Open Monument Day

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Open Monument Day 2006 in the Höchst Castle , Frankfurt am Main
Open Monument Day 2012 in the Stadtbad Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin

The Open Monument Day has been coordinated nationwide by the German Foundation for Monument Protection since 1993 . The day of action takes place annually on the second Sunday in September and has several million visitors each time.

description

The aim of the day of action is to make the importance of the architectural heritage tangible. The day of action is the German contribution to the European Heritage Days taking place across Europe . On the day of the open monument, many monuments that are otherwise inaccessible are open. Every year around 7,500 monuments in over 2,700 municipalities open on this day. Guided tours are offered in many places. The Open Monument Day is a protected trademark of the German Foundation for Monument Protection.

story

The idea of ​​a memorial day comes from France. In 1984, the then Minister of Culture, Jack Lang, launched the Open Days in Historic Landmarks ( Journées Portes ouvertes dans les monuments historiques ). Due to the great response, other countries followed suit over the next few years. In 1991 the Council of Europe took up these initiatives and officially founded the European Heritage Days .

In Germany, Gottfried Kiesow , the then President of the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse , started in 1991 with an open day in Hessian monuments. In 1992 the city of Halle joined. Kiesow, then deputy chairman of the German Foundation for Monument Protection, suggested that the foundation adopt the issue and coordinate a nationwide day of the open monument. This happened for the first time in 1993. The implementation was based on the Open Monument Days in the Netherlands. The appeal met with a great response: In the first year, 3500 monuments opened their doors in 1200 cities and communities. Around 2 million visits were recorded.

In 1998 the event was officially opened for the first time in Quedlinburg . Since 1999 the day has had a specific motto .

In 2006, the Open Monument Day was recognized as an “Excellent Place” by the “ Germany - Land of Ideas ” campaign .

In 2020, the nationwide Open Monument Day took place virtually for the first time in Germany due to the COVID-19 pandemic . Monument owners from all over Germany had placed more than 1200 contributions for virtual visitors on the website for the event.

program

The day of action opens in a different city each year. It is supported by several thousand local initiatives and partners - from voluntary helpers to the State Monuments Office. In addition to private monument owners, more than 2,600 municipalities take part.

Private and public monument owners can register their monument with the German Foundation for Monument Protection as a program offer by May 31st of each year. The prerequisite for participation is that the visit to the monument on the day of the campaign is free of charge. The entire program, which includes between 7,000 and 8,000 monuments open every year, will be published from August.

In addition, until 2017 there was the youth photo competition “Focus Monument”. Young people up to the age of 20 could submit their photos here, in keeping with the annual motto. A jury made up of monument experts awarded prizes for the three best photos, which were each endowed with prize money of 300 euros.

There is currently the annual “memorial snapshot” photo campaign.

Mottos

Every year the German Foundation for Monument Protection selects a motto to focus on new aspects of monument conservation . For detailed information on the mottos, see List of Open Monument Days .

  • 1999: Europe - a common heritage
  • 2000: Old buildings - new opportunities
  • 2001: Monument as a school - school as a monument
  • 2002: A monument seldom stands alone - streets, squares and ensembles
  • 2003: History up close - living in a monument
  • 2004: how's it going? - Focus on water
  • 2005: War and Peace
  • 2006: Lawns, Roses and Borders - Historic Gardens and Parks
  • 2007: Places of contemplation and prayer - historical sacred buildings
  • 2008: Past Uncovered - Archeology and Building Research
  • 2009: Historic places of enjoyment
  • 2010: Culture in Motion - Travel, Trade and Transport
  • 2011: Romanticism, Realism, Revolution - The 19th Century
  • 2012: wood
  • 2013: Beyond the good and the beautiful: Inconvenient monuments?
  • 2014: color
  • 2015: craft, technology, industry
  • 2016: Preserving monuments together
  • 2017: power and splendor
  • 2018: Discover what connects us
  • 2019: Modern (e): Upheavals in art and architecture
  • 2020: Chance memorial: remembering. Obtain. Rethink.
  • 2021: Being and appearing - in history, architecture and monument preservation

Associated memorial days

From 2021, the German Organ Day will take place at the same time as the Open Monument Day. The aim of the initiative is to raise public awareness about the organ . The German Organ Day also takes place every year on the second Sunday in September.

