Vonderau Museum

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South facade of the Vonderau Museum on Steinweg

The Vonderau Museum is a museum of the city of Fulda and was named after the teacher and local researcher Joseph Vonderau .

One of the main themes of the museum is the prehistory of the district of Fulda , including numerous exhibits on the Celtic settlement of the Fulda area (especially the oppidum Milseburg ).

The museum consists of three departments with the subjects of cultural history , natural history , painting and sculpture as well as a planetarium .

The cross-cultural and restaurants GmbH operates since 1997 in the ground floor of the museum cafe , and from 1999 in the museum basement to Kulturkeller the city of Fulda and the club scene since February 2008. * envy club .

history

The founding of the museum goes back to a foundation of the Fulda cathedral capitular Konrad Hahne in 1875, who was appointed as capitular vicar at that time because of the vacancy caused by the culture war .

"Herr Domkapitular Hahne intends to donate his collection of antiquities, in particular of Fulda origin, to the city of Fulda, if the city of Fulda undertakes to set up the collections in decent pubs, not to sell them and to allow any excess of the entrées to be collected over the maintenance costs for mild purposes, e.g. using local poor institutions "

- Lord Mayor Rank : Memo, February 4, 1875

After these conditions were accepted by the city council and citizens' committee, the museum was set up in the north wing of the city school.

In 1930 the museum was housed in the rooms of the Fulda City Palace, which increased the exhibition capacity. The museum was given its current name on April 2, 1938 on the occasion of the 75th birthday of the local researcher Joseph Vonderau , who headed it from 1897 to 1947.

When the historical rooms in the city palace were renovated and restored in 1968, the largest part of the collection was returned to the north wing of the city school and remained there in a provisional state until 1976, while the remaining holdings on court history (paintings, furniture, Fulda porcelain, glass goblets ) were housed in the renovated rooms in the city palace.

At the end of the 1980s, the conversion of the former city school into a building specially designed for the museum with 4,000 m² of exhibition space began. The opening was on March 8, 1994.

Museum director (selection)

Permanent exhibition

Department of Cultural History

  • Prehistory and early history : Archaeological finds from the Fulda region from the Neolithic to the Iron Age
  • Monastery and sovereignty : Description of the town's history from the foundation of the Fulda Monastery to the formation of the modern town
  • Subjects and citizens : Reconstructed living quarters from the 18th and 19th centuries
  • Urban development and industrialization : Historical handicrafts and industry with exemplary tools and products, including automobiles of the Fuldamobil brand

Natural History Department

  • Geology : East Hesse's geological past with fossilization of plants and animals
  • Ecosystems : Typical habitats in East Hesse are illustrated with dioramas

Painting and Sculpture Department

  • Artists of the region : Sculptures and paintings by the artists who have been working in Fulda and its surroundings since the Middle Ages
  • Lapidarium : architectural sculptures, grave and hall monuments from the Middle Ages to the 20th century

planetarium

The planetarium, which is equipped with fulldome video projection technology, has 35 seats and, with its regular demonstrations, complements the museum's offerings. The program on offer ranges from space excursions to observations of the current Fulda starry sky.

Special and changing exhibitions (selection)

  • The Rhön - History of a Landscape (July 1, 2015 - March 28, 2016)
  • The Frauenberger Kreuzweg and its sculptor Wenzel Marx (1711-1773) (February 11, 2016 - April 10, 2016)
  • ... and it starts with murder. Fulda - Place of Saints (February 25, 2016 - April 17, 2016)
  • Dalí - A Life for Art (May 5, 2016 - July 31, 2016)
  • artist 2016 (August 13, 2016 - September 11, 2016)
  • Cross-section 2016 - "Divided" (September 24, 2016 - October 23, 2016)
  • Of pepper sacks and hunger pangs - stories about food and drink (November 24, 2016 - April 2, 2017)
  • Cross section 2017 - Flow (May 21, 2017 - June 30, 2017)
  • Flying visit to the Berlin Boniface sculpture in the Vonderau Museum (May 4, 2017 - August 20, 2017)
  • Christmas cribs of the Fuldaer Krippenfreunde e. V. (November 25, 2017 - January 7, 2018)
  • I'm Not There - Bob Dylan Exhibition (April 28, 2018 - May 13, 2018)
  • Andrea (s) Gallasini (1681-1766) - From plasterer to princely master builder in Fulda (May 15, 2018 - August 19, 2018)
  • Three Paths of Life - Three Women of the Young Art Circle (September 7, 2018 - October 21, 2018)
  • Fulda acts. Fulda shapes. 1000 years of coin, market and customs law (March 13, 2019 - August 4, 2019)
  • Where are there volcanoes here? - Searching for traces in Vogelsberg (September 15, 2019 - October 31, 2019)
  • Loheland 100 - Lived visions for a new world (September 27, 2019 - January 5, 2020)

literature

(in chronological order)

  • Hessischer Museumsverband (Hrsg.): Museums in Hessen. A handbook of the publicly accessible museums and collections in the state of Hesse. 4th, completely revised and expanded edition. Hessischer Museumsverband, Kassel 1994, ISBN 3-9800508-8-2 , pp. 190–191.
  • Magistrate of the city of Fulda (ed.): Vonderau-Museum - From the old city school to the museum of the region. (= Documentation on the city's history. No. 16). Magistrate of the city of Fulda, Fulda 1994, DNB 943547407 .
  • Klemens Mörmann (ed.): The German museum guide in color. Museums and collections in the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin. Book guild Gutenberg, Frankfurt am Main / Olten / Vienna 1983, DNB 870131540 , p. 360.
  • Christoph Hahn, Siegmar Hohl (ed.): The great museum guide. Collections on art, culture, nature and technology in Germany. Bassermann Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3-8094-5013-9 , p. 207.
  • Rainer Diegelmann ao: Vonderau Museum Fulda - history, permanent exhibitions, events. Parzeller, Fulda 2000, ISBN 978-3-7900-0323-9 .

Web links

Commons : Vonderau Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joseph Vonderau ( Memento from January 5, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). In: Kultur-Fulda.de. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
  2. ^ Joseph Vonderau. In: Rhoen.info (Rhönlexikon). Retrieved December 27, 2019 .
  3. ^ Vonderau Museum Fulda. In: Museum.de. Retrieved December 27, 2019 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 4 "  N , 9 ° 40 ′ 43"  E