City Museum Güstrow
The City Museum Güstrow is located in the city of Güstrow , at Franz-Parr-Platz 10, in the immediate vicinity of Güstrow Castle and the Ernst-Barlach-Theater . It shows the history of the city of Güstrow from its founding in the High Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century.
History of the museum
In 1890, under the chairmanship of Mayor Otto Dahse (1839-1919), an art and antiquity association was founded, which endeavored to collect suitable exhibits for the planned museum. On April 30, 1892, the first museum was founded in the billiard room on the promenade on the wall. The first move took place in 1910 to a house on Domplatz 16. In 1923 the museum was closed and the exhibits were initially stored in Güstrow Castle. In the following year the reopening took place in the house Am Wall 2. For the first time a special exhibition was shown in addition to the permanent exhibition. In the last year of the war, 1945, the museum was cleared and the collections relocated. From 1948 the holdings were kept in the "House of Culture" on Annaplatz (today Goetheplatz) until they were stored in a baroque town house on Franz-Parr-Platz 7 in 1953. On August 28, 1958, the museum was able to reopen with a permanent exhibition on the city's history. In the following years, further tasks (maintenance of the district floor from 1955 to 1992, the Ernst Barlach memorial as a branch from 1955 to 1969) were organizationally integrated into the museum and developed into a regional research center. On June 24, 1978, a redesigned permanent city history exhibition was presented on the occasion of Güstrow's 750th anniversary. The last fundamental revision of the permanent exhibition resulted in a new opening on October 2, 2003 in the corner building at Franz-Parr-Platz 10.
tour
After having stepped through room 1, it is advisable to watch the ten-minute introductory film Güstrow and Europe on the first floor. Seven particularly important points in time are presented for Güstrow: the foundation of the cathedral in the 13th century, the beginning as a royal seat (from 1555), Wallenstein's entry into the castle in 1628 , the negotiations of 1712 ( Northern War ) with the participation of the Russian Tsar Peter the Great and August the Strong (Elector of Saxony and King of Poland) in Güstrow, the year 1800 for the Güstrow painter Georg Friedrich Kersting , in 1908 when Barlach is in Güstrow for the first time and has his permanent residence here from 1910, the visit of the Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt 1981 in Güstrow and the associated effects on GDR politics.
- Ground floor:
- Room 1: Paintings by the Expressionists Christian Rohlfs , Erich Heckel and Helmuth Macke .
- Room 2: The Princely House of Werle and Güstrow
- Room 3: Cathedral chapter and cathedral as a mission center
- Room 4: Güstrow in the Middle Ages
- Upper floor:
- Room 5: The transition from the Middle Ages to the modern age
- Room 6: Güstrow in the 16th and 17th centuries
- Room 7: Güstrow in the 18th century
- Room 8: Mecklenburg's center in the wars of liberation 1813/14
- Room 9: Georg Friedrich Kersting (1785–1847), painter, Lützower Jäger ( Apollo with the hours )
- Room 10: the classical cityscape of Güstrow
- Room 11: Art and culture of Güstrow in the 19th century
- Room 12: John Brinckman (1814–1870), Low German writer
- Room 13: Güstrow as a business location in the 19th century
- Room 14: Ernst Barlach (1870–1938) in Güstrow
- Room 15: Güstrow in the 20th century
- Room 16: Otto Vermehren (1861–1917)
literature
- Info flyer "Barlachstadt Güstrow - City Museum", published by GüstrowTourismus e. V.
Web links
- Literature about Stadtmuseum Güstrow in the state bibliography MV
- City Museum at www.guestrow.de
Coordinates: 53 ° 47 ′ 28 " N , 12 ° 10 ′ 34.2" E