Pirna City Museum

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Pirna City Museum (2012)

The Stadtmuseum Pirna , spelled StadtMuseum Pirna , is the central city and local museum of the Saxon district town of Pirna , which is also the administrative seat of the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district. It is one of the oldest museums in the Free State of Saxony and is located in the Klosterhof 2 building, which is adjacent to the monastery church .

history

In 1861 the Pirna Municipal Trade Association founded the first museum. In the years from 1878, the Mountain Association for Saxon Switzerland began collecting objects relating to the local history and history of Pirna and the Elbe Sandstone Mountains (Saxon Switzerland) as well as natural and folklore. Both separate collections were combined and have been in the chapter house building of the former Dominican monastery in the old town of Pirna since 1923 .

The museum already published its own series of publications in the GDR, the individual issues of which were widely distributed.

Until 1986 the Pirna City Museum was headed by the later honorary citizen Karl Grumpelt under sometimes relatively difficult conditions. The spatial situation with regard to the appropriate storage of the museum property in the old monastery building was problematic. The structural condition of the city museum deteriorated due to a lack of funds for urgently needed investments, so that the museum had to be closed for renovation work in 1984. The reopening took place only after a thorough renovation and redesign of the entrance area in 1993.

Exhibitions

In the Pirna City Museum, special exhibitions by contemporary artists related to Pirna and the surrounding area are presented at irregular intervals. For example, in the past this included:

  • Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler (1899–1940), avant-garde painter who was murdered in the Pirna-Sonnenstein killing center as part of the National Socialist euthanasia campaign T4. The exhibition in the Pirna City Museum took place in 2003.
  • Eva Schulze-Knabe (1907–1976), painter and graphic artist from Pirna and a resistance fighter against National Socialism. The exhibition of her works took place from February to May 2007.
  • Hernando León (* 1933), Chilean artist. The exhibition of selected works was presented in 2008.

Awards

In a Germany-wide competition by the Federal Ministry of Construction, the city museum received a prize for the combination of the old building and modern furnishings.

Booklets of the series of publications of the Pirna City Museum "Historical and local history articles from Pirna and the surrounding area"

  • Horst Torke: Old stone crosses between Dresden, Pirna and Saxon Switzerland (= series of publications of the Pirna City Museum, issue 1), 1983, 2nd edition 1990.
  • Siegfried Lange: Saxon postal mile columns around Pirna (= series of publications by the Pirna City Museum, issue 2), 1984.
  • Gunter H. Schmidt: Vom Pirnischen Eisen (= series of publications by the Pirna City Museum, issue 3)
  • Anneliese Zänsler : The history of town music in Pirna (= series of publications by the town museum Pirna, issue 4), 1985, ISSN  0323-7516 .
  • Alfred Neugebauer: Pfaffenstein and Neurathen, excavations at a prehistoric hilltop settlement and medieval rock castle in Saxon Switzerland (= series of publications by the Pirna City Museum, volume 5), 1986.
  • Klaus Kroitzsch: Napoleon entrenchments and cannon balls, memorial sites and testimonies to the War of Liberation in 1813 in the area around Pirna (= series of publications by the Pirna City Museum, issue 6), 1987.
  • Horst Torke: Forest boundary stones of the official forests in Saxon Switzerland (= series of publications by the Pirna City Museum, issue 7), 1989.
  • Siegfried Börtitz: Weather vanes between Dresden and Saxon Switzerland (= series of publications by the Pirna City Museum, issue 8), 1994.
  • Moritz Martin: From house and farm - villagers, raftsmen and stone breakers in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains - folklore considerations from the 19th century (= series of publications by the Pirna City Museum, issue 9), 1996.
  • René Prokoph: Stone signpost pillars in the district of Saxon Switzerland (= series of publications by the Pirna City Museum, issue 10), 1997.
  • Dieter Kutschke: Quarries and stone crushers in Saxon Switzerland (= series of publications by the Pirna City Museum, issue 11), 2000.
  • Horst Torke: Matthias Öder in Saxon Switzerland. Öder's estate from the picture of the landscape at the end of the 16th century (= series of publications by the Pirna City Museum, issue 12), 2004.
  • Dieter Schaal: The craft of the gunsmiths and gunsmiths in Pirna (= series of publications by the Pirna City Museum, issue 13), 2005.

In addition, the following publications appeared in the Pirna City Museum or were issued by the Pirna City Museum:

  • Century Reviews - Contributions to the history of the Saxon Switzerland district 1901-2000 , 2001.

literature

  • Manfred Hickmann, Sabine Holterman, Rene Misterek, Dietmar Stohn, Dieter Schaal, Waltraut Guth, Gerburg Sturm: Stadtmuseum Pirna (= Sächsische Museen, Volume 8), 1999.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rene Misterek: Confidence and serenity prevailed . On the work of Karl Grumpelt in the Pirna City Museum , in: Kuratorium Altstadt Pirna (ed.): Pirnaer Hefte 2-1998 / 99, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 1999, pp. 123–129.

Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 49.3 "  N , 13 ° 56 ′ 21.3"  E