Weimar City Museum

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Weimar City Museum in the Bertuchhaus

The City Museum Weimar is the first city ​​museum in Thuringia . It is located in Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 5 in Weimar .

description

The classicist residential and commercial building, built in two construction phases between 1780 and 1803, was named after its builder, the writer, publisher and most important entrepreneur in Weimar during the Goethe era, Friedrich Justin Bertuch (1747–1822). Between 1780 and 1782 Johann Friedrich Rudolph Steiner built a residential and commercial building for Bertuch, the north wing. The middle section was designed and built from 1799–1803 by the Weimar architect Johann Christian Heinrich Schlueter. This is where the Landes-Industrie-Comtoir or the Geographical Institute was located . The Weimar City Museum has been located in the Bertuchhaus since 1954. It emerged from private collections in the 19th century. It was founded on June 24, 1889 as a natural science museum under the direction of the Natural Science Society . It was located in four rooms of the school, today's adult education center, behind the town church. In 1892, due to lack of space, the company moved to the Poseck'sche Haus , which is home to the Museum of Prehistory and Early History of Thuringia . Both museums ultimately owe their creation to the initiative of the Natural Science Society . When it was taken over into municipal administration in 1903, it became the first city museum in Thuringia . The city museum has been located in the Bertuchhaus since 1955.

Objects related to the history of Weimar are shown. The history of the city of Weimar is presented as a whole. In addition to prehistory and early history , Bertuch u. a. also the history of the Weimar Republic . This also applies to Weimar watch production at VEB Uhrenwerk Weimar , for which a special exhibition was held in 2016. The greater part of the artistic estate of the painter Alfred Ahner is also located here. The textile collection housed here is of national importance.

In a letter to his friend Christian Gottfried Körner, Friedrich Schiller described this house as the most beautiful in all of Weimar. In this letter, Schiller left a very detailed assessment of this building.

The Weimarhallenpark is located behind the building . The workshops that formed a four-sided courtyard at the rear of the Bertuchhaus no longer exist. One of the most famous people who once worked in them was Christiane Vulpius . The workshops, which were used by various institutions and craft businesses after the decline of the Bertuch company, were torn down in 1928 for the construction of the Weimarhalle.

Varia

Since 2006 the art gallery "Harry Graf Kessler" has been operated by the city administration through the city museum. In addition, the bee museum is connected to the city museum.

literature

  • Walter Steiner , Uta Kühn-Stillmark: Friedrich Justin Bertuch. A life in classic Weimar between culture and commerce. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne-Weimar-Vienna 2001.
  • Katharina Middell: The Bertuchs must be lucky everywhere in this world. The publisher Friedrich Justin Bertuch and his Landes-Industrie-Comptoir around 1800. Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-936522-17-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gitta Günther , Wolfram Huschke , Walter Steiner (eds.): Weimar. Lexicon on city history. Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1998, p. 252.
  2. ↑ https://stadtmuseum.weimar.de/index.php?id=9r
  3. ↑ http://fabian.sub.uni-goettingen.de/fabian?Stadtmuseum_(Weimar)
  4. ^ Gitta Günther , Wolfram Huschke , Walter Steiner (eds.): Weimar. Lexicon on city history. Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1998, p. 419 f.
  5. ↑ http://stadtmuseum.weimar.de/index.php?id=239&L=qioyurjrrfic
  6. ↑ http://www.thueringer-allgemeine.de/web/zgt/kultur/detail/-/specific/Sonderausstellung-zur-Geschichte-des-Weimarer-Uhrenwerkes-268231219
  7. ↑ Friedrich Schiller; Christian Gottfried Körner: Schiller's correspondence with Körner: From 1784 until Schiller's death. Part 1: 1784-1788 , Verlag von Veit & Comp., Berlin 1847, p. 153.
  8. ^ Gitta Günther , Wolfram Huschke , Walter Steiner (eds.): Weimar. Lexicon on city history. Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1998, p. 41.
  9. ↑ https://stadtmuseum.weimar.de/index.php?id=16&L=406
  10. ^ Gitta Günther , Wolfram Huschke , Walter Steiner (eds.): Weimar. Lexicon on city history. Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1998, p. 420.

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 59.1 ″  N , 11 ° 19 ′ 31.8 ″  E