Motorrad- und Technikmuseum Großschönau

Current exhibitions

About the museum

Technology-minded members of the MC Robur Zittau motorcycle club led by Horst Fiebiger opened the museum on July 4, 1992, in a former weaving mill on David-Goldberg-Straße in Großschönau. On around 450 square meters, they displayed the vehicles, engines, and workshop equipment they had collected over the years.

As the old premises became too cramped, the collection moved to a larger factory building on Hauptstraße, where life rafts, inflatable boats, and life jackets had previously been made. The new building was officially opened on April 6, 2019; it offers brighter rooms, better transport links, and space for special exhibitions.

The focus is on vehicle manufacturing in Upper Lusatia, above all the Phänomen-Werke in Zittau, founded by Gustav Hiller in 1888 and later renamed the Robur-Werke. The exhibition ranges from an 1820 running machine (draisine) to prewar motorcycles, Czech machines, and East German two-wheelers, all the way to racing bikes from the Lückendorf hill climb. There is also a locksmith’s workshop from around 1900 driven by line shafts, a steam engine installation from 1902, historic shopfronts, and a 1930s gas station. The museum is run by volunteers from the club’s museum working group.

Highlights

• Vehicles from Zittau’s Phänomen and Robur works, including a Phänomobil
• Working locksmith’s workshop from around 1900 with line-shaft drive
• Steam engine installation from 1902, demonstrated in operation
• Complete 1930s Shell gas station
• Racing corner devoted to the Lückendorf hill climb
• Historic wooden and tin toys

Permanent exhibitions

• Historisches Handwerk – On the first floor, a locksmith’s shop, smithy, and woodworking shop from around 1900 operate alongside a steam engine installation, complemented by engines, shopfronts, and old toys.
• Vom Laufrad zum Motorrad – The history of two-wheelers from the running machine and penny-farthing to prewar machines and East German mopeds, focusing on Phänomen and Robur, with a 1930s gas station and a racing corner.

Founded

1992

Operated by

MC Robur Zittau e. V.

Admission & discounts

Admission prices are not published on the website of the museum or the municipality. Separate admission, independent of the Deutsches Damast- und Frottiermuseum in the same town; no joint combination ticket is offered. Reduced admission applies for the Christmas exhibition in December.

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