It’s not just about “faster, higher, further” and it doesn’t just focus on sports fans, but also those who don’t like sports: the Franconian Museum at Marienberg Fortress is showing an extraordinary sports exhibition with many background stories until October 16th.
The search for special stories from Lower Franconian sport began in January 2021 with calls in the press and on social networks, reported curator Daniela Kühnel. 30 contributions could be considered from around 100 submissions from private individuals, associations and museums. They show the whole spectrum of the sport.
Waiver of winners’ podiums
The exhibition concept deliberately dispenses with winners’ podiums and long rows of medals and certificates. Instead, a living room, a changing room, a sports field and a clubhouse were recreated. Kühnel: “Four locations where sport is watched, practiced, celebrated and discussed.” There is a comfortable armchair in the living room. Trophies that have been won stand in the cupboard, memorabilia greet you from the wall. If you want, you can watch stories of an underwater rugby player, a bobsleigh athlete, a marksman, a fistball player and two tap dancers on the TV set.
The most popular excuses
In the locker room, stories and objects are presented in labeled lockers. At activity stations, you can guess the sounds of sports, but you can also smell what physical exertion smells like. On a pinboard, the best excuses are asked for what doing sports is all about. Who knows something more original than “I don’t have time”, “I have back” or “I’ll start tomorrow”?
A friendship scarf to knit with
Different sports surfaces are also shown on the sports field. A rattling ball for blind football can also be tried out. In the clubhouse, where the “third half” is often celebrated, there is also a table where you can play a game of memory or knit a friendship scarf.
The dark side of sport
The downsides of sport are also not forgotten: corruption, abuse, doping and homophobia are addressed. There is information material on these topics with references to contact persons.
Kühnel and Anna Kraft (Head of Museum in the Lower Franconia district) are proud that the sports exhibition is a successful, inclusive project. All texts are short and written in simple language. They are all also available as a barrier-free PDF for download on the Internet. The exhibition is also accessible for wheelchair users; tactile activity station and signs in Braille help the visually impaired. A free accompanying brochure is available for all visitors to the exhibition.
The special exhibition was created for the fifth time through a collaboration between the Lower Franconian Cultural Foundation of the Lower Franconia district and the Museum für Franken. The show was shown with great success in June and July in the Museums Schloss Aschach.
opening hours of the Museum of Franconia at Marienberg Fortress: Tuesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission: Adults five euros, concessions four euros, groups (15 or more people) four euros, Sundays for everyone just one euro, children and young people (0-17 years) always free, association ticket for museum admission and fortress tour seven euros.
Some exhibition themes
– To be a role model: Marin Loschert from Steinfeld about his sports teacher Heinz-Herbert Kreh.
– Hiking Trophies: The international hiking days of SV Greußenheim.
– Olympic flame: The Ebern gymnastics club carried the torch from Gädheim to Schonungen.
– Self-made brand: Soap box race in Marktheidenfeld.
– New sports equipment: The gym wheel was invented in Schönau an der Brend in 1925.
– Olympia-Gold: Martin Karl, Rudi Eckstein, Toni Rom and Willy Menne from the Würzburg Rowing Club won the 1936 Games.
– Championship: Obertheres hosted the Bavarian Marathon Championships in 1955 and 1958.
– Karate stronghold: A Hawaiian introduced a new sport to TG Schweinfurt in 1962.
– Gymnastics father Jahn as a role model: At the end of 1863, the still young Münnerstadt club got a gym.
– Recyclinghaus: At the end of the 1960s, Otto Memmel built an apiary from the former changing rooms at the Fladung outdoor pool.
– Equal rights: The Würzburg President of the World Women’s Hockey Federation made women’s hockey Olympic in 1980.
– The Divided Village: Helmstadt had two rival football clubs for several decades.
– “Bared Bodies”: In Laufach, the pastor punished young people who wanted to swim from the pulpit.
– Blind trust: There is also football for the visually impaired at the Vital Sports Club in Würzburg.
– Fistball stronghold: Sport still plays an important role in Segnitz today.
– Schlosswiese sports field: In Kleinheubach, the royal family continued to help the athletes.
– Sports friendship: Esselbach has maintained relations with Austria since the 1960s.
– Holzskiwhich the Roth family built themselves in Silberhof/Rhön more than 100 years ago.
– The unusual sleigh the brothers Valentin and Georg Demar from Großbardorf.
– World Champion: The wrestling world champion Ludwig Ress, born in Hollstadt in 1891.
– strength athletes Helmut Schellhorn from ETSV Würzburg.
– The 88-year-old gymnast Heinrich Schmitt from Ebern was the oldest among 60,000 athletes at the German Gymnastics Festival in Hanover in 1978.
– Seven red card at the 1990 soccer game between SV Gelchsheim and TSV Obernbreit.
– Kleinplastik “Start” by the sculptor Fried Heuler (1899-1959).
– Good teamwork in the junior guard of the Veitshöcheimer Carneval Club, which became German champion in show dance in 2001.
– Würzburg double victory by the fencers of the Würzburg gymnastics community in 1980.
– The Tower fencing bookwhich originated in Würzburg around 1300, is an important source for the Würzburg association “Historical Fencing eV”.
– A charred chair from the clubhouse of the Ebern gymnastics club, which burned down in 1988 but was rebuilt.
– Fit for the future: The outdoor area of TV Marktsteft, which was renovated in 2010/11.
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