Transylvanian Museum
 Horneck Castle with entrance to the museum |
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| place | Gundelsheim , Baden-Wuerttemberg |
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| opening | 1968 |
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Sponsoring association Transylvanian Museum Gundelsheim eV
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-057714 |
The Transylvanian Museum in Horneck Castle in Gundelsheim (Württemberg) is dedicated to safeguarding, preserving and documenting the cultural assets of the German ethnic groups in Transylvania , which are presented in connection with the other ethnic groups represented in Transylvania.
In Drabenderhöhe there is the Siebenbürger Heimatstube .
history
At the beginning of the 1950s Lore Connerth-Seraphin collected Transylvanian folk objects in Munich. After moving to the old people's home in Gundelsheim, she donated the now extensive collection to the “Johann Honterus” charity . With this and other collections, he set up a home room in Schloss Horneck, the core cell of the current museum. In 1968 a combined museum, the local history museum of the city of Gundelsheim and the local history museum of the Transylvanian Saxons were opened in Horneck Castle. In 1991 the museum was given the status of a state museum . The permanent exhibition was comprehensively redesigned in 1996/97 and structured according to topics relating to Transylvanian art and cultural history.
On May 12, 2007, additional rooms with an area of 106 m² were opened on the first floor of the museum as part of an art exhibition. The rooms had previously been used by the retirement home. The extension was supported by the state of Baden-Württemberg, the federal government with € 200,000, the monument office, other helpers and sponsors and the Friends of the Transylvanian Museum Gundelsheim.
building
The museum is housed in Horneck Castle. The museum shares the building with the old people's home of the Transylvanian Saxons, the Transylvania Institute and the Transylvanian Library. The museum rooms are on the ground floor and first floor. The museum can be entered via an entrance that is independent of the other facilities. The ground floor is barrier-free. The upper floor can be reached via a narrow spiral staircase, further short stairs to the textile room and the graphics cabinet on the upper floor are to be used.
Support of the museum
The museum is run by the Transylvania Museum Gundelsheim e. V. It is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media based on a resolution of the German Bundestag. In 1979 the Friends of the Transylvanian Museum were founded. This went on in 2002 in the association for the promotion of the Transylvanian Museum Gundelsheim eV. An extraordinary general meeting in January 2006 resolved to change the statutes and register the association with the local court as a non-profit organization.
collection
- The country of Transylvania
This part of the collections shows basic geographic and historical information about Transylvania. The historical-geographical conditions with a focus on the Saxon settlement area in connection with the other ethnic groups represented in the Carpathian arch are shown.
- Urban culture
Furniture and furnishings from urban apartments are exhibited.
- Rural everyday life
Since the redesign in 2010, the room has provided a glimpse into the "living room" of a typical South Transylvanian farmhouse.
- Old home, new home
The area deals with the concept of home and the migration history of the Transylvanian Saxons after 1945.
- Life accompanied by church / sacred art
Sacred works of art from the late Middle Ages to the 19th century are on display in the "Church Accompanied Life / Sacred Art" room. At a media station, those interested can obtain information about the denominations and the fortified churches typical of Transylvania. This room also deals with the role of the church in everyday life.
- Childhood and school
This exhibition area, revised in 2006, is dedicated to the role of the child in Transylvanian culture. It also gives an insight into the Transylvanian-Saxon school system initiated by the reformer Johannes Honterus in the middle of the 16th century and its exemplary institution of student co-responsibility based on humanistic ideals, the so-called Coetus.
- Social order / rituals of the community
In 2006 the important room for the traditional way of life of the Transylvanian Saxons was established. The focus is on the neighborhood system. This was of central importance as a proto-democratic institution of social security, mutual help and the safeguarding of public order in the Transylvanian-Saxon towns; Brotherhoods and sororities, their rituals and their significance for the Transylvanian-Saxon community complete the space.
- Viewing depot
On the upper floor of the museum is the viewing depot (silver and goldsmith work, pewter, ceramics and glass):
Pieces from the large and well-known pottery centers: Draaser ceramics, Thorenburger ceramics, Keisder ceramics and ceramics from other pottery workshops are shown. A particularly large number of jugs (guild, brotherhood, neighborhood and wedding jugs) are on display. Tiles from tiled stoves and other ceramic utensils show the daily use of ceramics.
