City Museum Löbau
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The Löbau City Museum, founded in 1894 (full name: "Oberlausitzer Sechsstädtebund- und Handwerksmuseum Löbau - Stadtmuseum Löbau") in Löbau , Johannisstraße 3–5, houses cultural and natural history collections from the areas of city history, craft and trade, the history of the Six Cities Association , folklore , Upper Lusatian bed history ( n), historical toys, historical musical instruments, prehistory around the Löbauer Berg and sacred plastic Löbau.
history
prehistory
The first idea for a museum came from Karl Benjamin Preusker (1786–1871), son of the city of Löbau, who was already collecting for a museum and initially giving the collected objects to the Löbau council library. In 1859, however, he wrote wistfully: "The idea of setting up a museum of rarities has probably not come about?"
Julius Dehne also stated in 1896: "... you don't even have to make an effort to preserve the existing objects ...". The idea failed because of the premises.
Founded until the Second World War
Julius Sandt (Löbauer Brewery Director) was the first to inspire the Löbauer Citizens Association with a museum idea in 1893. It was initially planned and implemented as an exhibition with around 750 showpieces on the second floor of the town hall. The opening date was on Ascension Day , May 3, 1894.
Alfred Moschkau wrote about the exhibition: “The exhibition was and is in fact a very successful one in every respect. It contains a lot of important pieces that Löbau would envy some big cities…. If the city of Löbau gave around 3 rooms to a city museum, a work could be created that Löbau could be proud of. ”In addition to the city's history, showpieces on European history, art history and folklore were collected. Scientific instruments were also shown, such as natural history objects, interesting books, coins and medals.
Spurred on by the success of the exhibition, the city council decided to found the museum on July 27, 1894. Numerous collectibles came together, which many citizens made permanently available to the museum. Four rooms were made available in the town hall . As early as 1899, the exhibition had to move out again and was moved to the upper rooms of the Eichamt, Johannisstraße 5. However, it was unfavorable that the rooms were much too cold and dark and soon no longer sufficed for the collections. Since 1903 new premises were sought. Expansion and new building projects failed due to the general social conditions.
Julius Sandt was the museum's first honorary director until 1928. He was followed by the senior seminar teacher Otto Staudinger . He held his office until Easter 1943 when he stepped down because of the Nazi regime.
In 1944 the collection was relocated due to the war.
Post-war until 1989
In October 1945 the house was reopened by Prof. Staudinger. However, he lamented the loss of a large number of valuable exhibits . On April 1, 1951, he handed over the management of the city museum to his successor. He redesigned the museum in the socialist style. He designed a history exhibition and special exhibitions were increasingly offered.
A folklore exhibition has been shown in the reconstructed house since 1974. On the occasion of the 90th anniversary in 1984, a new permanent exhibition on the history of Löbau with geology and early history of the area was opened.
After the reunification period until today
In the 1990s, the extensive craft and trade exhibition, the exhibition on the Six Cities Association and a popular toy show came into being. Today the museum consists of three buildings plus an outdoor storage area with a total of around 2000 m².
Despite extensions, there is a lack of space for the constantly growing collections. Many interesting exhibits are therefore stored in the magazines .
Exhibitions
In addition to permanent exhibitions on various topics, the museum also shows changing special exhibitions from its own holdings and from loans .
Permanent exhibitions
- On 540 m² there are exhibits on the history of Löbau. This includes a piece of the history of Upper Lusatia as well as that of the six cities:
- City history exhibition on the first floor: In many expositions, this shows an excerpt from Löbau's history from around 1200 to the 20th century. Interiors such as a 19th century bourgeois room, a workers' kitchen around 1900, an eat-in kitchen around 1940 and a living room from the 1960s complete the exhibition.
- Six cities exhibition on the first floor: exhibits on the history of the association, such as B. the Six Cities League Cup around 1680
The history of the craft can be experienced not only from Löbau on 180 m²:
- Exhibition on handicrafts and trading facilities of bygone times in small booths on the second floor: All professions are represented that were typical in Löbau and other medieval cities, such as B. from the shoemaker , of whom there were at least 90 in the city of Löbau at weddings, to the book printer to the pharmacist and the entire field of textile craftsmen (e.g. draperies ).
In addition to the exhibition, a real corner shop from the old GDR era has been set up in the external storage area. It can only be viewed by prior arrangement.
Further exhibition areas:
- Historical means of transport from bygone times: such as a special kind of pram, high bikes and the old council chair of the Löbau city council
- Folklore: a folklore room (next to the folklore objects in the external store) shows with a model of a typical Upper Lusatian half-timbered house and a model of the associated weaver's room an insight into Upper Lusatian village life with weavers' and farmhouses
- Studio exhibition Upper Lusatian bed history (s): the sleeping habits of bygone times from antiquity to the 20th century are presented and described, embedded in Upper Lusatian farm furniture, surrounded by many gems of that time
- Studio exhibition Sacred Sculpture on the second floor and in the Preusker Hall: Church sculptures from the Middle Ages to the Baroque
- Studio exhibition of toys on the first floor: toys from great-grandma, but also from grandma and grandpa, with a play and painting corner for children
- Studio exhibition König-Friedrich-August-Turm on the ground floor: exhibits and history of the Löbauer tower
Special exhibitions
Four to six special exhibitions are shown per year on around 250 m² (in three exhibition rooms).
collection
Significant cultural and historical objects have been and are being collected.
Completed special collections are: mineralogy and geology, flora and fauna, prehistory and early history, numismatics, autographs, postcards from all over the world, posters, film history, historical library and weapons.
Special collections that are still open are: Postcards Löbau and surroundings, cartography, toys, lighting, printed matter and written material - only according to the selection principle, focus on Löbau, industrial and commercial history Löbau - only according to the selection principle.
The museum holds documentation collections for the following topics:
- City of Löbau, Upper Lusatia, personalities Löbau and the environment, folklore, historical photo and negative collection
The objects in the collection are recorded as part of a museum inventory and scientific cataloging and prepared for exhibition purposes or appropriately conserved and preserved for posterity.
In 2006 over 50,000 objects or object groups were inventoried. The museum team currently manages around 65,000 individual exhibits (as of 2015).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ City of Löbau: Löbauer Journale , Issue 3 (1994), p. 9.
Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 42.3 " N , 14 ° 40 ′ 4.6" E