Siegburg City Museum

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Siegburg City Museum
2010-01-25 Siegburg City Museum Schnee.jpg
Exterior view of the City Museum, January 2010
Data
place Siegburg
Art
History and art museum
architect Hartmut de Corné
opening May 19, 1990
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-296211

The Stadtmuseum Siegburg is an archaeological, art and cultural history museum on the history of Siegburg . It was opened in May 1990 in the former Latin school on the market, the birthplace of the composer Engelbert Humperdinck . The museum documents the history of the city from the early days to the present on four exhibition levels. In addition to archeology, fossils and the Siegburg Renaissance ceramics, exhibitions by contemporary artists are shown. Together with two event rooms for 199 visitors each, the Siegburg City Museum is a cultural center in the Rhein-Sieg district on the right bank of the Rhine. Since 2014 it has been connected to the Siegburg City Library by a passage to form an open cultural center.

History of the collection

Siegburger Keramik (2016)

The collection dates back to 1903. Encouraged by the mayor Carl Plum, an "Altertumsverein Siegburg" (today "History and Antiquity Association for Siegburg and the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis") was founded, which collects and preserves "antiquities" related to the history of Siegburg and the former Sieg-Kreis had made it a task. Special attention was paid to the Siegburger ceramic products and everyday objects. After a first exhibition in 1916, the collection was temporarily housed in the premises of the Abbey on Michaelsberg, after the Second World War in a small local history museum in Kaiserstraße, and from 1960 onwards in a cultural center also in Kaiserstraße. This had to give way to urban redevelopment in 1972. Until the opening of today's city museum in 1990, a part was shown in the "Torhaus Museum" of the Siegwerk.

Museum building

The original building was erected from 1826 in the classical style for the municipal high school over the preserved cellar vaults of the medieval town hall. Several extensions were made by 1909, the facade design being adapted to the older part of the building. After the grammar school had to move to the former teacher training college in Siegburg due to lack of space, the building was first used as a local court in 1930 and later as a tax office. The conversion to a museum took place in 1988 according to plans by the Siegburg architect Hartmut de Corné. During the fundamental redesign of the entire building, an attempt was made to restore the room layout given by the original function as a school and to transfer it into the museum context. Among other things, a former inner courtyard was integrated as an event forum by lowering the floor level and the museum complex was expanded to include a temporary exhibition area. Another event hall based on the historical model was built in the former high school auditorium.

Birthplace of Engelbert Humperdinck and Joseph Hermann Mohr

Steingraeber grand piano by Engelbert Humperdinck (loan from the Frankfurt Historical Museum)

The building of today's city museum is the birthplace of Engelbert Humperdinck and Joseph Hermann Mohr . The composer Humperdinck (born September 1, 1854 in Siegburg, † September 27, 1921 in Neustrelitz) was the son of the grammar school teacher Gustav (Ferdinand) Humperdinck and the cantor's daughter Gertrud (Helene Olivia) Hartmann, who lived in an official apartment in the Progymnasium. Humperdinck achieved worldwide fame through his fairy tale opera Hansel and Gretel. The Jesuit father Joseph Hermann Mohr (born January 10, 1834 in Siegburg, † February 7, 1892 in Munich) was also born as a teacher's son in the Progymnasium. Mohr was a hymnologist, hymn composer and lyricist and made a contribution to the reform of the German hymn in the time of the Kulturkampf .

Culture house with city museum and city library

The cultural institutions of the City Museum and City Library, which had previously been housed in neighboring but separate buildings, were combined into a cultural center in 2014 through structural measures. This means that holders of the library card also have free entry to the city museum. Joint events and content-related interconnections of the historical permanent exhibition and subject areas of the city library are intended to promote openness for visitors to both institutions.

Permanent exhibition

The permanent exhibition extends over the four floors of the city museum and is grouped according to the following topics:

In addition to the modern design concept of the permanent exhibition, a collection of fossils (Upper Oligocene) from an abandoned coal mine in Hennef ( Rott fossil deposit ), the ceramic products manufactured in Siegburg from the Middle Ages to the 17th century ( Rhenish ceramics ) and a number of the remodeling for Museum found relics of medieval buildings that have remained in place and have been integrated into the museum exhibition.

  • "Home-Heimat" by HA Schult 2014

  • Department of Prehistory and Protohistory

  • Gothic gargoyles in the forum

  • the "Käx", historical pillory of the city

  • Industrial History Department

  • Siegburg kiosk after World War II

Special exhibitions

"Pegasus" by Harald Naegeli

The focus of the temporary exhibition is on contemporary art. Since the opening, around 200 artists have shown their works in solo and group exhibitions, art events or installations. The spectrum ranges from painting to sculpture to installations and performance. The museum management attaches particular importance to the promotion of young artists. Part of the concept of the house is to supplement the city history departments with works by contemporary artists. Important exhibitions were: Jo Jastram with light installations and sound objects for the opening; Walter Valentini , who designed his work "Siegburg - His Heaven, His Dimensions" especially for the City Museum and has since been shown there in the Forum. Hans-Günther van Look ; Armin Mueller-Stahl and Harald Naegeli were guests in the city museum on the occasion of the city anniversary in 2014 (950 years of Siegburg), for which the action artist HA Schult also used the facade of the museum building for his HOME_HEIMAT tableau. Artists with a regional focus included: Viktor Bonato , Herbert Döring-Spengler , Hansik Gebert , Hermann-Josef Hack , Johannes Wolf, Jürgen Schmitz, KP Kremer and Norbert Müller-Everling . Other exhibitions included artists such as Mark Tobey (1990), Pablo Picasso (1992), Marc Chagall (1993), Antoni Tàpies (1994), Wasja Götze (1998), Jürgen Schadeberg (2009), Leonardo da Vinci (2010), Dieter Nuhr (2010), Günther Uecker (2010) and Salustiano (2010) as well as 2016 Hansik Gebert - Retrospective. Painting - Photography - Objects and the van Look retrospective in 2017/18 . In 2018, an exhibition with graphic works by Markus Lüpertz in cooperation with the Catholic Social Institute in Siegburg received a lot of attention .

Events

In addition to a total exhibition area of ​​2,000 m² with the auditorium based on the historical model, a central, spacious forum and a medieval vaulted cellar ("wine cellar"), the city museum also has several multifunctional rooms. The visitor capacity is a maximum of 199 people. With 30,000 to 35,000 visitors per year, the city museum is an event and conference center in the eastern Rhein-Sieg district. The cultural program consists of v. a. from concerts, cabaret, theater, lectures and museum education courses.

Already started in 1986 in cooperation with the history and antiquity association for Siegburg and the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, the association of friends of the Stadtmuseum Siegburg e. V. and the Association of Friends and Patrons of Michaelsberg e. V., the Siegburg Museum Talks take place regularly in the City Museum with free admission (over 260 lectures by 2019), which is also the oldest lecture series in the city of Siegburg. It is made possible by the Association of Friends of the City Museum.

Association of Friends of the Stadtmuseum Siegburg eV

With the plans for the new city museum, the Association of Friends of the City Museum was founded in 1989 with around 250 members (2016). The founding chairman was Werner Neunkirch, who was replaced by Klaus Hartmann in 2010. The friends' association supports numerous museum activities, especially the purchase of new collection items and museum educational work.

literature

Web links

Commons : Stadtmuseum Siegburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.stadtmuseum-siegburg.de/web/stadtmuseum/52934/index.html , accessed on February 12, 2016
  2. ↑ see http://www.siegburg950.de/web/950-jahre-siegburg/ accessed on March 9, 2016

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '55 "  N , 7 ° 5' 33"  E