Ingolstadt City Museum

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The Ingolstadt City Museum in the Kavalier Hepp

The Ingolstadt City Museum is located in the Kavalier Hepp , a fortress from the 19th century. It shows the historical and cultural development of the Ingolstadt area from early history . The toy museum and the project space European Danube Museum Ingolstadt are integrated.

history

Historical association

In 1865, under the direction of the municipal legal adviser Franz Xaver Ostermair, history buffs came together to form an association. Within ten years the historical association had 154 members, including representatives of the city, the clergy and the state fortress of Ingolstadt . It was taken for granted that the mayor and the fortress commander would become members. The close ties between the association and the city were particularly evident in the fact that the main focus of its activities was on securing, preserving and recording the city archive, the written tradition of the city since its foundation. The historical association Ingolstadt considered the preservation of history of Ingolstadt and its surroundings as an outstanding goal, but also the collection of historical objects. This is how the foundation of the city museum was created.

The archaeological collection was based on an extensive excavation activity of the association chairmen with association members.

Takeover by the city

The collection of the historical association, which also includes the holdings of the later scientific library , was initially housed in the old town hall and in the upper room of the cross gate . It is thanks to the fortress governor Karl von Sauers that the historical association negotiated with the city regarding the takeover of the collection into city ownership and the establishment of a city museum. In 1904 the city made the building of the former high school available to the association as an advance payment . The rooms on the ground floor were set up for museum use. The condition of the city was that the collections should be taken over by the city.

On January 9, 1905, the historical association agreed to the transfer to the city. As before, the care of the collection was the responsibility of the members of the historical association, which could now be viewed at regular opening times and was expanded a year later. Joseph Hartmann wrote the first museum guide, in which, among the 34 groups listed, the city's book of privileges and the Swedish horse appear as the main attractions.

Museum in the New Palace

A significant exhibit in the museum. The so-called Swedish horse of King Gustav Adolf II.

In 1925 the Municipal Museum moved to the New Palace . The installation of the collection in the rooms of the spacious late medieval castle was carried out by Major ad Witz, who had been the collection manager since 1916. In 1925, a small gallery was integrated from the state painting collection in Munich. The guide, written by Hermann Witz in 1926, shows a significantly improved concept after the confinement in the high school. The later chronological structure in combination with the factual topics of Ingolstadt's history was carried out in the New Palace. In 1945, the year of the war, bombs caused considerable damage in the New Palace. After the war , the castle and museum were rebuilt and the museum holdings were largely prevented from being looted. On April 24, 1954, a new installation of the city museum in the New Palace was opened. Under the leadership of Dr. Joseph Reicharts redesigned the collection, especially the early historical collection was reorganized according to scientific criteria. The picture gallery was also reopened. After the war, the city archives and the scientific city library began operations in the same building.

In March 1965 the City Archives, City Museum and Scientific City Library had to move out of the New Palace. The Bavarian Army Museum was to be housed there.

Reopening in the Kavalier Hepp

The Ingolstadt City Museum was reopened in January 1981. Stations of Ingolstadt history were set up in around 50 rooms .

The most important departments are the Stone Age cultures, the Hallstatt period, the Roman period, the early Middle Ages, Romanesque and Gothic stone sculptures, city gates, the city and its floor plan, the Duchy of Bavaria-Ingolstadt, late Gothic, university era, wars of the 16th and 17th centuries , Jesuit culture, urban representation, coin cabinet, from the baroque to the enlightenment, Ingolstadt book printing, grave crosses, trade and transport, the guilds, baroque piety, the city in the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as the department from handicraft to industry.

literature

  • City Museum Ingolstadt in the Kavalier Hepp. Opening on January 30, 1981, published by the City of Ingolstadt, 1981
  • Gerd Hit, Siegfried Hofmann: City Museum Ingolstadt . Westermann, Braunschweig 1988.
  • Manuscripts of the board texts, Ingolstadt City Archives Manuscripts City Museum 1–4
  • Beatrix Schönewald: 100 Years of the City Museum . In: Collection sheet of the historical association Ingolstadt . No. 115 , 2005, ISSN  1619-6074 .

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Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 3.9 "  N , 11 ° 24 ′ 58.7"  E