Car & Tractor Museum

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Car & Tractor Museum
Tractor Museum Bodensee - Entrance area.jpg
Auto & Tractor Museum Bodensee: Entrance area
Data
place Gebhardsweiler 1,
88690 Uhldingen-Mühlhofen Coordinates: 47 ° 43 '44.6 "  N , 9 ° 15' 24.1"  EWorld icon
Art
opening April 28, 2013
Website

The Auto & Tractor Museum in Gebhardsweiler , a hamlet in the municipality of Uhldingen-Mühlhofen in the Lake Constance district , is a museum with a total of 350 automobiles, motorcycles and tractors. The vehicles are integrated into a collection of countless exhibits that show the development of rural and urban life over the past 100 years.

The museum has been open since spring 2013 and shows almost 200 tractors from Europe, Canada, the USA and Australia in an area of ​​10,000 square meters, as well as 100 vintage cars and 50 motorcycles from the Fritz B. Busch Automobile Museum in Wolfegg in spring 2017 .

The first attempts at motorization in agriculture and all facets of development in the pre- and post-war period can be seen using the example of tractors and cars.

The museum offers a journey through 100 years of urban and rural life: the rural life section leads through a village with typical craftsmen such as blacksmiths, shoemakers and barrel makers; In the city life department there is a tobacco shop, a kiosk and living room typical of the time.

The museum is completely barrier-free. A restaurant with 200 seats is connected. During the main season the museum is open daily from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

location

The museum is located in Uhldingen-Mühlhofen on Lake Constance . It can be reached from the B31 , exit Oberuhldingen.

Structure of the museum

Building of the Auto & Tractor Museum

philosophy

The museum opened in spring 2013. Target groups of visitors are families, clubs, groups, Lake Constance tourists, agricultural workers and those interested in cars and classic cars. The entrance to the museum is on the ground floor of a new building. The museum itself is located in the basement, ground floor, first floor and attic. A barrier-free tour leads through the exhibits. The individual floors can be reached with an elevator.

It depicts rural and urban life over the past 100 years. It is important for the museum owner that the exhibits should be shown in a historical setting, if possible. Former workshops of Wagner , cooper and blacksmiths are also exhibited, including original tools.

Build-up phases

It exhibits a private collection of 200 historic tractors from 1900 to 1970 from the USA, Switzerland, Germany and France as well as 150 automobiles and motorcycles.

Since March 2017, the collection of is Fritz B. Busch from the Automobile Museum of Fritz B. Busch integrated museum in the car & tractor. Fritz B. Busch's automobile museum in Wolfegg was closed in 2016.

Affiliated is the Jägerhof restaurant with around 200 seats and a terrace. The restaurant is also barrier-free.

Department "Life in the Country"

In the rural life section, visitors can take an interesting walk through an old farming village, past blacksmiths' workshops, past shoemakers , barrel makers and many other craftsmen, as they used to be in every village. Of course, there is also an old school in this village , a toy shop or a household store with the first mechanical aids for the household, such as the first pressure cookers or automatic apple peelers. The 200 tractors are the common thread through the exhibition. Tractor history, interspersed with rare exotic exhibits and models, is shown chronologically.

The tractors on display include a .:

  • Douglas Model P, Bristol (UK), built in 1915
  • Case –12/25, Racine - Wisconsin (USA), built in 1916
  • Hanomag - SR45, built in 1936
  • Hela - L 25, Aulendorf (D), built in 1944. MWM engine with wood gasification system
  • Hanomag - R455 S, built in 1958

  • Lokomobile (1927)
    Société française de matériel agricole et industriel (SFMAI)

  • Wallis Cub (1915)
    Wallis Tractor Co.

  • Hart-Parr 30-60 (1916)
    Hart-Parr Gasoline Engine Company

  • Case 12/25 (1916)
    Case Corporation

  • Happy Farmer 8-16 (1916)
    LaCross Tractor Co.

