Reinhard-Blauth-Museum
Local history museum in the Weilerbach Bürgerhaus (community hall), with finds from the Stone Age to the 20th century, plus farming and crafts.
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About the museum
The Heimatmuseum Weilerbach (local history museum) was founded in 1964 by the senior teacher and local historian Reinhard Blauth, and is the oldest local history museum in the Kaiserslautern district. It is named after its founder. In 1989, interested citizens formed a friends' association on the initiative of the local municipality. After extensive conversion work in the Bürgerhaus, the museum reopened in its present rooms in 1993.
The tour leads from the Stone Age to the 20th century. Among the oldest pieces are two Neolithic grinding stones for grinding grain, nicknamed "Napoleonshüte". A replica of a decorated armlet from the princely grave at Rodenbach and wheel fittings from the Weilerbach chariot grave recall the Celts, and vessels from an early Roman cremation cemetery recall the Roman period.
A large part of the exhibition is devoted to the everyday life of the population in the 19th and 20th centuries, with tools, furniture, household goods and agricultural machinery. Wall panels cover the Reichswald, the churches and the Teutonic Order; documents, maps and graphics round off the collection. The museum is run by the local municipality of Weilerbach, and the friends' association supports it through loans, donations and lectures.
Highlights
- Grinding stones from the Stone Age, nicknamed "Napoleonshüte"
- Celtic-era finds: chariot grave of Weilerbach and princely grave of Rodenbach (replica)
- Vessels from an early Roman cremation cemetery
- Agricultural tools and crafts of the 19th and 20th centuries
- 18th-century pulpit Bibles
Permanent exhibitions
- Frühgeschichte – Finds from the Stone Age through Celtic graves to Roman vessels from the region.
- Landwirtschaft und Handwerk – Tools, machines and implements that show the way of life and work of the rural population in the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Gegenstände des täglichen Gebrauchs – Furniture, furnishings and household goods from the everyday life of earlier generations.
- Founded
- 1964
- Operated by
- Ortsgemeinde Weilerbach (Förderkreis Reinhard-Blauth-Museum e.V.)
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