Tin figure hermitage

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Tin figure hermitage
Entrance area on the first floor of the Schwabentor
Entrance area on the first floor of the Schwabentor
Data
place Freiburg in Breisgau
opening 1965
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-048819

The Zinnfigurenklause is a voluntarily run museum on the history of the German southwest in the Schwabentor in Freiburg im Breisgau .

history

Arthur-Andreas Lehmann, a trained book printer and member of the “Burgen der Heimat” working group, had been collecting pewter figures and true-to-original models of castles for years before he opened his pewter figure cave opposite the Gasthaus Schiff in early May 1961 . There, historical events were recreated with the help of pewter figures and explained with pictures through some dioramas . The Lord Mayor of Freiburg, Eugen Keidel , made the first floor of the Schwabentor available to Lehmann as an exhibition space in 1969. At that time the Schwabentor was unused and in need of renovation. The second floor of the gate tower was also used later.

The city bought the twelve dioramas that Lehmann had made by 1985. Lehmann managed the Zinnfigurenklause on behalf of the city between 1985 and 1989. Andreas Müller, who had represented Lehmann on a trip from 1987, took over the management of the museum on a temporary basis after his death in 1989 at the age of 80. On November 2, 1989, he founded the non-profit circle of friends and supporters of the Zinnfigurenklause in Schwabentor eV, which he chaired. In December 1989, the city gave him responsibility for the collection. The museum does not pay rent for the rooms and has lighting, cleaning and heating provided by the city. The Zinnfigurenklause is independent of the municipal museums, which, however, have a seat on the extended board of the friends' association.

After Andreas Müller retired in 2008, Volkmar Vogt, head of the Archive of Social Movements , took over the management of the Zinnfigurenklause.
Martin Wiebel is the 1st chairman of the Friends and Supporters of the Zinnfigurenklause in Schwabentor eV, and Volkmar Vogt is on the extended board.

The Social Movements Archive has been collecting print media about the New Social Movement since 1983 .

collection

Castles on the second floor

The museum's collection consists of 9,000 figures in 21 dioramas , including the battle of Sempach (1,150 figures alone) in 1386, the Swabian or Swiss War of 1499, the Peasants' War in the Black Forest in 1525, the siege of the Küssaburg / Oberlauchringen and events in the Baden region Represent the revolution of 1848 in Freiburg and the siege of 1713 in the War of the Spanish Succession . There are also dioramas with castles of the Upper and Upper Rhine, for the pursuit of witches and for the interrogation of Martin Luther in Worms . Many figures are threatened by the tin plague and occasionally need to be refilled and painted.

The museum is only open in the summer months (3rd Saturday in May to 3rd October ).

literature

  • Hans-Dieter Fronz: History in Dioramas. The Zinnfigurenklause in the Freiburg Schwabentor . In: Regio-Magazin 17, 2000, 5, pp. 28–32.
  • Hans-Dieter Fronz: Tin figures - (not) a children's toy . In: In Baden-Württemberg 2002, 2, pp. 40–43.
  • Andreas Müller: The municipal tower museum in Freiburg. The tin figure hermitage in the Schwabentor; Museum of history in dioramas with pewter figures . In: Regional 6, 2002, pp. 19-20.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Freiburg: Retrospect 1961 , Badische Zeitung, May 10, 2011, accessed on November 23, 2013.
  2. ^ Culture committee of the city administration of Freiburg: Resolution KA-08/007 from the 3rd meeting , May 8, 2008, accessed on July 1, 2012.
  3. ↑ Julia Littmann: Freiburg: The story goes on from below , Badische Zeitung, May 17, 2008, accessed on July 1, 2012.
  4. ↑ Julia Littmann: Freiburg: Schwabentor: New historical scene in the Zinnfigurenklause , Badische Zeitung, June 1, 2012, accessed on July 8, 2012.

Web links

Commons : Zinnfigurenklause  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 34 ″  N , 7 ° 51 ′ 15 ″  E