1. German Bratwurst Museum

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Building of the 1st German Bratwurst Museum

The 1st German Bratwurst Museum is a permanent exhibition dedicated to the bratwurst in a specially constructed building in the southwest of the Thuringian village of Holzhausen in the municipality of Wachsenburg . The exhibition was opened on May 28, 2006 by a local association founded three months earlier ( Friends of Thuringian Bratwurst eV ). A special focus is the history of the Thuringian Rostbratwurst .

history

The core of the documentation is the announcement of the previously verifiable first mention of the Bratwurst on January 20, 1404 in a statement from Johann von Siebeleben, provost of the former Walpurgis monastery in Arnstadt, which was closed during the Reformation . This document says that “1 gr vor gutme czu brotwurstin” (1 groschen for bratwurst casings ) was issued. One of the association's founders, the archivist Peter Unger, found this document in the Thuringian State Archives in Rudolstadt on July 13, 2000. This find inspired the later founders of the association to collect information material about the traditional Thuringian court and make it accessible to the public.

In November 2008 the museum received the Thuringian Marketing Prize for Tourism 2008 from the Thuringian Minister for Economics and Labor, endowed with 8,000 euros .

exhibition

Information on pig breeds, meat and sausage processing, recipes and equipment for slaughtering and producing the bratwurst is collected on the ground floor.

In January 2008, the documentation on the upper floor was expanded to include a replica of a monastery kitchen and a provost house, as one could have imagined in Arnstadt in 1404. Furthermore, the model design of the Thuringian fair , which was an attraction at the World Exhibition in Brussels in 1910 , is reproduced in miniature format. An authentic Thuringian fair with a fairground, half-timbered houses and the bratwurst eater as a characteristic symbolic figure was brought to life on 72 m² . The original design by the sculptor Reinhard Möller with life-size figures is in the German Toy Museum in Sonneberg .

The Weimar butcher's charter of 1432 documents the purity law of the German bratwurst, the individual German bratwurst regions and recipes are explained to distinguish them from the Thuringian bratwurst, and some curious stories about the sausage are told. For example, as a student in Erfurt , Martin Luther once did not pay for his bratwurst and had it written on a slate in chalk in the inn. The phrase chalking up something is associated with this. Photo documentations illustrate the worldwide reception of the bratwurst, for example in the form of long queues in front of Wagner's Fine Food in Melbourne .

The Association of Friends of Thuringian Bratwurst e. V. has around 150 members, including some from overseas (China, USA, Australia). Since 2006 he has organized an annual Bratwurstiade with games around the Bratwurst. The party barn in the village organizes group tours, family celebrations and individual sausage tastings. To advertise the museum, an oversized wooden model of a bratwurst in a roll was installed on the east edge of Holzhausen in the middle of the newly built traffic circle from the direction of Arnstadt .

Media presence

As a regional tourist attraction, the museum is also repeatedly the subject of national reporting. This is how ARD performed it in Germany's most bizarre museums in September 2006 . The MDR filmed on location on June 29, 2007 for the program Die Mitteldeutsche Museumsnacht , broadcast in the Thuringian regional program on July 12, 2007.

  • Largest accessible sausage

  • Reconstruction of the monastery sausage kitchen in Arnstadt in 1404

  • "Last Supper" by Arno Funke

  • “Bratwurstkreisel” at the eastern entrance to Holzhausen

  • 1. German Bratwurst Museum in Holzhausen

Location

Due to the high number of visitors (50,000 visitors per year), the infrastructure is reaching its limits. The museum was therefore looking for a new location. During the search, a location on the former Mühlhausen satellite camp was considered, which caused severe criticism in large parts of the public. In the meantime, a site above the former camp is favored. It is planned to open the museum in May 2020 at the new location in Mühlhausen. The foundation stone was laid on January 20, 2020. The new location should be four times the size of the old one. [outdated]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bratwurst Museum in Holzhausen is looking for a new location
  2. ↑ Plans: Bratwurst Museum above the former concentration camp site. In: insuedthueringen.de. Free Word , February 18, 2019, accessed February 18, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Development plan for the Bratwurst Museum in Mühlhausen approved. In: insuedthueringen.de. Free Word , July 26, 2019, accessed September 21, 2019 .
  4. ^ Start of construction for the Thuringian Bratwurst Museum in Mühlhausen. January 20, 2020, accessed January 27, 2020 .

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Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 0.5 ″  N , 10 ° 52 ′ 55 ″  E