See also

literature

(in chronological order)

  • German Foundation for Monument Protection (Ed.): Special issue for the Open Monument Day September 9, 2007, annual theme 2007: Places of contemplation and prayer - historical sacred buildings. GGP Media GmbH, Pößneck 2007.
  • German Foundation for Monument Protection (Ed.): Special issue for the Open Monument Day September 14, 2008, annual theme 2008: Past Uncovered - Archeology and Building Research. Stark Druck GmbH & Co. KG, Pforzheim 2008.
  • German Foundation for Monument Protection (Ed.): Special issue for the Open Monument Day September 13, 2009, annual theme 2009: Historical places of enjoyment. GGP Media GmbH, Pößneck 2009.
  • German Foundation for Monument Protection (Ed.): Special issue for the Open Monument Day 10 September 2010, annual theme 2010: Culture on the move - travel, trade and traffic. GGP Media GmbH, Pößneck 2010.
  • German Foundation for Monument Protection (Ed.): Special issue for the Open Monument Day on September 11, 2011, annual theme 2011: Romanticism, Realism, Revolution - The 19th Century. GGP Media GmbH, Pößneck 2011.
  • German Foundation for Monument Protection (Ed.): Special issue for the Open Monument Day September 9, 2012, annual theme 2012: Wood. Weiss-Druck GmbH & Co. KG, Monschau 2012.
  • Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz (Ed.): Special issue for the Open Monument Day September 8, 2013, annual theme 2013: Beyond the good and the beautiful: Inconvenient monuments? GGP Media GmbH, Pößneck 2013.
  • German Foundation for Monument Protection (Ed.): Special issue for the Open Monument Day September 14, 2014, annual theme 2014: Color. GGP Media GmbH, Pößneck 2014 ( page no longer available , search in web archives: PDF ; no mementos).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / tag-des-offenen-denkmals.de
  • German Monument Protection Foundation (publisher): Special issue for the Open Monument Day on September 13, 2015, annual theme 2015: Crafts, technology, industry. GGP Media GmbH, Pößneck 2015.
  • German Foundation for Monument Protection (Ed.): Special issue for the Open Monument Day September 11, 2016, annual theme 2016: Collecting monuments together. GGP Media GmbH, Pößneck 2016.
  • German Foundation for Monument Protection (Ed.): Special issue for the Open Monument Day on September 10, 2017, annual theme 2017: Power and splendor. GGP Media GmbH, Pößneck 2017.
  • Bettina Vaupel: A present to the citizens - 25 years of the Open Monument Day. In: Monuments . Vol. 28 (2018), No. 4, ISSN  0941-7125 , pp. 8–15 ( monumente-online.de ).
  • German Monument Protection Foundation (ed.): The magazine for the Open Monument Day 8 September 2019, annual theme 2019: Modern (e): Upheavals in art and architecture. Bonn 2019 ( tag-des-offenen-denkmals.de [PDF; 4.3 MB]).

Web links

Commons : Open Monument Day  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bettina Vaupel: 25 years of the Open Monument Day. In: Monuments . Vol. 28 (2018), No. 4, pp. 8–15, here p. 9.
  2. ↑ Bettina Vaupel: 25 years of the Open Monument Day. In: Monuments . Vol. 28 (2018), No. 4, pp. 8–15, here p. 10.
  3. ↑ a b Bettina Vaupel: 25 years of the Open Monument Day. In: Monuments . Vol. 28 (2018), No. 4, pp. 8–15, here p. 11.
  4. ↑ Researching history on Monument Day - Open Monument Day. German Foundation for Monument Protection, 2008, accessed on June 7, 2021.
  5. ↑ Bettina Vaupel: 25 years of the Open Monument Day. In: Monuments . Vol. 28 (2018), No. 4, pp. 8–15, here p. 12.
  6. ↑ 365 Places 2006: German Foundation for Monument Protection. In: land-der-ideen.de, accessed on August 4, 2018, accessed on June 7, 2021.
  7. ↑ Digital Open Monument Day: Successful experiment. In: main-tauber-kreis.de. September 23, 2020, accessed September 24, 2020 .
  8. ^ Website of the Open Monument Day. In: tag-des-offenen-denkmals.de, accessed on June 7, 2021.
  9. ↑ Focus Monument 2017. Focus on power and splendor. In: tag-des-offenen-denkmals.de. Accessed on June 7, 2021 : "The motto of the Open Monument Day 'Power and Splendor' was also the motto of the 2017 Focus Monument youth photo competition, which the German Foundation for Monument Protection had called for."  -
    Focus on power and splendor. German Foundation for Monument Protection starts photo competition Focus Monument 2017. In: tag-des-offenen-denkmals.de. July 26, 2017, accessed on June 7, 2021 : "Children and young people up to the age of 20 can now take part in the Focus Monument youth photo competition of the German Foundation for Monument Protection."
  10. ↑ Monument snapshot 2021. Photo campaign from May 1st to September 13th. In: tag-des-offenen-denkmals.de. German Foundation for Monument Protection , accessed on June 7, 2021 .
  11. ^ Website of the German Organ Congress. In: orgeltag.de, accessed on June 7, 2021.