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"Patenschaftsmuseum Goldap"
Collection on the history of a former province
The ‘Patenschaftsmuseum Goldap in East Prussia’ displays an extensive collection on 400 years of history as well as cultural and social life in the district of Goldap up to 1945. The extended exhibition ‘Goldap and Stade after 1945’ documents the relations between Poland and Germany in the post-war period up to Poland’s accession to the EU using the example of the two towns of Goldap and Stade.
In accordance with the terms of the partnership, it is intended to keep alive the knowledge and memory of East Prussia, which was German until 1945.
The exhibition
The approximately 1,500 exhibits centre on the administrative district and the town of Goldap in East Prussia. They mainly include documents, photos and everyday objects and a few archival items that arrived in Germany around 1944/45 in the luggage of displaced persons.
The exhibition primarily focuses on an ‘East Prussia information space’, the ‘History of the churches and schools’, ‘Agricultural life’, ‘Romincka’, the ‘Fate of the Goldau population in 1944/45’ and the post-war period, from the ‘Fate of the refugees’ to ‘Temporary homecoming and first rapprochements’ and ‘Youth encounters’.
The library, which centres on East Prussia and German history, is open access. Genealogists will find extensive specialised literature. Video clips of contemporary witness accounts can be viewed.
Good to know...
The ‘Patenschaftsmuseum Goldap in East Prussia’ is run jointly by the district of Stade and the Kreisgemeinschaft Goldap in Ostpreußen e.V. (Goldap District Community in East Prussia). A sponsorship with the Kreisgemeinschaft Goldap has existed since 1952.
The museum in Stade has been run in its current form since 1987 and moved into the premises in Harsefelder Straße in 2011.
"Patenschaftsmuseum Goldap"
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Eheleute Trucewitz
Harsefelder Straße 44a, 21680 Stade
04142 3552