Bauspar-Museum

About the museum

In January 1921, the family of the publicist Georg Kropp (1865–1943) acquired half of a small 18th-century farmhouse on Haller Straße in Wüstenrot. Kropp had previously set out the idea of collective purpose-saving for a home of one's own in a pamphlet, and in 1921 he founded the association "Gemeinschaft der Freunde", which began operating in 1924 as the first German building society.

From the parlour of this house, the advertising slogan "Jeder Familie ihr Eigenheim" (A home of their own for every family) spread throughout Germany and as far as Austria. The company grew so quickly that by 1930 it had moved almost entirely to Ludwigsburg; the village's name, however, remained linked with the building society.

The listed building has housed a memorial to its founder since 1984, which was expanded into the Bauspar-Museum in 1996. The exhibition shows documents and objects on the life and work of Georg Kropp, on the beginnings of the building society in Wüstenrot, and on the emergence and spread of building society saving as a whole.

Highlights

• Founding house of the first German building society
• Documents on the life and work of Georg Kropp
• History of building society saving in Germany
• Listed 18th-century farmhouse

Founded

1996

Visitors per year

approx. 1,000

Admission & discounts

Admission is free.

Free admission.

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