Dorfmuseum Essingen

About the museum

The building on Rathausgasse is one of the oldest surviving houses in Essingen and is documented around 1700 as the inn “Zum grünen Baum”. In 1823 the municipality bought the property and converted it into a town hall; at times it also housed a girls' school and a lock-up cell. Around 1900, the village's first post office and the office of a village constable and field warden were added.

When the administration moved into a new building in 1989, the old town hall served for a long time only as a storeroom and club room, and its future was much debated. From 2004, a group of citizens campaigned to show the village's history there. In 2008 the Essingen Village Museum Association was founded, and the municipality made the building available to it; the members gradually furnished the exhibition rooms, often drawing on holdings of the old municipal archive. The “Stüble” was also created on the ground floor as a meeting place.

Today the museum presents numerous themed rooms on several floors, including a file-cutting workshop and smithy, a fully equipped barber shop, an old classroom, the lock-up cell, an old kitchen, stove plates from the ironworks of the region, as well as rooms on beekeeping, dairy farming, gardening, tailoring, toys and skiing. A special feature is the “Archaeologica” section with finds from the Stone Age to the Roman and Alamannic periods from the Essingen area, some of them on loan from the Archaeological State Museum. The programme is complemented by special activities on the open Sundays.

Highlights

• Old town hall, originally the inn “Zum grünen Baum” (around 1700)
• File-cutting workshop from around 1920 and village smithy
• Fully equipped barber shop and old classroom
• Historic lock-up cell
• Archaeological finds from the Essingen area
• Boundary stone from 1586

Permanent exhibitions

• Dorfleben und Handwerk in Essingen – Themed rooms in the old town hall on file cutting and the smithy, barber shop, school, lock-up cell, kitchen, beekeeping, dairy farming, tailoring and toys.
• Archaeologica – Finds spanning several millennia from the Essingen area, from Stone Age tools to Roman and Alamannic artefacts, some on loan from the State Museum.

Founded

2008

Operated by

Dorfmuseumsverein Essingen e. V.

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Amenities & dining

• Café

Museum Stüble with coffee and cake on the open Sundays.

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