Wilhelm Fabry Museum

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Wilhelm Fabry Museum
Hilden Wilhelm Fabry Museum Aeskulap-Banane.jpg
Aesculapian banana on the gable wall of the museum
Data
place Hilden
Art
City history Hilden, medical history, industrial history
opening 17th September 1989
operator
City of Hilden
management
Sandra evening
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-325413

The Wilhelm Fabry Museum is a city history museum in the city of Hilden ( Mettmann district ) with a focus on medical and industrial history . The museum is named after the surgeon Wilhelm Fabry (* 1560 in Hilden; † 1634 in Bern ). Fabry, also known by his Latinized name 'Guilelmus Fabricius Hildanus', is considered to be one of the founders of scientific surgery . He was born just a few hundred meters from the location of the museum named after him. The museum is a member of the European Association of Museums of the History of Medical Sciences (EAMHMS).

History of the museum

The first efforts to set up a local history museum in Hilden arose as early as 1924. In 1927, the first exhibits were shown in a classroom at the Steinhofstrasse elementary school, today Walter-Wiederhold-Strasse kindergarten. In 1933 the museum moved to Elberfelder Straße 24, where an exhibition area of ​​120 square meters was available. This building had to give way to the new building on Berliner Straße in January 1972. The stocks were moved to several schools shortly before the building was demolished. Only the Fabry collection was from now on exhibited in the secondary school of the same name.

It was not until twelve years later, in January 1984, when the “Friends of the Museum of the City of Hilden eV” was founded, now our Hilden eV, efforts to rebuild the museum. In 1985, members of the association discovered the Vogelsang grain distillery on Benrather Strasse, which was closed in 1979, and suggested the site to the city as the location of a new museum. The city council and administration agreed and the Rhineland Regional Council also gave a positive vote. After developing a new museum concept and extensive renovation work, the museum was opened in 1989. The city of Hilden is responsible for the museum. The “Unser Hilden” association, which has the history of the city of Hildens as its theme, provides support, in particular for events and the procurement of exhibits.

Grain distillery and exhibition rooms

The museum area consists of two buildings. The historic grain distillery is located in a brick building completed in 1867. The former business and storage rooms of the grain distillery were converted into exhibition rooms, a lecture room and rooms for the museum management and administration.

Grain distillery

On March 11, 1867, Johann Peter Vogelsang (* September 7, 1806, † February 26, 1878), originally Ackerer, received the concession for his distillery , the construction of which he had already started in 1864 behind his house on Benrather Strasse. A fire caused great damage in 1875, but the distillery continued to flourish. After the death of the company founder, his sons Hermann Vogelsang (* September 6, 1849 - December 8, 1907) and Peter Vogelsang continued the business. As a result, there were several changes of ownership, at times also leases, which also resulted in corresponding name changes. The last company name before the company closed in 1979 was "Vogelsang & Co., formerly JP Vogelsang" and Wolfgang Gymnich the company owner.

A special feature of the grain distillery is one of the oldest, still functional, horizontal single-piston centrifugal regulators - steam engines in the Rhineland, built in 1876 with the factory number 76 from Kirberg & Hüls in Hilden. Until 1979, the steam engine drove the company's machines via a transmission , including a grist mill, a sack elevator and the agitator in the mash tun. Today it is operated by an electric motor. In the completely preserved distillery, all the work steps for the production of alcohol in a grain distillery from around 1900 can still be traced.

  • Grain distillery

  • Boiler house

  • Steam engine

  • Mash tun and transmission

Showrooms

The museum shows numerous writings of Wilhelm Fabry and his contemporaries in first editions of the 17th century, portrait graphics and historical surgical instruments in alternation with other exhibitions (art, medical, local and regional history). The barrel room of the museum is regularly used for lectures, often in connection with exhibitions. Children and young people between the ages of 3 and 18 who live or go to school in Hilden have the opportunity to borrow pictures from the "Bildwechsel" children's and youth art library set up in 1998.

