Museum Pegau
The Pegau City Museum was founded in 1899, making it the oldest local museum in West Saxony. The foundation for this was laid by the city administration , the church and the citizens with their extensive donations. It is located with 560 m² of exhibition space on two levels in the top floor of the Pegau town hall . Since 1994 it has reopened with the completely new concept. The exposition is designed according to modern museum criteria and impresses with the ambience of the almost three hundred and fifty year old roof structure of the town hall.
Two permanent exhibitions can be seen: The first, the folklore exhibition "Tour through the life of the old Pegauers" familiarizes with the life of our ancestors from the cradle to all the joys and sorrows of life to the grave.
The second, the historical timeline "Mammoths, Monks, Makers" draws an arc of the story from the tundra of the Ice Age to the first permanently resident farmers and cattle breeders, the Benedictine monks of the first monastery east of the Saale in the Markenland and the development of the city, their strokes of fate and highlights up to the great makers on the threshold of the last century.
There are also special exhibitions every year.
In front of the door of the museum there is a steep staircase leading to the ascent of the town hall tower, past the clockwork of the tower, until you step thirty meters up onto a gallery where you are surprised by a remarkable panoramic view of the city and the southern area of Leipzig . The living area in the top of the tower used to be the work area of the tower keeper, who watched over the city and reported fires.
The brickworks Erbs technical monument is attached to the museum
Individual evidence
- ^ Tylo Peter: 100 Years of the Museum of the City of Pegau . In: Heimatblätter des Bornaer Land, issue 9 .