Sweden Warehouse Museum
The Schwedenspeicher Museum , renamed Museum Schwedenspeicher since 2011 , has been a regional museum in the Hanseatic city of Stade in Lower Saxony since 1977 . The content deals with the archeology and history of the Elbe-Weser region in general and the city of Stade in particular.
The museum is located in a baroque brick building from the second half of the 17th century. It was built as a warehouse at the old Hanseatic port from the 11th century during the 67 years that the city belonged to Sweden . The warehouse was used by the Swedish garrison as a supply house. It is an important secular baroque monument in Northern Europe.
history
Stade became the headquarters of the Swedish administration when the duchies of Bremen and Verden fell to Sweden as war compensation at the end of the Thirty Years War in 1648 . Sweden wanted to develop Stade into a fortress. A warehouse was required to supply the troops and administration. Such a warehouse was built around 1660 on the site of St. George's Monastery, but it was demolished again because it did not meet the needs of the administration. In 1690 she bought three pieces of land at the old Hanseatic port from the Nikolaikirche. Until the great fire in 1659, there had been low residential buildings there.
The construction of the provision store began in 1692 with foundation work that was completed in 1694. Afterwards, construction was idle, presumably for financial reasons, but also due to a lack of building materials and workers that were needed for other building projects in the city.
A total of 8,000 Reichstaler were made available in 1699 and 1700, but construction was not continued until 1703 under the master builder Luder Seebeck and the Swedish steward Ketelson. The council carpenter Andreas Henne and the state mason Anton Dreyer directed the execution. The shell, for which materials were obtained from Hamburg, Friesland and Lüneburg, was completed in 1704. 176,326 bricks from the castle in Bremervörde, which was demolished after 1682, were used for the masonry . At the end of November 1705, the first floor with an office was also set up. The final invoice from the year of completion amounted to total construction costs of 16,354 Reichstalers.
The Swedish military administration only used the building for seven years to store grain. Swedish rule ended in 1712. The city and its buildings from the time the Swedes were built went to the Kingdom of Denmark. When Stade became part of the Electorate of Hanover in 1715 , the Hanoverian military used the warehouse for their own purposes.
In 1909 the warehouse became the property of the city of Stade. She leased it to freighter. With the decline of cargo shipping in the 1960s, it lost its function and threatened to deteriorate.
In the 1970s, the desire to use the building as a museum grew. It was extensively restored from 1975 onwards. In 1976 the district of Stade , the city of Stade and the history and local history association merged to form a sponsoring association for the museum. On March 15, 1977 Gerd Mettjes was appointed director of the museum.
The building was opened as a museum on November 30, 1977 with a special exhibition about the Vikings . The conception of the exhibitions was revised several times, most recently it was fundamentally revised in 2012 as part of an interior design.
Storage
The warehouse is a two-story brick building 41.23 meters long and 16.17 meters wide. The high hipped roof , which is covered with tiles , also has two floors and the attic.
On the western side of the building, the narrow side facing the fish market, is the main portal made of sandstone with a segmented arch. Above is a relief with a cartouche , which is marked with C XII , the monogram of the Swedish King Charles XII. , is provided. A royal crown is depicted above the cartridge. Another sandstone portal is on the north side, but since the renovation work in 2012 it has been partially covered by an external elevator. In the middle of the north and east sides of the roof there are large elevator bay windows.
The interior of the store, including the first attic, has three aisles, formed by two rows of studs that take the load of the ceiling beams.
museum
The ground floor of the museum is used for events and special exhibitions. It also shows a compressed representation of the city's history with exhibits from the Hanseatic harbor in Stad . They conserve 1000 years of city history and are one of the most important port find complexes in Europe. On the first floor there is a large exhibition on the Hanseatic era. Here u. a. the replica of the eagle from Lübeck shown on a scale of 1:50. The current state of Hanseatic research is presented using the example of the Hanseatic city of Stade.
On the second floor is an archaeological permanent exhibition with the clothes of the Iron Age bog body man from above Altendorf and the four Stader bronze wheels dating from the period around the 1000th Also significant are the Neolithic gold armring from Himmelpforten, the flint dagger from Wiepenkathen and the imperial inventories of the princely grave of Apensen and the warrior grave of Harsefeld. A special exhibit is the nine gram gold coin from Fredenbeck found at Fredenbeck in 2017 with the likeness of Emperor Constantine I , which was minted in Sisak in present-day Croatia in the years 342/343 . It is unique worldwide.
The museum administration and an event room are located on the third floor, and the museum library is on the floor above.
Stader bronze wheels , around 1000 BC Chr.
Flint dagger, found in Wiepenkathen, late Neolithic
Gold arming, location Himmelpforten, funnel cup culture
Gold coin from Fredenbeck , 342 AD
Awards
In 2012 the new exhibition guide received a red dot at the red dot design award in the communication design category.
In 2013 the museum received the museum award of the Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation endowed with 30,000 euros .
In 2015 the museum was awarded the museum seal of approval from the Museumsverband Niedersachsen und Bremen eV.
literature
- Jürgen Bohmbach and Viktor Rihsé: The Swedish store in Stade - from the provision house to the museum , Verlag Hansa-Druckerei Stelzer. Stade 1978
- Jürgen Bohmbach: From Kaufmannswik to the main focus - The development of Stade from the 8th to the 20th century , page 97, Stadt-Sparkasse Stade (ed.), Stade 1976
- Gerd Mettjes: Schwedenspeicher Museum, prehistory and early history, city history , booklet accompanying the exhibitions, Stade 1979
- Diethard Meyer: "Schwedenspeicher-Museum Stade; Middle Ages and Modern Times" inventory catalog I, Stade 1992
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kenzler, Herwig: “'Schwedenspeicher Museum' shines in new splendor”, in: Membership magazine of the Förderverein Deutsche Museumswerft eV , No. 26 (June 2011), p. 18
- ↑ Sensational find in the field: The Fredenbeck coin at ndr.de from June 21, 2019
- ↑ A globally unique find at Stade: 1,600-year-old gold coin now in the Schwedenspeicher , report from the Stade district dated June 21, 2019
- ↑ A travel guide for families and individualists , accessed on June 16, 2015
- ↑ Focus online regional (beta) Hanover museums from October 10, 2013: Schwedenspeicher Stade receives museum award , accessed on October 10, 2013
- ↑ Lower Saxony and Bremen Museum Quality Seals , accessed on June 16, 2015
Coordinates: 53 ° 36 ′ 14 " N , 9 ° 28 ′ 38" E