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Lokalhistorie Hardheim, Baden-Württemberg

Erfatal-Museum

Award-winning local history museum in the 1683 tithe barn in Hardheim on local history, crafts and space-flight pioneer Walter Hohmann – currently closed.

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Midlertidigt lukket. Owing to fire-safety deficiencies, the building may until further notice only be used on the ground floor; the museum is therefore currently not open to visitors. Smaller exhibitions by the Museumsverein can be seen in the citizens’ office of the town hall and in the former conference room of the Erftalhalle.

Om museet

The origins of the collection go back to around 1900; in 1922 it was shown to the public for the first time in the tower room of Hardheim Castle. The driving force at the time was Emil Bader, a teacher from Bretzingen. In 1976 the Museumsverein Erfatal was founded; it secured and expanded the holdings and has run the museum on a voluntary basis ever since.

In the 1970s the museum moved into the attic floors of the so-called Schüttungsbau opposite the castle, a tithe barn completed in 1683 under the rule of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg. After a fundamental redesign, the first part of the exhibition opened in November 1991 and the second in September 1994. The museum has repeatedly been honoured as an “exemplary local history museum”, with the main prize in the Karlsruhe administrative district in 1994 and a further promotional prize in 1998.

In five sections the museum tells the story of Hardheim since prehistoric times, of local crafts with furnished workshops through to organ building, of farming in the Erfatal valley, and of well-known people from Hardheim such as the bicycle manufacturer Ignaz Schwinn and the painter Julius Heffner. One focus is Walter Hohmann, born in Hardheim, who was the first to calculate trajectories for journeys to other planets. Further attractions include a dance room from 1678, dinosaur tracks and the historic pharmacy installed in 2005. Because of fire-safety deficiencies in the building, the museum is currently not accessible; the association shows smaller exhibitions in the town hall and in the Erftalhalle and also operates the Walter Hohmann Observatory.

Højdepunkter

Section on space-flight pioneer Walter Hohmann with items from his estate
1897 tandem from the factory of Hardheim emigrant Ignaz Schwinn
Fully reconstructed dance room from 1678
Dinosaur tracks 200 to 230 million years old
Original furnished corner shop and historic pharmacy
Playable church organ built in Hardheim