Association for Homeland Security 1922 Kranenburg
The Association for Heimatschutz 1922 eV Kranenburg is a non-profit association that pursues cultural interests in the local context of the municipality of Kranenburg (Niederrhein) .
history
The Kranenburg Association for Homeland Protection (short: Heimatverein) was founded in 1922 with the aim of saving the town windmill built around 1400 from final demolition and setting up a local history museum there. The six founding members were Gerhard Pauli , Josef van Bebber , the two pastors Theodor Schmitz and Karl Rosenkaimer , the pharmacist Josef Kreutzberg and Heinrich Umsorg .
In 1932 the local history museum was opened in the restored mill tower. In the war winter of 1944 and 1945 the tower was only slightly damaged, but the inventory was badly damaged. In 1949 the museum was temporarily reopened.
In 1961 the Katharinenhof Museum was also set up in the former monastery building on Mühlenstrasse; In addition to the Kasimir Hagen collection in Cologne, the art treasures recovered after the war from the parish church of St. Peter and Paul were shown here. The exhibition in the mill tower was subsequently redesigned and housed the focus on "religious folk art". Since the 1970s, the Katharinenhof has increasingly been transformed into an art museum; mainly through the support of the Kranenburg art collector Hans van der Grinten . With the addition of the Katharinenhof community center, the museum received additional exhibition space in 1984.
In recent years, the Kranenburg museum landscape has been redesigned under the leadership of the Association for Homeland Security. While the Katharinenhof Museum presents art, the mill tower has housed the local history permanent exhibition "History in the Tower" since 2006. In the so-called “town barn”, rural and handicraft tools are shown.
The association organizes excursions on a regular basis; including the annual open monument day. He also endeavors to publish historical writings; In 1984 the Kranenburger Heimatbuch was published, in 2006 the extensive catalog and essay volume “Geschichte im Turm” (History in the Tower).
The association currently has 159 members.