  • Waterloo Boy Model R (1917)
    Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company

  • Fageol 9-12 (1920)
    Fageol motors

  • Minneapolis 17/30 A (1922)
    Minneapolis Threshing Machine Company

  • Avery 45-65 (1923)
    Avery Power Machinery Company

  • Fiat 703 (1924)
    Fiat

  • MWM Motorpferd (1925)
    Motoren-Werke Mannheim (MWM)

  • Doyen D (1927)
    A. Doyen & Fils

  • Baker 25-50 (1928)
    AD Baker Company

  • Eagle 20/40 H (1928)
    Eagle Manufacturing Company

  • Renault PE (1928)
    Renault

  • David D4 Series 2 (1932)

  • Massey Harris GP 15-22 (1933)
    Massey-Harris Company Limited

  • Hanomag SR45 (1936)
    Hannoversche Maschinenbau AG

  • SFV Vierzon H1 (1936)
    Société française de Vierzon

  • Ursus UB 45 (1936)
    Italian tractor

  • SLM-Loki LM (1938)
    Swiss Locomotive and Machine Factory (SLM)

  • Fendt Dieselross F 18 (1939)
    Fendt

  • Schlueter DZM25 (1939)
    Anton Schlueter

  • Svoboda DK 12 (1940)
    Svoboda motor

  • Lanz D 3506 modified
    Heinrich Lanz AG

  • John Deere Model B (1944)
    John Deere Waterloo Tractor Works

  • Kleinland Ponny (1952)
    Buritschek & Herrmann

  • Unitrak UD 12 (1952)
    Creußen metal works

  • Ursus Bambi C10 (1957)
    Ursus tractor factory

  • Porsche Junior 108 (1959)
    Porsche-Diesel Motorenbau GmbH

  • Hakotrac T6 (1961)
    HAho GmbH

Ancient crafts and facilities

You can see workshops and facilities from the 19th century: cooper's workshop, wood transport with tractor, tractor workshop, equipment for home slaughtering, filderkraut production, master blacksmith workshop with a collection of horseshoes, workshop of a wagon master, primary school room with one-size-fits-all classes in one room, scissors grinder, washing and flattening facility with Iron models, iron warmers and dryers, wooden shoemakers, fire-fighting equipment, milk production, shoemaker's workshop and two old gasoline pumps (“iron maiden” model).

  • Old laundry room with various irons

  • Mechanical workshop

Old tools and household appliances

The tools are grouped into collections of similar tools: oil lamps, oil cans, hoes, hand drills, shovels in wood and iron, harrows, toys, collection of hand saws, wheelbarrows, coffee grinders, scales, pots, waffle irons, portion scoops, devices for sowing, poisonous injections against pests , Oil cans and oil funnels, collection of hammers and cables.

"City Life" Department

In the city life department, the tour takes you past well over 150 automobiles and motorcycles. As is well known, the first vehicles looked like horse-drawn carriages. Then there were the elegant large sedans of the 1920s and 1930s. The post-war period was particularly characterized by small cars such as the Isetta and Goggomobil, which were then replaced by larger vehicles in the 1960s and 1970s as their prosperity increased. While walking through the city, the guest will come across various typical shops selling furs, hats or groceries, etc. In addition, you can always look into a living room of the respective era. From the early days to the living room of the 1960s, with kidney-shaped table and tulip lamps.

Examples of automobiles:


  • Opel 4/20 Tourer

    Opel 4/20 Tourer

  • Fiat 501 S.

Urban environment

A pharmacy, a fur shop, a bicycle workshop, a motorcycle workshop, a hairdressing salon as well as a kiosk and typical living rooms with their furniture from the respective era are shown.

Movies

See also

Web links

Commons : Traktormuseum Bodensee  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tractor Museum Bodensee at badische-seiten.de
  2. ↑ Holger Kleinstück: Tractor Museum opened - a special kind of experience. In: Südkurier from March 28, 2013.
  3. ↑ Auto & Tractor Museum website
  4. ^ Auto and Tractor Museum (Ed.): Auto and Tractor Museum. ,. Leaflet approx. 2017.