City Museum Wedel
 Museum building in Küsterstrasse 5 |
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| Data | |
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| place |
Wedel 
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| Art | |
| opening | 1912 (as an antiquity museum), 1992 (reopening) |
| operator |
City of Wedel
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| management |
Holger Junker
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| Website | |
| ISIL | DE-MUS-403810 |
The Stadtmuseum Wedel is a municipal museum in Wedel in the Schleswig-Holstein district of Pinneberg . It houses a city history collection with exhibits from the time of the first documentary mention of Wedel up to modern times .
history
In 1912 the museum was opened as an antiquity museum with the establishment of a folklore collection . During the National Socialist era , it was renamed the Heimatmuseum in 1936 . After the Second World War, the collection was sold in 1945/46 and the museum was closed. The Schleswig-Holsteinische Heimatbund campaigned for the museum to be reopened in the 1980s. In 1989, a specialist was hired to deal with the local history of the city, and after the building was restored, the museum, the Wedel local history museum , was opened in 1992 . The permanent exhibition covers cultural and social-historical aspects of the city. The museum has been called Stadtmuseum Wedel since 2006 and has been expanded to include collections from the history of industry and technology .
Permanent exhibition
The exhibits included archaeological finds from the nearby former tower castle Hatzburg . Other focal points of the exhibition are the development of the market town due to its location on Ochsenweg , the development of agriculture, handicrafts and trade and the change from village to city. An important location in the history of technology is the MÖLLER-TECHICON on the premises of the Möller-Wedel company . The outstanding exhibits of the permanent exhibition include paintings by the impressionist landscape painter Rudolf Höckner (1864–1942), who worked in Wedel for more than 30 years.
Museum building
The museum building at Küsterstrasse 5 was built in 1829 as the first Wedel schoolhouse. It is a two-storey late classicist brick building with a hipped roof . It is on the list of cultural monuments in Wedel and, together with the Immanuelkirche, the pastorate, the Marktplatz 3 building and the Wedel Roland statue, forms the last remaining urban ensemble of listed buildings in Wedel. After the museum was closed in 1945/46, the vacated building was used as accommodation for displaced persons . It was then the seat of various institutions and associations until it was rededicated as a museum.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum director Holger Junker: Fire and flame for Wedel's story. In: City of Wedel. January 23, 2020, accessed April 7, 2020 .
- ↑ a b The Wedel City Museum. In: City of Wedel. Retrieved April 7, 2020 .