Heimatmuseum Höchstadt a.d.Aisch
City museum in the Storchenrathaus in Höchstadt with 14 themed rooms on guilds, carp farming and Ice Age finds.
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About the museum
The idea for a local history museum in Höchstadt was sparked in 1926 during a visit by the Historical Association of Bamberg. On May 26, 1929, the museum opened in a room of the former castle; in 1954 it moved into the Stadtturm (town tower). After the town council decided in 1983 to move the collection, it went into the vacant Storchenrathaus on Hauptstraße.
After extensive renovation, the building reopened in 2003, the town's anniversary year, in a partly redesigned form. Across three floors, 14 themed rooms now tell the story of the town's more than thousand-year history.
Main focuses are a large collection of baroque guild objects, including a Hobelspan banner of the carpenters and locksmiths, and Franconian carp farming, of which Höchstadt remains the center to this day. The museum also covers prehistory and early history, geology, household goods, popular piety with a wooden sculpture of Anna Selbdritt (Saint Anne with Mary and Jesus) from around 1510, and finds from the Roth sand pit near Gremsdorf, including mammoth and woolly rhinoceros bones.
Highlights
- 14 themed rooms across three floors in the Storchenrathaus
- Baroque guild objects and Hobelspan banner
- Franconian carp farming
- Ice Age finds from the Roth sand pit
- Anna Selbdritt, wooden sculpture from around 1510
- City model of Höchstadt from around 1350
Permanent exhibitions
- Stadtgeschichte in 14 Themenräumen – A walk through more than a thousand years of Höchstadt history, with a city model, market history, crafts and guilds, and popular piety.
- Fränkische Karpfenzucht – The old pond farming around Höchstadt, still a center of carp farming in Franconia today.
- Funde aus der Sandgrube Roth – Ice Age animal bones, including a woolly rhinoceros, and Middle Paleolithic artifacts from the sand pit near Gremsdorf.
- Founded
- 1929
- Operated by
- Stadt Höchstadt a.d. Aisch
- Director
- Christian Plätzer
Admission & discounts
Admission is free.
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Plan your visit
| Guided tours | yes |
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| Good to know | Group tours by arrangement, on request also focused on individual themes of the collection. |
