Maritime Museum Flensburg

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Maritime Museum
Maritime Museum Flensburg July 2018.jpg
The shipping museum in the former customs packing house (2018)
Data
place Flensburg
Art
architect Building inspector Meyer
opening 1984
operator
City of Flensburg
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-245916

The Shipping Museum Flensburg is a branch of the Municipal Museum founded in 1979, which was inaugurated in 1984 in the former customs packing house on the Schiffbrücke as a highlight of the 700th anniversary of the city; it offers an overview of the seafaring tradition of Flensburg on the city's history .

history

The shipping museum in the former customs packing house (2007)

The former customs packing house was built in 1842/43 according to designs by the royal Danish building inspector Meyer. Until it ceased to function as a bonded warehouse in 1972, it was used for the storage of bonded goods by Flensburg merchants, with rum being one of the main products. The state of Schleswig-Holstein handed it over to the city of Flensburg in 1979, which took it over for a museum on the city's maritime history . It thus became a branch of the Municipal Museum founded in 1876, for the 100th anniversary of which it was decided to establish the Maritime Museum.

1980–1983 the listed building was largely restored historically, made accessible for the disabled and presented to the public in 1984. In March 2012 the Maritime Museum was reopened after a two-year complete renovation and redesign of the exhibition. In addition to the customs packing house, the exhibition now also occupies the customs office yard ( West India trip, Butterfahrt and Flensburg shipyard ) as well as the newly built exhibition building on the yard (changes in technology and everyday life on board in the last 100 years).

particularities

The house contains several storage floors, the lowest of which is supported by cast-iron columns that were built in Flensburg at the beginning of the iron industry. They were created in Georg Dittmann's first iron foundry in Flensburg, which was set up in 1842 in the Neustadt north of the Nordertore .

Collection of the Maritime Museum

Two-cylinder ship steam engine (around 1870)
Showcase with ship models

Historical ship portraits and models from the collection of the city museum from the 700-year history of Flensburg fill two floors with the museum's shipping-related collection items such as nautical instruments. There are also exhibits on Greenland voyages in the Maritime Museum . From the port of Flensburg in the 18th to the 19th century, corresponding trips took place. The tiles and folk art objects collected in the rooms of North Frisian seafarers also found a place in the Maritime Museum.

On the ground floor there is a large model of the city that illustrates Flensburg's heyday around 1600. The “Treasure of the Schiffergelag” shows essential relics of port management in the Middle Ages. A series of views of Flensburg shows the harbor activity in the 18th century. There are also memorabilia from the sailing ship building in Flensburg.

On the first floor, the history of sailing ship development, shipbuilding and trading houses in Flensburg is shown. The main focus is on the West India trade with cane sugar , rum, coffee and colored woods, including the development of Flensburg shipping companies.

Rum Museum

In the basement of the Maritime Museum, where the customs warehouse used to be, a special department of the Maritime Museum documents the history of rum in Flensburg. The department with the name Rum Museum , which was opened on May 16, 1993, initially housed exhibits on the history of rum imports and rum blending in Flensburg's rum trade. After extensive redesign, the Rum Museum reopened in June 2014, and visitors can now look forward to an 18-minute film showing the importance of rum for the city. Directed by Sönke Lassen, creative head from Forward Filmproduktion , a film team shot within six days at locations such as the Flensburg harbor , the Molfsee open-air museum , the Arnis Schifferkirche and the museum village Den Gamle By in Aarhus, Denmark .

Special exhibitions

The 2017 exhibition "Rum, sweat and tears" focused on the slavery practiced by Flensburg entrepreneurs and the exploitation of people in the German-Danish colonial areas, especially the Virgin Islands .

Rum & Sugar Mile

The Maritime Museum is also the starting point for the Rum & Sugar Mile, also known as the Sweet Mile. The idea for the mile came from Jutta Glüssing, the former director of the Maritime Museum. In 20 places, signs provide information about important places in the former rum trade in Flensburg. In 2014 the signage began to be renewed.

The Rum & Sugar Mile has the following stations:

  1. Customs packing house , i.e. the shipping museum itself
  2. Pot rum at the Nordertor
  3. Sonnberg rum or Hansen's brewery
  4. Zuckerhof (on Norderstrasse)
  5. Johannsen Rum
  6. HC Jensen's trading house
  7. Harries and Petersen Schmidt's sugar refinery
  8. Andreas Christiansen's trading house
  9. The great palace of Andreas Christiansen
  10. City house of the Christiansen family
  11. Sugar refiner ginger
  12. Courtyard of the West India merchant Petersen Schmidt
  13. Bommerlunder building by Herm G. Dethleffsen
  14. Braasch Rum in the Rote Straße
  15. Sugar refiner
  16. Petersen Schmidt's merchant yard
  17. Successor building of the Indigo farm in which a branch of C&A is located. Hansen Rum used to be in the Indigo Farm .
  18. Pott rum in the Johannisviertel
  19. Margarethenhof (was formerly also called Zuckerhof)
  20. Matz rum

Kapitänsweg

Markings of the Kapitänsweg at Flensburg Harbor

The Kapitänsweg is another discovery route that starts at the Maritime Museum. With the Kapitänsweg you follow the typical footsteps of a captain from the 17th century. The route leads around the port of Flensburg and through downtown Flensburg . Carved stone markings with a steering wheel show the way. 14 information boards provide explanations of the various structures in German and Danish. There is also an introductory fee-based information brochure at the Maritime Museum. Stations on the way are:

  1. Customs packing house
  2. Museum harbor
  3. Kompagnietor
  4. Ship landing place
  5. Hafenspitze
  6. Fishing port
  7. Ballast bridge or shipyard office
  8. Pilkentafel
  9. Helmsman's walk in the captain's quarter
  10. West India reservoir
  11. Reepschlägerbahn
  12. Holy Spirit Church
  13. Marienkirche ,
  14. Norderstrasse 40-44

Further museum preparation of the port of Flensburg

See also

literature

  • Shipping Museum Flensburg (Hrsg.): Flensburg shipping museum picture guide. Flensburg 1985 (German and Danish)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg! , Flensburg 2009, article: Rum Museum
  2. ↑ Modernization: Flensburg has a rum museum again. In: Flensburger Tageblatt . June 25, 2014, accessed July 9, 2016 .
  3. ^ City of Flensburg: Colonial Heritage / Flensburg. Retrieved June 12, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : Schifffahrtsmuseum Flensburg: Flensburg's dark side: rum, sweat and tears , from: June 10th, 2017 and Flensburger Tageblatt: Schifffahrtsmuseum Flensburg: “Time to open up to history” , from: June 12th 2017; Accessed on: June 12, 2017
  5. ^ Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg! , Flensburg 2009, article: Sweet Mile
  6. ↑ http://www.shz.de/lokales/flensburger-tageblatt/der-kapitaensweg-in-neuem-gewand-id7823296.html
  7. ↑ Rum & Zucker Meile, leaflet (PDF), accessed on: December 23
  8. ↑ http://www.marschundfoerde.de/artikel/kapitaensweg.html
  9. ^ Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg! , Flensburg 2009, article: Kapitänsweg
  10. ↑ http://www.flensburg.de/bildung-kultur/schifffahrtsmuseum/schiffahrtsmuseum-kapitaensweg/index.php

Web links

Commons : Schifffahrtsmuseum Flensburg  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 54 ° 47 ′ 35 "  N , 9 ° 25 ′ 59.2"  E