Schongau City Museum
The Museum of the City of Schongau in Schongau am Lech in the Upper Bavarian district of Weilheim-Schongau, founded in 1891, is one of the early local museums in Bavaria.
The collections of the entire guild of the Schongau district, historical exhibits from the city and private donations to the museum were exhibited. Initially, the museum was housed in the Ballenhaus on Marienplatz, before the outbreak of the First World War, the museum ceased to operate. After the end of this war, the museum was revitalized, but looted at the end of the Second World War and then closed.
In 1965 the city museum was reopened in an existing building outside the city wall, but from 1972 these rooms were used as classrooms for school operations and the city museum has recently been closed. Later it was planned to convert the former St. Erasmus hospital church in the old town into the city museum. In 1989 the first section of the new museum was opened to the public, and the second section followed in 1991. Due to municipal financial problems, the full-time museum tour, which had been installed since the museum moved to the former hospital church, had to be discontinued in 2003. Since 2004, the historical association Schongau - Stadt und Land eV has been running the city museum on a voluntary basis.
Since then, the museum has acted as a regional focus museum and also shows changing special exhibitions on various topics.
literature
- Georg Paula , Stefanie Berg-Hobohm : District Weilheim-Schongau (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.23 ). Lipp, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-87490-585-3 , pp. 391 f .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Historischer Verein Schongau eV (Ed.): History of the City Museum , accessed on April 16, 2014
- ↑ Historischer Verein Schongau eV (Ed.): Current special exhibition , accessed on April 16, 2014
Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 45.9 ″ N , 10 ° 53 ′ 43 ″ E