Jena City Museum
Today the Göhre is the city museum of Jena . It is located on the northern side of the historic market square .
History of the building
The foundation walls of the Göhre date from the 13th century. The building was acquired in 1893 by Paul Göhre (1870–1954), who is today the namesake of the building. In 1907 Göhre had the market mill in Saalstrasse replaced by a stately neo-Gothic house with a passage to the market and operated a wine trade and a wine restaurant in the connected buildings, which existed until at least 1917. In addition to the wine cellars at Griesbachgarten, he also owned the cloister courtyard.
History of the museum
The city museum itself was founded in 1901 on the initiative of the art historian Paul Weber , and the first exhibition opened for two years. The building in Weigelstrasse and large parts of the museum's exhibits were destroyed by the air raids on Jena during World War II. After the war, there were decades of short-term makeshift arrangements in which the museum was relocated to various locations in the city until it moved to the Göhre on the market square in 1988.
Today a timeline in the stairwell of the museum leads through the four exhibition levels on the history of the city from the prehistoric times to the first mention around 830/850 to 1850. Among other things, the "Jena Luther Edition " can be viewed , which was more successful than the one from Wittenberg , as well as the Jena "Wartburg flag" from 1816, on which the German national colors black, red and gold are united for the first time. Special exhibitions highlight individual aspects such as the history of Jena as a book town or its involvement in the crimes of the Second World War .
The museum also has extensive collections on the history of the city and the university, including city and landscape views, portraits of professors, archives , views and models of Jena buildings, exhibits on the battle of 1806 and an art collection from the Middle Ages to the present. The house has a library for scientific purposes. The stairwell of the museum opens at the same time to a neo-Gothic extension, the “Neue Göhre”, which houses the exhibitions of the Jena Art Collection .
Heads / Directors
- Paul Weber, until 1930
- Hanna Stirnemann , 1930–1935, Germany's first female museum director
- Werner Meinhof , 1936–1939
- Oskar Schmolitzky, unofficial director until 1958
- Liselotte Honigmann-Zinserling , 1958–1961
- Christina Didier, 1961–1990
- Holger Nowak, 1990-2008
- Matias Mieth, 2008–2015
- Ulf Häder, since April 1, 2015
Publication series
- Documentation by the Jena City Museum (22 volumes until May 2012)
- Building blocks for the history of Jena.
- Publications of the city museum.
literature
- Birgitt Hellmann / Matias Mieth: Jena City Museum In: Stutz, Rüdiger / Mieth, Matias (eds.): Jena. Lexicon on the city history Berching 2018, p. 606f.
- Birgitt Hellmann: Paul Weber. Art historian, museum founder and preservationist in Jena. In: Jürgen John, Volker Wahl (ed.): Between convention and avant-garde. Twin city Jena Weimar. Böhlau, Weimar 1995, pp. 91-104.
- Birgitt Hellmann: Johanna-Hofmann-Stirnemann. The first female museum director in Germany. In: Gisela Horn (ed.): Design and Reality. Women in Jena 1900 to 1933 (= building blocks for Jena city history, volume 5): Hain, Rudolstadt / Jena 2001, pp. 325–338.
- Susann Morgenthal: Oskar Schmolitzky. Folklorist, folk art researcher and museum director in Jena. In: Marina Moritz, Andrea Steiner-Sohn (ed.): Folklore in Thuringia. Contributions to specialist history. City administration, Erfurt 2007, pp. 52–58.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ilse Traeger: The Jena North Cemetery. History and personalities, Jena 1996, p. 39.
- ^ Paul Weber: The municipal museum. In: Jenaische Zeitung, Jg. 228, No. 247, October 20, 1901. URL http://zs.thulb.uni-jena.de/receive/jportal_jparticle_00140867 (accessed on January 8, 2013)
- ^ Hellmann, Weber (1995), p. 93.
Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 42.5 " N , 11 ° 35 ′ 17.8" E