Augustinermuseum

German wordplay: Everyone wants to come vs Everyone [is] welcome

Last Friday, the "new" Augustinermuseum was opened.

In a document dated December 16, 1278, Count Egino II transferred ownership of a site in the narrow old town between Salzstraße and the southern city wall to the mendicant order Ordo Sancti Augustini (OSA), the Augustinian hermits.  

At the bottom of the excerpt from the Sickinger Plan, the Augustinian monastery along Salzstraße. At the top, in the middle, is Oberlinden; along the northern city wall is Konviktstraße; and on the right is the heavily elevated Schwabentor. Note the Bächle that run down the middle of the street.

Until 1912, the nave of the former monastery served as the municipal theater.

The renovation began in 2004 and was expected to take eight years. The initial cost for the Augustinremuseum was estimated at 23 million euros. Due to many structural surprises and mishaps, the renovation ultimately lasted until 2026 and cost 95 million euros.

       

It was worth it. Take a look at the renovated cloister.

Yesterday morning, I paid a quick visit and went to, where else?, the newly designed section on Freiburg's history.

The eye-catcher when entering the historical exhibition is the model of the Minster Church construction.

Here are more first impressions.

August von Bayer: The Master Builder (Erwin von Steinbach?) Contemplating His Work on the Steeple.

Freiburg as a fortress in 1693. South side

Sebastian Vauban had transformed the Medeval city, which at that time belonged to the French crown, into a Baroque fortress with mighty walls and bastions as part of the belt of fortifications protecting France's borders.

This house is in God's hands. It is named after the image of Mary.

House sign "To the Virgin Mary." Before house numbers were introduced in Freiburg in 1760, signs like these helped people find their way around.

Soldiers of the Freiburg militia

When French revolutionary troops pushed across the Rhine after 1789, citizen militias formed in Baden to defend the country. From left to right: members of the artillery, Freiburg citizen infantry, and cavalry corps.

In evil times. Advertising enamel panel for “Der Alemanne,” the Nazi newspaper that, toward the end of the war, remained, due to paper shortages, the only daily in Freiburg.

Pharmacy bottles from the Löwenapotheke at Bertoldsbrunnen. They melted and deformed in the fire after the RAF bombed Freiburg on November 27, 1944.

After the war ended, the US organization CARE sent food parcels to Europe. This parcel contained, among other things, cans of coffee and powdered milk.

The playground at the Augustiner Museum in early March sunshine, where Red Baraön spent many hours with his grandchildren

Men at work

Not everything is finished yet. Here, stonemasons are paving one of the museum's inner courtyards.

 
Red Baron is looking forward to his next visit to the Augustinermuseum

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