Heimatkundliches Museum Pressath

Local history museum "Haus der Heimat" in the 1900 girls' school in Pressath, with customs, art, crafts and everyday life of the western Upper Palatinate.

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About the museum

The Heimatmuseum Pressath, usually called "Haus der Heimat" (House of the Homeland), occupies the former girls' school building on Kemnather Straße. Town parish priest (Stadtpfarrer) Reinwald had the building erected in 1900. Until 1939 the Armen Schulschwestern (Poor School Sisters) ran a kindergarten there; until 1973 it served as a girls' school.

The Heimatpflegebund Pressath (local heritage association), founded in 1962 by Hans Neumann, was handed the building by the town in 1977 to set up a museum. Neumann headed it until his death in 1989, the year the museum opened in its new function.

Today there are four exhibition rooms, an archive, an expellee room (Vertriebenenstube) and a lecture room. On display are religious customs of the western Upper Palatinate, works by artists from the area, crafts, everyday objects of the 19th century and, in the attic, agricultural tools. The exhibits range from the Thirty Years' War, which a wall relief depicting the siege of Pressath in 1633 recalls, to more recent times; photos document, among other things, the fates of soldiers in both World Wars as well as highlights of club and town history.

Highlights

Religious customs of the western Upper Palatinate
Works by regional artists and crafts
Wall relief of the siege of Pressath in 1633
Everyday objects of the 19th century and agriculture
Expellee room (Vertriebenenstube)

Permanent exhibition

Haus der Heimat – Dauerausstellung – Four exhibition rooms and the attic show customs, art, crafts, everyday life of the 19th century and agriculture, as well as evidence of town history since the Thirty Years' War.