  • Exhibition building of the Wilhelm Fabry Museum

  • Entrance to the museum

  • Banana by Thomas Baumgärtel

Exhibitions

1996

  • Mute witnesses to their suffering
  • Hundertwasser . Graphics and objects
  • Down the drain in Hilden. Old and new from Itter

1997

  • Hilden as I see it
  • Memento mori. Drawings by Walter Hanel
  • Rhenish psychiatry in the 19th century
  • Salvador Dali. Dante - The Divine Comedy
  • On the way to Santiago de Compostela. Impressions from the Way of St. James

1998

  • Matthias Hintz. Man in things
  • Giant steps . A jazz story
  • Iwashita Tetsuji. photos
  • City and Health. On the development of the health system in Hilden
  • René Carcan retrospective . Drawings, prints, sculptures and jewelry
  • Searching for traces in sand and loess. Voluntary preservation of monuments in Düsseldorf and in the Mettmann district

1999

  • Hello my heart!
  • Objects of the children's art spectacle 1999
  • Three years of Hilden Jazz Days . A photo exhibition
  • Midwifery yesterday and today. On the culture of childbirth through three centuries
  • requiem. Painting on canvas and paper - Bettina Ballendat
  • “Nobody should say nothing happened”. Volker Krämer, Gabriel Grüner - A photo exhibition
  • Nothing like trouble

2000

  • News from death. Works from the graphic collection 'Mensch und Tod' of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
  • 6th Biennial Small Sculpture Plus (also in the Hilden artist house H6)
  • Heard already Interactive exhibition
  • Homeopathy. A medicine and its history
  • 175 years of post in Hilden
  • Show me an angel!

2001

  • Jerusalem. Seen, felt, photographed by Harry Weber
  • Black Death and Amikäfer. Biological weapons and their history
  • Young artists present the results of the children's art week
  • in the whole world. The exciting story of the "pocket piano" and "squeeze table"
  • Views - Views. Hans-Joachim Uthke
  • Doctor's little helpers. From fetish to high-tech medicine
  • Before life and after death. Drawings, lithographs and printing stones by Boris Fröhlich

2002

  • Icons on paper. Graphic from Mount Athos - 800 years Hilandar Monastery
  • Incisions. Yvonne Kendall and Henning Eichinger
  • Shadow steps - traces of life. Drawings and watercolors by Joachim Klinger
  • "Unscrupulous - conscientious ..." Human experiments in the concentration camp - An exhibition by the Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine, Erlangen-Nuremberg
  • Wilhelm Fabry Prize Winners 2000: Arno Bojak and I-Shu Chen
  • Is it all just a dream?

2003

  • Forced labor in Rhineland and Westphalia 1939–1945
  • Moving landscapes. The Düsseldorf School of Painting - The park of the artists' association Malkasten. The green backdrop of the artist festivals
  • Art on prescription
  • Samaritan. Doctor and patient

2004

  • What was called life. Everyday life in the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp 1939–1945
  • Extensions. Prostheses - from replacement to extension
  • Jazz. Hans-Joachim Uthke - drawings and etchings
  • Surgery in the Early Modern Era. The Wilhelm Fabry Museum shows treasures from its medical history collection
  • Little table set you! Eating is a need, enjoying is a pleasure

2005

  • Max Volmer . A researcher from Hilden
  • Ravages of time. Exhibition on the history of dentistry
  • Volker Krämer. Homage to a star photographer
  • Fitness. Beauty comes from outside
  • Erika Bopp. Creation myths - creation legends
  • BRAVO turns 50! An exhibition on the history of youth culture in Germany

2006

  • Home Alchemy. Yvonne Kendall and Henning Eichinger - pictures, objects and sculptures
  • Transparent dialogue. Karl Krüll and Franz-Josef Hehl - drawings and painting
  • Blue Note Cover Design. Jazz record design from 1956–1967 by Reid Miles - An exhibition as part of the 11th Hilden Jazz Days
  • Time window. Archaeological finds from Düsseldorf and the Mettmann district
  • Wait a moment, you are so beautiful!

