Fränkisches Freilandmuseum Bad Windsheim

Om museet

On 27 July 1976, the District Council of Middle Franconia decided to found an open-air museum on the southern edge of Bad Windsheim; a support association, which still backs the project today, had already formed in 1975. From spring 1979, the first buildings were dismantled at their original sites and rebuilt on the museum grounds, and the museum opened on 24 July 1982. Founding director Konrad Bedal ran it until 2010, followed by Herbert May; since October 2025, Karin Falkenberg has been at the helm.

On today's 45 hectares stand almost 130 relocated buildings from Upper, Middle and Lower Franconia – farmsteads, craftsmen's houses, mills, sheep farms, brewhouses, barns, a schoolhouse and a small hunting lodge. They are arranged in building groups by region and theme, so that a walk through the grounds takes you, as it were, from village to village and through around 700 years of everyday rural history. The houses of the Middle Ages building group, with the Archaeology Museum and a bathhouse, are particularly old; a building group on the 20th century includes a makeshift home and a steel house, among other things.

Gardens, fields, hop and vine plantings and old domestic animal breeds bring the historic cultural landscape to life. Around 40 permanent exhibitions and information rooms explore topics ranging from beekeeping to Jewish rural life. In the middle of the old town, the Town building group, with the Old Building Yard of 1441, the herbal pharmacy and the Church in Franconia Museum in the Hospital Church, is also part of the museum. The collection comprises about 200,000 objects; in 1991 the museum received the Bavarian Museum Prize.

Højdepunkter

• Almost 130 relocated buildings in building groups by Franconian region
• Middle Ages building group with the Archaeology Museum and bathhouse
• Communal brewhouse with demonstration brewing and inn
• Working brickworks in the Industry & Technology building group
• Old domestic animal breeds such as Triesdorf Tiger sheep and Swabian-Hall landrace pigs
• Old Building Yard of 1441 in the Town building group

Permanente udstillinger

• Archäologie-Museum – Hausbau in der Zeit vor 1000 – Exhibition by the Archaeological State Collection in the Middle Ages building group on settlement and house building in the early Middle Ages.
• Jüdisches Leben im ländlichen Franken – Permanent exhibition on the everyday life of Jewish families in Franconian villages.
• Fränkische Kräuterapotheke – Exhibition in the Town building group on the cultivation, processing and use of medicinal herbs and the making of herbal sweets.

Grundlagt

1982

Ejer

Bezirk Mittelfranken

Ledelse

Dr. Karin Falkenberg

Entrépriser & rabatter

Free admission for members of ICOM, the German Museums Association, BVMP and BVGD, holders of the Bavarian Volunteer Card and members of the support association. Discount when arriving with a VGN-Mobi-Card, day ticket, Deutschlandticket, BahnCard annual subscription or Bayern-Ticket.

Tilgængelighed

• Delvis kørestolsvenlig
• Elevator: ingen oplysninger
• Handicaptoilet
• Handicapparkering
• Servicehunde tilladt
• Taktile tilbud
• Rundvisninger på tegnsprog: ingen oplysninger
• Letlæste tilbud
• Synstolkning: ingen oplysninger

Well-surfaced 1.5 km circular route for wheelchair users; loan wheelchairs and hand carts at the main ticket office (reservations tel. 09841 6680-40). Accessible toilets at the main car park, in the East and South building groups and in the Hospital Church. Disabled parking at the service pavilion. Certified under "Reisen für Alle" (Travel for All); offers for people with visual, hearing and learning impairments as well as for people with dementia.

Børn og familie

Velegnet til børn og familier

• Familieomvisninger & workshops
• Interaktive stationer
• Legeplads / legehjørne
• Børnefødselsdage

Adventure playground in the Altmühlfranken building group with picnic areas, museum animals, festivals and theme weeks, as well as bookable hands-on tours and children's birthday parties (e.g. wash day, bread baking, farm adventure). Hand cart rental at the ticket office (€3, €50 deposit).

Transport & parkering

Via the A 7, exit Bad Windsheim, or via the A 73/B 8. Satnav destination: Bernhard-Bickert-Weg. Covered bicycle racks with e-bike charging stations.

Service & spisesteder

• Restaurant
• Museumsbutik
• Opbevaringsskabe

Four inns with beer gardens on the grounds: Gasthaus Zum Hirschen, Wirtschaft am Kommunbrauhaus, Wirtshaus Zur Krone am Freilandmuseum and Sommerkeller Weinbergshof. Picnic meadows at the adventure area; museum shop at the entrance with products made at the museum. Lockers at the bicycle racks.

Arrangementer & udlejning

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