Stadtmuseum Herzogenaurach

Over het museum

In 1908 the Historischer Verein opened a first museum in the city tower with craft tools and folk-life items. During World War II large parts of the collection were lost to looting. From 1969 the Heimatverein rebuilt the holdings on a voluntary basis in the former Amtsschloss.

Since autumn 2000 the municipal museum has been housed in the former Hospital of the Holy Spirit on Kirchenplatz. The institution goes back to a foundation established in 1508 by the master dyer Conrad Reyter, which cared for elderly and frail citizens. The late medieval half-timbered house with a vaulted cellar is considered a monument of national significance and was restored in keeping with its landmark status for museum use.

On three floors the permanent exhibition tells the roughly thousand-year history of the town: the life of the farmer-townspeople under the rule of the bishop, hospital life, guilds, and the cloth-making trade that shaped the town for centuries, as well as its rise to a center of the sports shoe and roller bearing industries. In the former granary loft you can see sacred art, evidence of folk piety, and works by the sculptor Maria Lerch. Two areas are available for changing exhibitions.

Hoogtepunten

• Half-timbered hospital of 1508 as the museum building
• Original shoes from Herzogenaurach's sporting goods makers adidas and Puma
• Cloth makers' tools and guild antiquities
• Staged arrival of a hospital resident (Pfründnerin) at the hospital
• Re-created studio of the sculptor Maria Lerch

Vaste collectie

• Ackerbürger und Landesherrn – Everyday life in a small town ruled by a bishop, municipal self-government, and the history of the hospital, staged with the arrival of a hospital resident.
• Handwerk und Industrie – From guilds and cloth makers through industrialization to the sports shoe production of adidas and Puma.
• Kirche, Kunst und Frömmigkeit – Sacred paintings and sculptures, works by Michael Störcher and Maria Lerch, and evidence of folk belief in the former granary loft.

Opgericht

1908

Beheerder

Stadt Herzogenaurach

Toegangsprijzen & kortingen

Open tours without registration at the regular admission price.

Toegankelijkheid

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Kinderen & gezin

Erg geschikt voor kinderen & gezinnen

• Gezinsrondleidingen & workshops
• Speurtocht, doeboekje of kinderaudiotour

Digital scavenger hunt with the alien AlbiX2 via smartphone app; bookable children's tours (museum tour with AlbiX2, animal tour, museum rally with the mascot Herzo Herbert) and city history workshops, for example on dyers, cobblers, or writing with quill and ink.

Bereikbaarheid & parkeren

By car via the A3, exit Frauenaurach/Herzogenaurach, then about 4.5 km to the center.

Service & horeca

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Evenementen & zaalverhuur

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