Mutzschen City Museum

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City Museum Mutzschen in the gatekeeper's house at Schloss Mutzschen
Move to the new museum in 1959

The Mutzschen City Museum is a city and local history museum in Mutzschen in the east of the Saxon district of Leipzig in Saxony . It is housed in Mutzschen Castle and shows exhibits on prehistory and early history up to the immediate past in two rooms, including ceramics, craft utensils, exhibits on school and club life and the fire brigade , exclusively for the former Mutzschen office and a home parlor, as well as a small gallery in the Grahner-Haus, Grimmaische Strasse 4.

history

After the Second World War , the need was great. The cold also became a problem, which is why the people in the silted-up Göttwitzsee mined peat in order to dry it and use it as fuel. This made it possible to allocate people additional Mutzschen peat stones to the brown coal briquettes allocated to brands. A bent spring was found while digging peat, which a Mr. Max Höhne wisely did not throw away, but gave to the then State Office for Archeology in Dresden, which identified it as a bronze cross-bar fibula . After that, further finds were found in the peat, so the builder Richard Thierbach, the teacher Alfred Leber and the pioneer leader Willy Zerson decided to set up a home room. They received the former syringe house, and in front of it the infirmary and poor house in Berggasse to furnish their home room. After much preparatory work, the Heimatstube was set up in 1951. The local researcher Renate Sturm-Francke helped with knowledge, skills and materials. Tensions arose between Richard Thierbach and Renate Sturm-Francke about the use of funds and conflicting views on museum work, so the Heimatstube should be closed again. Jutta Barthel came to the Mutzschen School as a substitute in January 1956. Later, due to family and health problems, she had to give up her professional plans and stay in Mutzschen. Renate Sturm-Francke convinced her that, as a history teacher and specialist advisor, she should take over the home office, she would provide support. So Jutta Barthel took over the home office.

In 1959, the Heimatstube moved to the eastern part of the gatekeeper's house and the hunger tower of Mutzschen Castle . The hunger tower is still used today for special exhibitions and small events. The rooms were designed extensively, unfortunately this part of the building had to be demolished because the northern mountain slope had slipped after heavy rainfall. The hunger tower had been cleared with the help of students, the former dungeon was exposed, as was the guard room. They were to be used by the youth hostel at that time, which was set up in the castle. After a few years there was a temporary solution in the Grahner House, which lasted for a long time. Strong support for the expansion of the gatekeeper house came from the then Mutzschen mayors Bernd Hinz, Volker Lämmel and Heinrich Hiersemann. The latter took care of construction work and a foundation, the State Office for Museum Affairs gave a lot of support and help with the design. In 1999 Rainer Aurig was able to open the city museum at a celebration with the Mutzschen population. Many new exhibits were added. The extensive archive and a small gallery in the Grahner House are still accessible to interested guests. On the upper floor of the flanking tower in the castle, special exhibitions are being organized by the local history museum, for example in 2011 as part of the 3rd Saxon state exhibition on the subject of Via Regia . Many scientific inquiries have been answered since the opening. For her voluntary museum work, Jutta Barthel received the Heimatpreis and in 2004 the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . The future of the museum is uncertain due to the poor financial situation of the Saxon municipalities and the lack of prospects for Mutzschen Castle.

Museum director Ms. Jutta Barthel on May 1, 2004

exhibition

Mori Ogai

An exhibition area commemorates the important Japanese doctor and writer Mori Ogai , who stayed in Mutzschen in 1885. His translation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe into Japanese has earned him recognition up to the present day.

Mutzschen treasure trove

The museum contains information on one of the largest penny finds in Saxony from the Hussite period around 1430, which was found in the city center during construction work in 1972.

Court sword

The Mutzschen judicial sword is in the museum. This sword is said to be a replica of the sword that Heinrich von Starschedel is said to have received from Albrecht the Courageous on the occasion of his appointment as "Knight of the Jerusalem Tomb" .

Web links

  1. Link website of the museum to the website of the city of Mutzschen. Retrieved February 24, 2011.
  2. Link photographs of the exhibition. Retrieved February 24, 2011.
  3. Link information about the museum on Via Regia Sachsen. Retrieved February 24, 2011.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mutzschen City Administration: Mutzschen Official Gazette. The messenger of home. Mutzschen, April 2007, page 1, (PDF, 1.02 MB), URL: online , accessed on: February 24, 2011.
  2. ^ Mutzschen City Administration: Mutzschen Official Gazette. The messenger of home. Mutzschen, May 2010, page 8, (PDF, 1.12 MB), URL: online , accessed on: February 22, 2011.
  3. ↑ Media Service Saxony: Prime Minister Milbradt hands over nine personalities the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. (December 17, 2004, accessed: February 24, 2011)

Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 38 "  N , 12 ° 53 ′ 4"  E