Vineum Lake Constance
The vineum bodensee is a museum of the city of Meersburg and presents the cultural history of wine in Meersburg and on Lake Constance . It is located in Vorburggasse 11 in Meersburg's upper town and was opened on July 29, 2016. The building is a former Heilig-Geist-Spital , in which the doctor and magnetizer Franz Anton Mesmer died in 1815 . The vineum bodensee is fully supported by the city of Meersburg and is assigned to the Culture & Museum department. The vineum bodensee is barrier-free.
Areas
ground floor
The entrance area, the Torkelhalle, is dominated by the so-called Heiliggeist- Torkel from 1607. With this wine press, up to 4,000 kilograms of grapes could be pressed in 24 hours. The functional torkel was in operation until 1922 and is one of the oldest and largest wine torkels in Europe. A film projection on the Torkel shows every half hour how the large technical monument works. In the neighboring film room, well-known winemakers from the Lake Constance region report on their special moment of transformation when grape juice becomes wine. In another room on the ground floor, wine is shown as a way of life for the 21st century: Extraordinary wine labels, decanters , glasses, packaging, corkscrews, wine stoppers, cosmetics and items of clothing show the world of wine design. In the last room on the ground floor, selected wines from Lake Constance winemakers from Germany , Liechtenstein , Austria and Switzerland can be tasted. Using a chip card, you can take samples from a wine dispenser .
Mezzanine
There are cloakrooms and toilets on the mezzanine.
Second story
The opening room shows the oldest labeled wine bottle in the Lake Constance region, it dates from 1865 and is on loan from the princes of Waldburg-Wolfegg. The adjoining room gathers in a wall installation from each of the 101 wine-producing countries in the world a wine bottle representing their country. Numbers and facts about the global world of wine can be called up via a touchscreen , for example the recent spread of wine or the fifteen largest wine producers worldwide. The second room of the tour explains the so-called terroir , the natural conditions that have an influence on Lake Constance wine. A portrait in the hallway commemorates the doctor and magnetizer Franz Anton Mesmer, who moved into living quarters in the Heilig-Geist-Spital in autumn 1814 and died here on March 5, 1815. His grave can be visited at the Meersburg cemetery . Another room shows a photo installation by the Brazilian photo artist Marcos Alberti under the motto Rausch und Ritual . According to the saying: “The first glass is about food, the second is about love and the third is all upside down”, he photographed friends in his photo project “three glasses wine” after enjoying one, two and three glasses of wine . The role that wine plays in the religious and ritual area is shown by exhibits from the Catholic Church in Meersburg and two statues of the patron saint of winegrowers, Saint Urban. Urban I. of Rome or Urban of Langres .
In the next room, two loans from the Meersburg City Archives, a cadastral map and an Urbar - the first comprehensive land register for Meersburg - of the "Rebstalls Mörspurg", show the ownership and employment relationships in Meersburg around 1700. The then Prince-Bishop of Konstanz, Marquard Rudolf von Rodt , had all vineyards, forests, meadows and fields recorded in this way in order to get a better overview of the taxes and to eliminate the inequalities in the tax assessment. In this land register, all Meersburg vineyards are listed for the first time with their owners and the loads, sorted according to location and quality. As a municipal museum , the vineum bodensee is in possession of the oldest site map with qualifications for the German-speaking area. Four films provide vivid information about the ownership structure in the 18th century, about the working conditions of the workers in the vineyard, about the complex tax and tax system and about the historical location names , some of which still exist today. In the room with the motto “scent of wine” you can guess the aromas that can be found in Lake Constance wine from around 20 amphorae . A large resource model in another room shows how Lake Constance functioned as a hub of the economy throughout the Middle Ages and well into modern times. Depending on the enormous extent of wine production on the lake, grain from Upper Swabia , wood, preferably from the Bregenz Forest, and cow dung had to be brought to the lake in just as large quantities. For example, up to 10 million vines were exchanged annually in the entire lake wine region. Historical photographs from around 1880 to 1920 impressively show the foothills of this complex economic system. The lake wines were mainly sold in Vorarlberg , Zurich , Black Forest , Upper Swabia and Allgäu .
