Open Monument Day 2023: Tips for the North | NDR.de – Culture

Around 6,000 sites open on Open Monument Day their doors. In 2023, Germany’s largest cultural event will celebrate its 30th anniversary. Guided tours, concerts, readings and children’s events invite you to trace the past – even in monuments that are otherwise inaccessible.

The motto “Talent Monument” is intended to honor those who work in the background, maintain monuments or recognize them as worthy of a monument. The offer is huge and extremely diverse. Anyone who would like to take part in a guided tour or trip should inform themselves in advance: many offers require prior registration.

Lower Saxony: Between rural life and industrialization

You can immerse yourself in the history of Lower Saxony in palaces, fortresses, churches, farms and former factories. How did farmers live in the Altes Land in the 18th century? The Altländer Haus in Stade, a marsh farmhouse from 1733, provides insights. Memorials commemorate the victims of National Socialism, such as the Esterwegen memorial in Emsland. Those interested can also get around in a monument: there is a museum railway in Bruchhausen-Vilsen (Diepholz district).

Families and children on the Open Monument Day in Lower Saxony

• Bleckede CastleBleckede, one-hour castle tour at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., right next door is the Biosphaerium Elbtalaue, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., entry with ticket
• Mary Magdalene Castle Church in Salzgitter, outstanding Protestant church building from the 16th century, 2:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., guided tours as required
• Midlum Brickworks Museum in Jemgum, tours provide insights into clinker production in East Frisia

Further information

Many castles are not only stone witnesses to past power, but are also worthwhile excursion destinations with museums, cafés and landscaped gardens. A selection. more

Schleswig-Holstein: From the torpedo workshop to the natural swimming pool

Lectures, guided tours and hands-on activities around 140 monuments invite you to Open Monument Day in Schleswig-Holstein. Included: sacred buildings such as the Ratzeburg and Lübeck cathedrals, manor houses, castles, gardens and historic factories. This offers insights into the lives of normal citizens Finder’s house in Lübeck, a tenement house from the 16th century. You can get an idea of ​​how the upper class lived at Düneck Castle. The mansion from 1871 has just been extensively renovated.

VIDEO: Düneck Castle: A mansion with a lot of history (4 min)

Families and children on the open monument day in Schleswig-Holstein

• Old fish smokehouse in Eckernförde from 1920 with six preserved Altona ovens, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m., smokehouses, film screenings and guided tours, museum education for children and adults
• Falkenwiese natural swimming pool in Lübeck, An der Falkenwiese, tour at 2 p.m., oldest Wakenitzbad from 1890/1899
• Lindenau shipyard and marine torpedo and mining workshops area in Kiel, Christianspries 30, 2 p.m. – 6 p.m., tours every 30 minutes

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Concert in Rostock

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania starts its open monument day with an opening concert in the concert hall of the Rostock University of Music and Theater (HMT) on September 9th at 7 p.m. The benefit concert is intended to contribute to the preservation and restoration of a historical landmark of the city and to benefit Rostock’s main church, St. Marien.

On September 10th, around 200 monuments in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania will be there, including Remplin Castle near Malchin. On Open Monument Day you can take a look into the building for the first time since the fall of communism. You can also do this in Ludwigsburg Castle near Greifswald, where renovation has already begun. In Rostock, the slipway crane is located on the former Neptun shipyard site, built in 1976. Ship parts used to be assembled there, and you will soon be able to get married there. In addition, many manor houses and many village and city churches are open, for example St. Mary’s Church in Greifswald, which has just been renovated.

VIDEO: Open Monument Day on Rügen (3 min)

Families and children on the open monument day in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

• Schwerin: Family tour “Tour with a Lady from the Court” and painting competition, Schleswig-Holstein House, 12:30 p.m., registration required
• Volhynian Resettlement Museumin Dobbin-Linstow, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., guided tours as required
• Ludwigslust Castle: Family tour “Madame, have you heard?”, 1:30 p.m., cultural-historical castle tour about life at court

Further information

The extensive monastery in the Mecklenburg Lake District has existed for almost 800 years. Visitors are welcome. more

Hamburg: churches, ships and industrial monuments

There are around waiting times in Hamburg 170 monuments waiting to be discovered. Nine sacred buildings are also opening their doors, including the Protestant parish church of St. Pankratius in Neuenfelde. If you can play a little piano, you can try out the Arp Schnitger organ there. In addition to historical buildings and industrial sites, unusual places can also be visited. The Ice cellar in Altona was built around 1870 below the house at Lessers Passage 4. The cellar probably served as a storage and cooling room deep underground during the restoration of the Altona City Theater, which was directly adjacent at the time. During the Second World War, the ice cellar was converted into an air raid shelter. The premises were only rediscovered a few years ago.

Families and children on the Open Monument Day in Hamburg

• Vierländer vegetable ewers: Since the Middle Ages, the Ewers, which are up to 16 meters long, have been the most effective means of transport to supply the region with vegetables, fruit, wood and many other goods. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., short trips, information at the pier
• Billwerder Island pumping station on the Moorfleeter main dike: The pumping station was built in 1892/93, during the cholera epidemic. Elbe water flowed through the ensemble of industrial buildings with four settling basins with valve houses, open canals and underground pipes for filtration to Kaltehofe. Guided tours for families, depending on your needs
• St. Jacobi Church: On Sunday, the St. Jacobi restoration workshop invites children and their companions to the mini-workshop, where a medieval stone sculpture is examined, researched and restored. Starts at 3 p.m., lasts 60 minutes

Further information

There are numerous Bismarck towers from the Baltic Sea to the Harz Mountains. They are popular excursion destinations because many offer beautiful views. more

30 years of open monument day

Since 1993, the Open Monument Day, organized by the German Monument Protection Foundation is coordinated to get to know historical buildings, archaeological sites and parks more intensively. Many of the participating monuments are not normally accessible. The event’s patron is the Federal President.