Friedrich Carstens: Romantic seafaring. Treasures from a North German Maritime Museum , Oldenburg / Hamburg undated [1968].
- Stefan Hartmann: Studies on Oldenburg shipping in the middle of the 19th century. In: Hansische Geschichtsblätter , 94th year, 1976, pp. 38-80.
- Peter-Michael Pawlik: From the Weser into the world. Volume II: The history of the sailing ships from Weser and Hunte and their shipyards from 1790 to 1926. Elsfleth - Brake - Oldenburg , Hauschild Verlag , Bremen 2003, ISBN 3897571501 .
- Albrecht Eckhardt: The Maritime Museum of the Oldenburg Lower Weser 1960-2010 , Isensee, Oldenburg 2010, ISBN 3899957067 .
- Frank Ganseuer: The "Shipping Museum of the Oldenburg Lower Weser" , in: Ship & Time. Panorama maritim , No. 118/2020, pp. 34–41.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Biography of Lasius, Ernst Friedrich Otto. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 412-413 ( online ).
Coordinates: 53 ° 19 ′ 34.9 ″ N , 8 ° 29 ′ 4.2 ″ E