In another room, historical drinking events are presented. By means of a film installation, the visitor becomes part of the drinking event, which is projected onto a table. You can experience impressively how wine was used as a remedy in the Middle Ages , how people kept "healthy drinking" at the stately table, how things went in the inns and what drinking rituals a so-called drinking room society had. The latter is shown in more detail in a small, adjoining room. This is where the society of the 101 citizens of Meersburg has found its museum home. The "101ers", as they are called in Meersburg, are one of the oldest drinking room companies in Germany. Its secular and religious roots go back to the 15th century, and it still exists today as the society of 101 citizens of Meersburg. The traditions represented are freedom of assembly, freedom of expression, Christian values, social security and citizenship. The most important devotional objects of society are exhibited: The apple bear from 1632 carries an apple that is peppered with coins as a donation. Small nameplates of the journeymen who died last year are hung on the candlestick from the 19th century in the shape of a tree. The Society's 1660 cup is used in the annual ceremonial New Year's drink. The room regulations of the "Gesellschaft im Truben" from 1599 are also on display.
The penultimate room of the tour shows the social changes in the 19th and early 20th centuries and what effects they had on wine production and thus on the living conditions of the people at the lake. As a result of the secularization , the wineries of the Prince-Bishop of Konstanz and the Salem Monastery are transferred to today's state winery Meersburg and the Margrave of Baden . The many small, private winegrowers were able to survive through an amalgamation in cooperatives or winegrowing associations. The Hagnau winegrowers' association , the oldest wine-growing association in Baden, was founded in neighboring Hagnau by pastor Heinrich Hansjakob . A short time later, in 1884, the Meersburger Winzerverein was founded by Karl Benz from Meersburg.
In the final room of the tour on the first floor, from which the elevator then leads down again, a so-called ampelography in the form of a vine forest is set up as an installation. It is one of the most famous ampelographs by the French Pierre Viala and Viktor Veromel . The grape varieties known around 1900 are shown on 500 color lithographs.
Attic
The top floor of the Heilig-Geist-Spital houses a 300 m² event hall under the historic roof beams. a. is used for historical special exhibitions and for cultural events. The large special exhibition on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Franz Anton Mesmer's death took place here from April 2015 to September 2015. The hall can also be rented for seminars and conferences. Since July 2017 the cabaret series "Culture under the roof" with music and cabaret has been taking place here.
The Heilig-Geist-Spital building
The early Baroque Heilig-Geist-Spital Konstanz in Meersburg is characterized by its high, ground-level torkel room. This and the other houses on the eastern side of Vorburggasse stand with their outer front on the walls of the city fortifications. The hospital coat of arms is located above the portal. The dove above the double cross indicates the Holy Spirit. The abbreviation SP means hospital, M means Meersburg. The house was used as the hospital's beneficiary home. The Heilig-Geist-Spital, as it is presented today, was built around 1680 and was therefore not destroyed by the major fire in Vorburggasse in 1605.
Web links
- Website of the Vineum Bodensee
- Vineum Bodensee at meersburg.de
- Film by the State Office for Monument Preservation Baden-Württemberg about the history of the house, the careful restoration and its transformation into a museum on the history of viticulture in the years 2013–2016
Individual evidence
- ^ Former information board with data on the house where Franz Anton Mesmer died
- ↑ Krämer, Christine: Lords of the wine - workers in the vineyard. The Meersburger Rebstallurbar from 1700 in: Knubben / Schmauder (HG): Seewein - Weinkultur am Bodensee, Ostfildern 2016, p. 109 ff.
- ↑ New series in Vineum. In: Südkurier from July 18, 2017. Author abbreviation (sk).
- ^ Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg (Ed.): Ortskernatlas Baden-Württemberg. City of Meersburg, Lake Constance district. Stuttgart 1988. ISBN 3-89021-009-0 . Pp. 15, 36.
- ^ Diethard Nowak: Small monuments in Meersburger Landen. Meersburg, second expanded edition 2014. p. 195, section: Spitalwappen am "Mesmerhaus", Vorburggasse 11.
- ↑ Museumsverein Meersburg (ed.): Meersburg traces. Meersburg 2007. ISBN 978-3-86136-124-4 . P. 118.
Coordinates: 47 ° 41 ′ 37.4 " N , 9 ° 16 ′ 23.2" E