Photo: Geschichtsverein Mundelsheim

Museum in der Stiftsscheuer Mundelsheim

Volunteer-run museum in a tithe barn with exhibitions on viticulture, cooperage and wheelwrighting in Mundelsheim.

Ask the museum for opening hoursFree admission Partially accessible

About the museum

The listed Stiftsscheuer was built in 1722 as the tithe barn of the noble convent of Oberstenfeld and later passed through several owners to the municipality of Mundelsheim. In 2003 the Mundelsheim history association, founded in 2000, rented the building from it; at the time it was in great need of renovation and served the municipality as a storeroom. In many hours of work, association members restored the building and, among other things, laid a sandstone floor in the vaulted cellar and installed new electrical and water lines and lighting.

On July 5, 2003, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the winegrowers' cooperative, the wine-growing exhibition opened; on the first two opening days alone, 1,800 visitors came. In 2005 the first floor was fitted out and the cooperage exhibition "Von der Eiche zum Fass" followed; in 2010 the association added a wheelwright's workshop, whose equipment it had rescued when the last wheelwright's shop in Mundelsheim was demolished.

The exhibitions show old working methods in the vineyard, including a small stake vineyard, harvest and barrel wagons, a complete cooper's workshop with a film on barrel making, and a wheelwright's workshop with tools and products.

Highlights

Wine-growing exhibition with a small stake vineyard
Complete cooper's workshop "Von der Eiche zum Fass"
Wheelwright's workshop with tools and products
Tithe barn of the Oberstenfeld convent from 1722

Founded: 2003
Operated by: Geschichtsverein Mundelsheim e. V.

Admission & discounts

Admission is free.

Admission is free; donations are welcome.

Accessibility

Partially wheelchair accessible
Elevator: not available
Accessible restroom: no information
Accessible parking: no information
Service dogs welcome: no information
Tactile models & exhibits: no information
Sign language tours: no information
Easy-to-read materials: no information
Audio description: no information

Only the entrance area and the viticulture exhibition on the ground floor are reasonably accessible; three steps lead to the viticulture exhibition. The cartwright exhibition is reached via a very steep wooden staircase, and the cooper exhibition on the top floor via another small staircase; the heritage authority did not approve a lift. During guided tours the association helps visitors with the stairs. Visitors who cannot reach the upper floors can watch a film on the ground floor in which a master cooper from Hörvelfingen builds a small barrel in two days, as well as digitised colour slides of the grape harvest from the 1950s.