Heimatmuseum Wiesenbach
Volunteer-run local history museum in the attic of Wiesenbach town hall, with six rooms on Roman finds, daily life and crafts; visits by arrangement.
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About the museum
The Heimatmuseum Wiesenbach opened in 1981. Committed citizens around Ursula Schemmel built it up and supported it; she led the museum until 1994, after which Gisa Weber took over. Since 2017 Claus Hartmann has headed the Freundeskreis Heimatmuseum (friends' circle), which supports the work on a voluntary basis.
The museum is housed in the attic of today's town hall on Hauptstraße. The building went up in 1901/1902 and served as a school and town hall until 1967. Six rooms display mainly prehistoric and early historic finds, most of them Roman, including a cast of the lower jaw of a roughly 500,000-year-old Homo heidelbergensis, a stone axe, and Roman building elements from two estate farms in the municipal area.
Further rooms show rural and village life between 1850 and 1930: a period-accurate kitchen, a sleeping chamber, a needlework room with linen and embroidery, equipment from farming and crafts, a shoemaker's workshop and a 1930s classroom. Historic photos are laid out at the entrance for browsing.
A branch of the friends' circle is the Alte Ziegelei (old brickworks) on Poststraße, opened as a museum in 2000. It is a historic brick kiln with a rare Altdeutscher Kammerofen (old German chamber kiln), where changing art exhibitions also take place.
Highlights
- Cast of the Homo heidelbergensis lower jaw
- Roman finds from Wiesenbach estate farms
- Period kitchen and sleeping chamber from around 1850
- Needlework room with linen and embroidery
- Shoemaker's workshop and 1930s classroom
Permanent exhibition
- Dauerausstellung zur Wiesenbacher Orts- und Alltagsgeschichte – Six rooms with Roman finds, a historic kitchen, sleeping chamber, needlework room, craft tools, shoemaker's workshop and schoolroom.
- Founded
- 1981
- Operated by
- Gemeinde Wiesenbach / Freundeskreis Heimatmuseum
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The museum is in the attic of the town hall, Hauptstraße 26.
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| Good to know | Visits and tours by arrangement; groups should register in advance by phone. |
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