Heimatstube im Klosterhof

About the museum

The Heimatstube has been housed in the Klosterhof since 1980, a building dating from 1648. It is run by the Steinheim local heritage association, which maintains local customs, demonstrates old craft techniques and preserves objects from earlier times.

The collection is diverse: there are early Alemannic finds, a working medieval bakehouse, a fully preserved forge, a cobbler's workshop and the monastery kitchen. A special feature is the legacy of the hermit Sofonias Theuß, who was in China during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 and brought back art objects, which he bequeathed to the municipality.

On the upper floor, traditional costumes, tools and mementos recall the expellees from the Danube Swabian villages of Neudorf-Batschko Novo Selo and Weindorf, who found a new home in Steinheim. Every year on October 3, a festival is held in the Klosterhof, when the historic bread oven is fired up.

Highlights

• Building from 1648 in the Klosterhof
• Fully preserved old forge and monastery kitchen
• China collection of the hermit Sofonias Theuß
• Costumes and mementos of the Danube Swabians
• Monastery festival with bread oven on October 3

Permanent exhibition

• Heimatstube im Klosterhof – The exhibition shows crafts and everyday life of earlier times, the China collection of Sofonias Theuß and mementos of the Danube Swabians.

Operated by

Heimatverein Steinheim e. V.

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