Museum im Wehener Schloss

About the museum

The Wehener Schloss goes back to a castle that Count Gerlach I of Nassau had built around 1330 to secure his possessions. In the 16th and 17th centuries it served as a widow's residence of the counts of Nassau-Weilburg: Countess Anna and her daughter-in-law Elisabeth lived here, and in 1599 Anna founded the first public school of the village. The present building was largely erected in the 18th century, when an administrative seat with a court was housed here; the district court remained until 1943.

Since 1995 the castle has housed the museum of the town of Taunusstein. The exhibition "Taunussteiner Geschichte(n) neu erzählt…" takes up topics such as the provisioning of the Roman army or the craft of the executioner, and presents four well-known former residents of the castle, including father and son Ibell, who helped shape politics in the Duchy of Nassau.

A second exhibition, "Vom Barbier, dem Rohrstock, der Kochkiste und wie die Stadt zu ihrem Namen kam…", presents the everyday culture of the region in five stations: the village bells of the municipal messenger, a men's hair salon of the 1930s, a schoolroom around 1900, daily life in the lean years 1945 to 1947, and the origin of the name of the town of Taunusstein, formed in 1970 from ten municipalities. The museum also maintains the TaunussteinBibliothek, a library with literature about the town.

Highlights

• Men's hair salon from the 1930s
• Reconstructed schoolroom around 1900
• Village bells of the municipal messenger
• Stories about the Roman army, the executioner and the castle's residents
• Audio guides for the exhibition

Permanent exhibitions

• Taunussteiner Geschichte(n) neu erzählt… – Regional history from the Roman army to the executioner's trade, plus four prominent former residents of the Wehener Schloss.
• Vom Barbier, dem Rohrstock, der Kochkiste und wie die Stadt zu ihrem Namen kam… – Five stations on regional everyday culture, including village bells, a hair salon of the 1930s and a schoolroom around 1900.

Founded

1995

Operated by

Stadt Taunusstein

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Admission is free.

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