Cloth and Technology Textile Museum Neumünster
The Cloth and Technology Textile Museum Neumünster is a museum about the history of textile production in the city of Neumünster in Schleswig-Holstein . The museum, supported by the Museum, Art and Culture Foundation of the City of Neumünster , opened on October 13, 2007 with a revised exhibition in a specially constructed building.
exhibition
On an area of almost 2,000 square meters, the technical development of cloth production in Neumünster from the beginnings to the present is presented using more than 400 exhibits. The original machines on display, including some large industrial machines, are fully functional and shown in action. In addition, the museum shows some archaeological finds on the subject of textile technology, such as the remains of the magnificent Iron Age cloak from Vaalermoor , as well as numerous other exhibits on the industrial and urban history of Neumünster. The museum offers a wide range of educational opportunities with spinning wheels , looms and experimentation and learning stations.
The spinner
spinning wheel
Spinning machine
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history
The museum was founded in 1914 as a municipal museum . The collection initially consisted of the private collection bought by Prof. Max Kirmis a year earlier . The collection, comprising around 600 objects, consisted of ribbons, costume jewelry , household items, silver objects and archaeological finds from the Stone and Bronze Ages . Initially, the collection was housed in two classrooms and the hallways of the school on Holstenstrasse. Kirmis was appointed director of the museum, who expanded the collection in the following years through further purchases of antiques , some of them nationwide . In 1915 the museum was transferred to the sponsorship of the city, but continued to be supported by private donations. After Kirmis' death, Karl Schlabow was appointed director of the museum in November 1926 , who, in accordance with the will of the city council and the museum curator of the province of Schleswig-Holstein Otto Lehmann, developed a clear focus with a focus on a local history and industrial museum . For the further development of the textile technology department, numerous historical weaving devices were purchased and the rapidly growing collection had to be moved to various locations, such as B. some basement rooms of a hospital can be outsourced. Also in 1928, Gustav Schwantes from the Museum of Prehistoric Antiquities in Kiel commissioned Schlabow to scientifically process the Iron Age textile finds in his museum's holdings and to prepare them for a museum presentation, with the result that the museum in Neumünster increasingly specialized in textile archeology. In 1933, the collection was transferred to the former office building in hair on Caspar-von-Saldern-Straße. Due to the textile-archeological research results, numerous textile finds in the museum workshops were reworked and reconstructed with thread-accuracy on weight looms, which were outsourced to the newly created Museum of Germanic Trachtenkunde on the Neumünster monastery island in 1938 . From 1940 the museum almost completely stopped its work due to the war. The museum building and large parts of the holdings were destroyed in 1944 by Allied bombing raids or were lost through subsequent looting, including large parts of the important collection of original finds and rewoven textiles.
In 1947 the museum was rebuilt under the direction of Karl Schlabow. The still existing and damaged weaving devices were repaired and the destroyed textile reconstructions were rewoven by Willi Schramm and other employees in the rooms of Villa Simons in Gartenallee. The first exhibition took place in 1953 at the opening of the textile technical and engineering school (today Theodor-Litt-Schule ) in Parkstrasse. Although there has been no university there in Neumünster since the closure of the textile college in 1978, two student associations (to this day) remind of the good reputation of the college and the quality of its education : the technical association Lanificaria and the fraternity of Suebia . At a second exhibition in 1954, the exhibits were presented to the public in side rooms of the Holstenhallen . This was followed by further intensive research and conservation work on archaeological textile finds from prehistoric times to the early modern period, and almost all of the clothes from the Iron Age known at the time were reconstructed in the museum. The Förderverein Textilmuseum Neumünster eV was founded in 1957 and expanded the collection to include numerous textile machines, especially in the 1980s. In 1962, the collection moved to the Neumünster Textile Museum in the spacious rooms of the Grausau Cloth House at Parkstrasse 17.
In 1963 the textile engineer Klaus Tidow took over the management of the museum. The orientation of the museum towards a textile and industrial museum was constantly being discussed and adapted, and the exhibition was supplemented by operational original machines and, where these did not exist, by replicas that were true to the original. In 1985 the association's statutes were changed to bring the industrial history of Neumünster more to the fore in the museum. In 2000, the city administration decided to transfer the museum's collection and association to a newly established foundation, and planning began for a new building for the museum at Kleinflecken in the center of Neumünster. In 2002 the old textile museum was closed. In 2004, the City of Neumünster and the New Textile Museum Association founded the Museum, Art and Culture Foundation of the City of Neumünster to support the museum. In 2010/2011 the building of the old textile museum was demolished and a new psychiatric day clinic was built on this property, which has been operating since 2012.
meaning
The textile museum became known nationwide through its extensive studies of historical textile finds from moors , graves, settlement and latrine excavations , as well as through numerous publications on textile archeology in Europe. The museum gained international recognition, especially under Karl Schlabow and Klaus Tidow, and was one of the most important institutes in the research area of textile archeology. It built up extensive collections of historical textile finds, most of which were incorporated into the holdings of the Gottorf Castle Archaeological Museum in Schleswig. In 1981, the North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles was launched at the Neumünster Textile Museum, which promotes the international exchange of experience among textile archaeologists.
ladder
- Max Kirmis: 1914-1926
- Karl Schlabow: 1926–1963
- Rudolf Ullemeyer: 1963–1976
- Klaus Tidow: 1976-2002
- Sabine Vogel: 2005–2009
- Karin Ruhmöller (provisional): 2009–2010
- Astrid Frevert: since 2010
literature
- Thomas Kronenberg, Sabine Vogel, Karin Ruhmöller, among others: Cloth + Technology, Living and Weaving in Neumünster . Wachholtz, Neumünster 2007, ISBN 978-3-529-06131-8 (exhibition catalog).
- Irma Schlabow, Karl Schlabow: Guide through the textile museum Neumünster . Friends of the Textile Museum Neumünster, Neumünster 1978, ISBN 3-529-01704-3 (guide through the former museum).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rolf Ziehm: 60th birthday: Neumünster does not have a university, but a fraternity. In: Holsteinischer Courier . April 5, 2016. Retrieved July 11, 2016 .
- ^ Klaus Tidow: From the "Städtisches Museum" to the Textile and Industry Museum in Neumünster . In: Silke Göttsch, Kai Detlev Sievers (Hrsg.): Kieler Blätter zur Volkskunde . No. XIX . Mühlau, 1987, ISSN 0341-8030 , p. 151-169 .
Coordinates: 54 ° 4 ′ 17.7 ″ N , 9 ° 58 ′ 52.3 ″ E