The collection of typical pewter foundries from Schäßburg , Kronstadt , Hermannstadt and Bistritz mainly shows wine jugs and lidded jugs from the guilds and a few objects with a sacred purpose. A large number of so-called cleft or base beakers are exhibited at goldsmith's work. Ornaments for traditional costumes such as patrician handles and belts as well as clasps are shown.
- Graphics cabinet
Representations of Transylvanian motifs from four centuries (17th to 20th centuries) by Transylvanian and non-Transylvanian artists are exhibited in the graphics cabinet.
- Textile room
The motto of the room is "Who counts the stitches - who counts the hours". In a large drawer cabinet, mostly hand-made textiles are exhibited, mainly as traditional costumes. Patterns of textile manufacturing techniques can be seen and touched on two other objects in the room. The differences between traditional weaving, embroidery and crochet techniques become clear to the visitor.
- Special exhibition rooms
The museum's special exhibition rooms are also located on the upper floor. Different exhibitions are shown here every year.
- painting
The museum has collections from Transylvanian-Saxon artists. It is in possession of the self-portrait of Clara Adelheid Soterius von Sachsenheim from 1853 as well as the portrait that Clara made of her husband Theodor Sockl in the same year. The museum also owns some paintings by Theodor Sockl himself. In 1998 the Transylvanian Museum held a retrospective exhibition by the painter Edith Soterius von Sachsenheim and bought 50 of her paintings, some of which are on permanent display in the museum. In 1999 the Gundelsheim collection was also exhibited in Munich in the Haus des Deutschen Ostens .
Museum shop
In the museum shop, books and illustrated books about Transylvania, ceramics and handicrafts from Transylvania can be bought in changing combinations.
Exhibitions
- November 16, 2013 to March 16, 2014: The composer Waldemar von Baußnern . Origin - life - work
- April 22nd to September 24th, 2017: "Let the word you should let go ..." - Landler deportation under the sign of the Gospel
literature
- Transylvanian Museum Gundelsheim. - Born 25th 2004-. - Gundelsheim: Transylvanian Museum, 2004.
- Claus Stephani: Treasures of Transylvanian pottery art. Book accompanying the exhibition of the Hans W. Gabányi collection (publications by the House of German East: Vol. 9), Kastner & Callwey: Forstinning, 1998. ISBN 3-927977-11-X
- Horneck Castle. Gundelsheim am Neckar, Heimathaus Transylvania, old people's home, museum, library . Ed .: Aid Association of the Transylvanian Saxons "Johannes Honterus" e. V. Stuttgart 1972 ( Heilbronn Museum Booklet. Booklet 3)
- Hans Meschendörfer: Horneck Castle and Gundelsheim. Heilbronn district, Württemberg . Schnell & Steiner, Munich 1983 ( Art Guide No. 1412)
- Michael Kroner : Cultural achievements of the Transylvanian Saxons . P. Hedwig, Erlangen 2000 ( History of the Transylvanian Saxons and their Economic-Cultural Achievements . Issue 8)
- Horst Klusch: Transylvanian ceramics . Kronstadt?
- Horst Klusch: Transylvanian pottery from three centuries . Kriterion-Verlag, Bucharest 1980
- Christiane Klein: The Transylvanian-Saxon ceramics of the 18th and 19th centuries as an expression of a specific will to create . Dissertation Munich 1981
- Claus Stephani: Pottery of the Germans in Romania. Bibliography. Ceramic Friends of Switzerland / Amis de la Céramique, New Year's gift, 1972. Zurich: Publishing house and series of publications by the Swiss National Museum
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lore Connerth Seraphin: Castle Horneck , Stuttgart 1972
- ↑ Siebenbürgische Zeitung, volume 8 of May 25, 2007, page 5
- ↑ Siebenbürgische Zeitung, volume 19 of November 30, 2002, page 5
- ↑ Siebenbürgische Zeitung, volume 9 of May 31, 2006, pages 1 and 5
- ↑ Dr Julius Bieltz: Clara Adelheid Soterius von Sachsenheim . SoteriusvonSachsenheim.com. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
- ^ Marius Tataru: Edith Jeanette Soterius von Sachsenheim . SoteriusvonSachsenheim.com. Retrieved June 18, 2013.
Coordinates: 49 ° 17 '12.3 " N , 9 ° 9' 23.2" E