Weinbau- und Heimatmuseum Klingenberg

About the museum

Klingenberg am Main has been a wine town for centuries: as early as 1261, vineyards belonging to the Schenken von Clingenburg are mentioned in a document, and in 1298 the first vineyard name, “Mühle”, appears in a contract. Clay, however, brought the town its greatest wealth: the municipal mine yielded such high surpluses that the citizens lived tax-free for a long time and received an annual “Bürgergeld” (citizens' allowance).

The Weinbau- und Heimatmuseum presents both economic branches across four floors. The ground floor is devoted to vine care, harvest, pressing and the maturing of wine, including a collection of glasses and bottles. Two show galleries document clay mining in the past and present, and there are also mining lamps, ceramics, uniforms and a collection of pencils that recalls the Klingenberg clay used in pencils.

Further rooms show the Röllfeld village forge, a cooperage and a wheelwright's workshop, fully furnished workshops and models of Main River boats. The attic is devoted to crafts such as basket-making and tanning, along with an old schoolroom, a laundry and a weaving room; the third floor is devoted to women's lives around 1900. A new addition is a “Religious Niche” with saints' figures and church folk art.

Highlights

• Winegrowing from vine care to the bottle, with a collection of glasses and bottles
• Two show galleries on clay mining
• Pencil collection and mining lamps
• Cooperage, wheelwright's workshop, forge and other fully furnished workshops
• Models of historical Main River boats

Permanent exhibition

• Dauerausstellung zu Weinbau, Tonbergbau und Handwerk – Across four floors: winegrowing and cooperage, show galleries of the Klingenberg clay mine, workshops, shipping, and women's lives around 1900.

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Stadt Klingenberg a. Main

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