City and Regional Museum Perleberg
The Perleberg City and Regional Museum was opened in 1905 and focuses on the Perleberg city history , prehistory and early history and rural life. Since 1930 it has been located in the listed building Mönchort 7 near the shoe market and was later extended to the adjacent buildings Mönchort 8 to 11.
history
After the royal grave of Seddin was discovered in 1899 and an Iron Age burial ground with urns and bronze additions was found during the construction of barracks in Kurmärker Straße in 1903, an antiquities deputation was brought into being on October 19, 1905, with the aim of “patriotic antiquities” Perleberg and the Prignitz to collect, preserve and present to the public. This included the master carpenter and councilor Max Viereck (chairman), printing shop owner and councilor Franz Grunick (deputy chairman), senior teacher and city councilor Erich Fritze (clerk and treasurer) and Wilhelm Ratig (clerk). The 37 exhibits were in a cupboard in the anteroom of what is now the small conference room in the town hall. The first meeting of that deputation on November 13, 1905 is considered the museum's founding date.
In 1908 the museum moved to today's wedding hall due to growing holdings. On September 27th it was opened as the “Municipal Museum of Antiquities” and already one year later it had 323 objects. In 1910 Perleberg joined the Association of Museums for Prehistoric State Research, which was founded in Berlin that same year. The Antiquities Deputation ended its work for the time of the First World War. The museum was still open to the public.
After the premises of the large collection were no longer sufficient, in 1922 the magistrate made four rooms available to the museum in what is now the school on Stepenitz (then a lyceum). Archaeological finds and depictions of the city (so-called “Ratigzimmer”), handicraft tools (“Guild room”), a collection of natural objects and Prignitz sacred art were exhibited.
In 1930, the museum moved to the Mönchort 7 building because the previous location was to be expanded into an upper lyceum. On June 26, 1931, the museum opened with 2943 exhibits in seven rooms on two floors and entry was now subject to a charge. In 1934, in addition to the city, the district of Westprignitz also became the sponsor of the "City and District Museum Westprignitz in Perleberg".
In 1939 the museum bought the estate of Max Zeisig from Perleberger , which consisted of thousands of photo plates, paintings, books, furniture, etc. In 1944 some of the holdings were placed in the warehouse opposite the museum and the cellar was used to protect against air raids.
One year after the end of the Second World War, which the Perleberg Museum had survived almost unscathed, the museum reopened on order No. 85 of the Soviet military administration . With a directive of the Allied Military Government , firearms, cutting weapons and stabbing weapons as well as parts of the library were removed from the museum on October 1st because they were nationalist monuments.
In 1958, the Mönchort 9 building was also acquired, in which two exhibition rooms for wood and metal restoration were opened. A year later, the collection comprised 7,515 objects. In 1962, the Perlebergers received the folklore, prehistoric and early historical holdings of the Wittenberg Museum, which was to become a workers' and industrial museum. In 1974/75 a renovation took place so that 18 instead of the previous 12 rooms were available. In 1986, the museum acquired Johannes Dittmer's former colonial and delicatessen store from Wittenberger Strasse 2 for the sum of 10,000 marks and has been exhibiting it since 1988. In 1989 the museum owned over 30,000 objects, including 10,000 photo negatives.
Porcelain and militaria were stolen in a break-in in 1991 . The police captured the perpetrators and their loot in Friesland. The Schuhmarkt 1 building, which was renovated for the museum for the 750th anniversary in 1989, has been used for exhibitions since 1991.
In 2008, construction workers discovered a medieval well 3.5 meters deep and around two meters wide in front of the museum building while excavating. This was reconstructed in the same year. Between 2010 and 2012 the premises were redesigned and made barrier-free. Since its inception, the museum has been involved in excavations and in particular in rescue excavations in order to document and preserve finds. The city and regional museum has been taking part in the Perleberg Museum Night since 2008.
building
In 1930/31 the building at Mönchort 7 was converted for the museum, as it had to move out of the school on the Stepenitz (formerly the Lyceum). This house was previously used as a girls' secondary school, which Lotte Lehmann also attended, and then as an agricultural school. The house at Mönchort 7 and two items in the museum's collection are under monument protection.
Stocks
The museum's holdings mainly include archaeological evidence from the Prignitz, which goes back to prehistory and early history. In 1903, a burial ground with 14 urns from around the 5th century BC was found during construction work on Kurmärker Straße. In 1937 the museum received the hack silver find from Düpow , which was dated to around 1000. It also has u. a. Documents on the Perleberg opera singer Lotte Lehmann and a colonial and delicatessen store from 1896. In the early phase, the inventory consisted in particular of the estates of Wilhelm Ratig and Max Zeisig.
In the courtyard there are old tombstones, the spire of the St. Jacobi Church and the portal of the former Annenkloster.
The city sold the finds from the royal grave of Seddin in 1899 for 100 Reichsmarks to the Märkisches Museum in Berlin . Despite several efforts to get them back, the Perleberg Museum only has reconstructions.
Memorial picture of the Hasse family (1687)
Portal of the former Annenkloster
Seal with coat of arms of the city
Former tower top of St. Jacobi Church in Perleberg
Library
The library developed in the early days of the museum mainly through donations and / or bequests. These include, above all, holdings from Wilhelm Ratig and Max Zeisig. In 1964 or 1973 the Retzin manor library was transferred to the museum, which comprised 1,600 volumes and was owned by the noble gentlemen Gans zu Putlitz from the 18th and 19th centuries. Century. The holdings of the Realgymnasium and the Lyceum as well as the Masonic Lodge and the Horticultural Association were also taken over.
Most of the museum library dates from the 19th century and is written in German. A number of books (especially from the manor library) have not yet been categorized. The inventory catalog includes 1,352 titles, only two of which are from the 16th century.
The topics are broad. The literature from the 20th century mostly deals with local history. A number of local newspapers dating back to the 19th century have been preserved.
There are also over 13,900 image documents.
Exhibitions
In the period after 1945 there were many special exhibitions in the museum that were mainly socialist / communist during the GDR era. Current permanent exhibitions are “Archeology of Prignitz”, “Perleberg City History”, “Prominent Personalities” and “Rural Folklore”. In addition, special exhibitions are shown regularly. From May 22 to June 19, 2016, the topic “In the fog of forgetting? Disappeared Perleberg inns and excursion restaurants. A photographic documentation ”is presented.
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literature
- Museum Perleberg 1905–1995. Chronicle . Museum Perleberg, Lenzen 1995.
- Museums in Brandenburg . Brandenburg State Museum Association V., Leipzig 2009, p. 158 f.
Web links
- Official website
- City and Regional Museum Perleberg . Stadt-Perleberg.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum Perleberg 1905–1995. Chronicle . Museum Perleberg, Lenzen 1995, p. 4 .
- ↑ Doris Ritzka: funding for wells . In: The Prignitzer . June 20, 2008, ISSN 0232-1149 , p. 14 .
- ↑ To discover the history of the Prignitz in Perleberg . Ostdeutsche Sparkassenstiftung; Retrieved June 22, 2013
- ↑ a b Bernhard Fabian: District Home Museum (Perleberg) . In: Handbook of the historical book inventory in Germany .
- ^ Museum Perleberg 1905–1995. Chronicle . Museum Perleberg, Lenzen 1995, p. 22 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 34.5 ″ N , 11 ° 51 ′ 38.2 ″ E