2007

  • The age in art
  • I beg your pardon? About bad hearing and antique hearing aids
  • Dissected medicine. Diagnostic considerations with glue, pen, needle and pen by Hans-Joachim Uthke
  • Joachim Klinger . My pictures - companions. Watercolors and gouaches 1951–2006
  • Interior views. Virtual body images - On the fascination of the healthy and the aesthetics of the pathological

2008

  • Of knives, saws and pliers that could heal. Instruments and books from the medical history collection
  • Take Jazz - emotional and live. Pictures with jazz musicians in action by Ingrid Müller-Marx
  • Arrived in Hilden. Stories of the move
  • Wax - picture - body. Moulages in medicine
  • Pain. Images of people

2009

2010

  • Fabry - Eichinger: Medicine and Aesthetics
  • Gods in white. Doctor myths in art
  • Wilhelm Fabry - personality, work, worldview, network, patient
  • Lived, loved, smoked, drank - and then hope for everything from the doctor!

2011

  • Materia Magica - the skin we live in. Works by Isabel Kneisner
  • It happened in Hilden. Jazz photos by Zbigniew Lewandowski
  • On the trail of the brain: thinking - remembering - forgetting

2012

  • Women - sin - death
  • From the crime scene to the laboratory. Forensic doctors reveal

2013

  • Death, the believer, the rain - they always come inconvenient - drawings and etchings by Hans-Joachim Uthke
  • Body and Soul. Inspired by Famous Jazz Compositions. Dietrich Rünger
  • Step by step. The birth of the modern shoe
  • The dose makes the poison: pleasure and addiction - healing and decay

2014

  • BALNEA - architectural history of the bathroom
  • Wilhelm Fabry - personality, work, worldview, network, patient

2015

  • Front 14/18 - The First World War in 3D
  • Jazz improvisations by Hans-Joachim Uthke
  • "The otter is a cunning and nasty animal" - Nemo and his relatives then and now

2016

  • Body 2.0 - About the technical expandability of humans

2017

  • Wounded in the field
  • Mostly cheerful - works by Joachim Klinger
  • The surgeon Wilhelm Fabry, born in Hilden in 1560

2018

  • Coming full circle

2019

  • Francisco de Goya and 'The Horrors of War

2020

  • Thanks mouse!

See also

literature

  • Hajo Jahn : Hildens Janusköpfiges Museum, lovable domicile for knowledge & wine spirit , in: Journal 10, year book of the Mettmann district 1990/91, Bergisch Gladbach 1991, pp. 48–56
  • Bernd Morgner: The historic grain distillery - industrial monument and museum , museum and local history association Hilden, 1995
  • Wilhelm Fabry , 1560–1634, surgeon, visionary, cosmopolitan, Rotary Club Hilden-Haan, 2010, p. 28f.

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm-Fabry-Museum Hilden  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eckart Roloff and Karin Henke-Wendt: Famous as a surgeon, anatomist and author - and this woman too! (The Wilhelm Fabry Museum Hilden) In: Visit your doctor or pharmacist. A tour through Germany's museums for medicine and pharmacy. Volume 1, Northern Germany. Verlag S. Hirzel, Stuttgart 2015, pp. 139-141, ISBN 978-3-7776-2510-2 .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Wennig: History of Hilden industry low Bergische posts, Volume 30, p 180
  3. ↑ To whom the geprant wine is good or bad ... , On the cultural history of the Brantt wine, catalog for the opening exhibition of the Wilhelm Fabry Museum in Hilden / Historische Kornbrennerei, Hilden, 1989

Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 5.2 "  N , 6 ° 55 ′ 39.4"  E