City Museum Halle

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City Museum Halle in the Christian-Wolff-Haus

The Stadtmuseum Halle is the city history museum of the city of Halle (Saale) . The headquarters are in the listed building ensemble of the Christian-Wolff-Haus, Grosse Märkerstraße 10, where the Enlightenment philosopher and university professor Christian Wolff (1679-1754) lived and worked from 1741 to 1754 . Branches of the city museum are located in the Oberburg Giebichenstein , in the Red Tower , in the Hausmannstürme of the Marktkirche Unser Lieben Frauen and in the Leipzig Tower .

History of the museum

The history of the Halle City Museum begins in 1954 with the founding of the Heimatmuseum in Christian-Wolff-Haus. From 1975 to 1990 it operated under the name “History Museum of the City of Halle”. On March 31, 1990, the name was changed to “Kulturhistorisches Museum Halle”.

In addition, on October 14, 1989 in the former Glaucha rifle house, Lerchenfeldstrasse 14, the “Museum for the History of the Revolutionary Labor Movement in the Halle District . Otto-Schlag-Haus “opened. However, the social events led to the immediate closure of the permanent exhibition. In 1991 the Museum for the History of the City of Halle was finally founded , which combined the two museums. In the years that followed, the Glaucha rifle house housed a permanent exhibition on the history of the city in addition to changing special exhibitions.

In 1994 the permanent exhibition on the 18th Century Hall in the Age of Enlightenment was opened in the Christian-Wolff-Haus . In 2005, the outdated permanent exhibition in the Glaucha rifle house was closed in order to build a contemporary city museum for Halle at the Große Märkerstraße 10 location. Today the depot of the city museum is located in Lerchenfeldstrasse .

The museum has been officially called Stadtmuseum Halle since 2009 . In 2011 the exhibition area was expanded to include the outbuilding, the former Gebauer - Schwetschke printing works , so that the two permanent exhibitions have been shown in this house since 2012/2013.

building

Christian Wolff House

Staircase of the Christian-Wolff-Haus

It is a massive Renaissance house with strikingly structured gables that was built in 1558 and shaped the square of Kleiner Berlin and was rebuilt in the Baroque era . Inside you will find a representative staircase, painted stucco ceilings and door frames . Nickel Hoffmann (around 1510 - 1592) , the most important architect of the Renaissance in Halle, is considered the master builder . The municipal fief book from 1608 gives complete information about the owners of the house until the middle of the 18th century. Christian Wolff acquired the property in 1741 and lived, worked and taught here until his death in 1754. The subsequent owners converted it into a printing and publishing house. From the end of the 19th century until it was used as a local history museum from March 21, 1954, the main house consisted of office, storage and living rooms.

Print shop building

Former printing and publishing house in the courtyard of the Christian-Wolff-Haus

From 1764 to 1945 the Christian-Wolff-Haus was also the seat of the Gebauer-Schwetschke printing and publishing house . The printer's building in the courtyard at Grosse Märkerstraße 10 was built in 1914/15 using an industrial construction method. After the company was nationalized in 1945, the building was still used as a printing shop until 1992.

Glaucha rifle house

Glaucha rifle house

In 1886 the architects Albert and Ernst Heinrich Giese built a community building with a shooting range, bowling alley and restaurant on Lerchenfeldstrasse on behalf of the Glauchaer Schützengesellschaft , which had to be sold again in 1898 due to poor financial circumstances. It is a two-and-a-half-storey plastered building in neo-renaissance forms with corner bay windows on console stones richly decorated with acanthus leaves in a prominent urban development position. After several changes of ownership, the KPD set up a Lenin memorial here in 1929 , which is considered the oldest memorial of its kind in Germany.

Permanent exhibitions

Since December 2012, the new permanent exhibition on the 18th century has been shown in the Christian-Wolff-Haus under the title Sociability and the "Freedom to Philosophize" - Hall in the Age of Enlightenment . The entrance to this exhibition is the presentation of the thought game , the focus of which is the philosopher Christian Wolff.

On May 12, 2013, the interactive permanent exhibition on the history of the city of Halle with the title Discover Halle was opened in the former print shop building, which forms the focus of the city museum.

Special exhibitions

The museum regularly organizes special exhibitions on topics with historical or current reference from the fields of art, culture and technology.

literature

  • City Museum Halle . Ed .: Stadtmuseum Halle. Idea, editing, layout: B. Werner. Halle 1996, 95 pp.
  • Discover Halle !: a picture and reading book on the city's history . Ed .: City of Halle (Saale). Halle (Saale) 2016, ISBN 978-3-9817366-1-8 , 199 pp.

Web links

Commons : Stadtmuseum Halle - Christian-Wolff-Haus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 49 ″  N , 11 ° 58 ′ 17 ″  E