School Museum North Württemberg
The North Württemberg School Museum is an institution of the city of Kornwestheim . In the historical ambience of a schoolhouse that is over a hundred years old, it provides an overview of the development of the Württemberg elementary school from the Reformation era to the present day.
history
The North Württemberg School Museum was founded as the second school museum in Baden-Württemberg on October 3, 1984 with a small presentation by Willy Haiges, the retired principal of the Schiller School. The founding of the museum was preceded by an anniversary exhibition on the subject of "Schools in the past" on the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of Kornwestheim in 1981. The museum is housed in the listed west wing of the Schillerschule, which was inaugurated in 1908, on Schillerstraße. In 1985 the Förderverein Schulmuseum eV was founded, the chairman of which, Gerhard Weiß, also retired rector, took over the management of the school museum after Haiges' death in 1990. In the same year the museum was expanded to almost 400 square meters of exhibition space and was named "School Museum North Württemberg".
Since 1992 the school museum has been professionally supervised by Irmgard Sedler, who also took over the management in 2000. Since 1992 the focus has been on the regional school history, which is made tangible in its cultural-historical and childhood-historical contexts on the object and is questioned in terms of its contemporary meaningfulness.
The school museum has been a partner of educational universities and cultural institutions in Germany and abroad as well as the address for scientific inquiries and projects since the 1990s. In part, it works together with other museums, including the Museum Schloss Neu-Augustusburg in the twin town of Weißenfels , for example in 2002 for the exhibition “In the spirit of the highest aspiration - writers in Weißenfels”.
The North Wuerttemberg School Museum sees itself as an institution for preserving, teaching, evaluating and showing, in which scientific work has its place as well as memory and entertainment. There are regular tours for school classes and groups.
collection
The museum has a collection of over 18,000 exhibits with a focus on primers and reading books, picture books, school murals, school archives, real objects and scientific equipment.
The three content approaches - region, cultural history and childhood - still determine the focus of the collecting activity today: special collections on the areas of learning to read (over 1000 German-language first reading works from four centuries), "realities" and science lessons in school (over 400 scientific devices with a associated special library), a collection of historical writing implements donated by the newspaper publisher Horst Reichert, children's world in picture books, education for saving and responsibility for the environment (almost 800 money boxes from three centuries) make up the core of the collections, along with a stock of around 10,000 textbooks and a library . Four collection depots and long-term conservation and inventory measures serve to preserve it.
Permanent exhibition
Over 1000 exemplarily selected exhibits in the permanent exhibition give an insight into everyday school life in past centuries: They illustrate the history of the school system in Württemberg up to 1945, the change in teaching, the social position of schools and teachers in the countryside. They document the different educational pathways of girls and boys in traditional village society. They demonstrate the development of writing and writing implements (goose quill, slate and stylus) and report on school “discipline and order” (punishment donkey). In the old school hall, the visitor is involved in a school lesson from yesteryear.
Room 1: History of school education in Württemberg
- 15./16. Century: Educational traditions from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance: convent school, municipal Latin school, university
- 16th Century: Education for the People in the Age of Reformation
- 17th century: Between "method" and enthusiasm: didactics and pietism
- 18th century: Reform efforts in the arc of tension between Pietism and Enlightenment
- First half of the 19th century: New school subjects and old habits - half-hearted reforms
- 2nd half of the 19th century: Professionalization of the school system in the context of national bourgeois emancipation
- 1st half of the 20th century: Half a century of breaks and new beginnings
Room 2: historical classroom
Room 3: From schoolmaster to teacher
- The 19th century and the social position of the teacher
- Samuel Mayer: Schoolmaster in Kornwestheim from 1829 to 1870
- Franz Xaver Staudenmayer: Schoolmaster in Rechberghausen from 180 (?) To 1846
Rooms 4 and 5 are currently being redesigned.
Room 6: Natural Sciences
Special exhibitions
Regular special exhibitions on the most diverse aspects of childhood and school complement the museum's offerings and challenge visitors to constantly new interpretations and up-to-date appropriations of the topics presented in new contexts. As part of these special exhibitions, more recent exhibits from more recent times after 1945 are shown.
A selection of special exhibitions:
- 1991: "Science lessons then and now"
- 1992: "Reading, writing, arithmetic"
- 1994/95: “About the golden bridge. The world of the child as reflected in the school primer "
- 1995: The development of our typeface
- 1997/98: "Who does not honor the penny"
- 1998: "Schultüte and Zuckerbaum"
- 1998/99: "Education has (not) a gender"
- 2003: “Karl Mäser. Departure into a new world "
- 2003/04: "Handicraft and School"
- 2009: “Practice thrift! School savings and money boxes "
See also
Publications
- Irmgard Sedler (Hrsg.): School Museum North Württemberg Room I: History of School Education in Württemberg. Booklet accompanying the permanent exhibition . Kornwestheim 2010.
- Irmgard Sedler, Ingrid Zein: The Schillerschule and its building history . In: Kornwestheimer Geschichtsblätter , Vol. 13 (2003), pp. 13-16.
- Irmgard Sedler: Whoever does not honor the penny ... School savings and money boxes , catalog for the traveling exhibition of the same name in Kornwestheim from December 4, 1997 to April 26, 1998 and in Weißenfels from May 30 to July 26, 1998, ed. from the North Württemberg School Museum , town of Kornwestheim, Kornwestheim 1998, ISBN 3-922545-22-X ; contents
Web links
- School Museum North Württemberg on the website kornwestheim.de
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 1.7 ″ N , 9 ° 11 ′ 18 ″ E