Spreewald Museum
The Spreewaldmuseum is a museum in the Spreewald town of Lübbenau / Spreewald .
The museum is located in the so-called Torhaus or Archway House at Topfmarkt 12 and is dedicated to the history of the Spreewald region in exhibitions. Topics are the Slavic settlement of the area, the founding of the cities, the development of the Sorbian language , the medieval guild system, the history of Spreewald tourism, the school and church system, the development in the time of the GDR and regional art. The museum also includes the Spreewaldmuseum Lehde open-air museum in the Spreewald village of Lehde .
History of the museum
The museum was founded in 1899 in the building at Kirchplatz 6 in Lübbenau. One of the founders was the local history researcher Paul Fahlisch , who later also became director of the museum. From the 1950s, the museum was housed in the old chancellery in Lübbenau Castle. The holdings of the castle museum founded by the von Lynar family in the 1930s were added to the Spreewaldmuseum. In 1952 the enlarged Spreewald Museum already had 10,000 visitors. The open-air museum in Lehde was opened in 1957 on the initiative of Gerhard Krüger , who has been the museum director since 1956 . Krüger remained the museum director until 1987. The Rubisko Museum Association was founded on January 16, 1998, and sees itself as the successor to a museum association founded by Paul Fahlisch. The Spreewald Museum has been located at its current location in the gatehouse since 1999.
building
The gatehouse was built in 1850 as a three-story brick building at the western end of the old town. Even today, the archway in the building is the only western access to the old town of Lübbenau. Until 1843 there was still an inner-city river at the site, as it was typical for Lübbenau at the time and which still defines the Spreewald today. Initially the building was used as a town hall. From 1910 the Royal District Court Lübbenau was located in the building. It was also used as a prison. It has housed the museum since 1999.
The left lower jaw bone of a bowhead whale hangs in the archway . The bone dates from the 18th century and was a gift from the Hamburg merchant Morzan-Schimkönig to his native town Lübbenau.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 52 ′ 9.7 " N , 13 ° 57 ′ 55.3" E