| "We will lose the past, |
| if nobody takes care of |
| our cultural inheritance." |
With this in mind the cultural-historical society Baltrum ("Heimatverein Baltrum e.V.") was founded on 16 March 1989. In its first year we could already put items on display in our "Inselkammer" (island room) in the "Nordseehaus" (Northsea house) for the public to see.
After much effort we succeeded in purchasing the so-called "Bummert" from the town council of Baltrum in 1989.
This consecutively numbered house (number 18) was built approximately 1850 by the customs authorities in the style of an old Friesian double house and it was meant for two of her servants' families to live in.
Later it was used as a house for teachers, as a nursing department of the council (many Baltrum inhabitants were born in this house), as town bureau, as doctor's and dentist's practice and finally - until today - as private house.
In the autumn of the year 2000 one of the two tenants will leave the west part of the house and the cultural-historical society will then refurbishing - the beginning of the design and layout of an own, small "Heimatmuseum" (cultural-historical regional museum).
The goals of the society and its 151 members are especially:
- "protection and care/maintenance of the island landscape and the historical buildings,
- the preservation of customs and habits and
- spread the knowledge with regards to the East Friesian history and literature."
We would like to raise and maintain the awareness regarding the past; a goal that concerns us all!
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