Fritz B. Busch's Automobile Museum

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View of Fritz B. Busch's automobile museum in Wolfegg

The Fritz B. Busch Automobile Museum was founded in 1973 by the auto journalist Fritz B. Busch (1922–2010) in a 500-year-old outbuilding of the princely castle of Waldburg-Wolfegg in Wolfegg . After several expansions and embellishments, there were more than 200 oldtimers on a 3,000 m² exhibition area.

Cars , scooter mobiles , motorbikes , tractors and caravans from everyday life were on display , as well as special models. The museum was closed at the end of October 2016. Several exhibits moved to the Auto & Tractor Museum . In April 2017, a car museum was reopened on the site of the former museum. The new Auto Museum Wolfegg is mainly dedicated to the vehicles of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

History of the museum

Fuel pump from 1939

In 1972 Fritz B. Busch restored an approximately 500-year-old farm building belonging to Wolfegg Castle, which Prince Max Willibald von Waldburg-Wolfegg made available to set up an automobile museum. When the museum opened at Easter 1973, the exhibition included 32 automobiles. Over the years there have been around 200, including quite a few motorcycles. The exhibition area was expanded to 2500 square meters on two floors and in 1998 by another 700 square meters in a second building.

Fritz B. Busch not only exhibited his vehicles, but also allowed contemporary history to be experienced, with which they were connected; and he wanted to evoke memories of the visitors' personal experiences. In the windshields of some cars, cut-out posters were stuck in the form of clouds, telling, for example, of the Goggomobil that farmers used to drive to church on Sundays, and in which the goat, with the passenger seat removed, sat next to the driver when it had to go.

An old gas pump, a suggested campsite with a camper van, VW Beetle and NSU Prinz , a barn in which a so-called barn find was waiting to be restored, or old advertising posters took visitors back to bygone times. But not only small cars were shown, but also representative limousines such as a Horch , Hans Albers ' Cadillac Series 62 from 1951 and Helmut Zacharias ' Cadillac from 1988, on whose back seat the musician's violin was still lying, as well as fast sports cars, among others also the Porsche Formula 2 of the former King Hussein I of Jordan .

Busch's daughter Anka Guter-Busch ran the museum from 2006 until it was closed in autumn 2016. She did not want to sign a new lease for another five years because there was no prospect of a successor from the family. So she decided to sell the exhibits to the tractor museum in Uhldingen-Mühlhofen . Anka Guter-Busch emphasized in an interview that there are no economic reasons for closing the museum.

Exhibits

A selection of the exhibits:

Automobiles

motorcycles

Victoria KR6
  • Adler M 150, 1954
  • Adler MR 100, 1955
  • BMW ADAC team, 1954
  • BMW R 3 , 1936
  • BMW R 25 sidecar, 1955
  • BMW R 75 , 1976
  • DKW RT 125 , 1951
  • Hercules 200 K, 1952
  • Horex Regina , 1957
  • Hercules W 2000 , 1973
  • Moto Guzzi Alce, 1938
  • Moto Guzzi Astore team, 1950
  • Moto Guzzi Polizia, 1969
  • Moto Guzzi 500 GTV, 1944
  • Moto Guzzi Cardellino, 1956
  • Moto Guzzi Dingo, 1964
  • NSU 251 OSL, 1950
  • NSU Fox , 1952
  • NSU pony, 1939
  • NSU Pony 100, 1937
  • NSU Quick , 1938
  • NSU Quick, 1939
  • Puch 175 SV, 1957
  • Triumph BDG 250, 1952
  • Victoria KR 6, 1934
  • Zündapp 175 S, 1956
  • Zündapp DB 201, 1951
  • Zündapp Z 200, 1928

Scooter

Tractors

  • Allgaier , 1949
  • Deutz diesel tractor, 1927
  • Fordson, 1925
  • Hanomag RL 20, 1938
  • Hanomag WD R 28 A, 1925
  • HELA, 1927
  • Kramer, 1929
  • Kramer Allesschaffer, 1938
  • Lanz Bulldog, 1938
  • Lanz Bulldog, 1939
  • MIAG LD 20, 1939
  • Porsche Junior, 1958

Web links

Commons : Automobile  Museum by Fritz B. Busch - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Busch car museum is moving ( Memento from September 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ A b c Fritz B. Busch: His cars, his stories ... and his museum . Edited by Anka Guter-Busch. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-613-87262-5 .
  3. ↑ Gabriele Hoffmann: The car museum in Wolfegg is history . Swabian newspaper. Retrieved February 23, 2018.

Coordinates: 47 ° 49 ′ 19.6 "  N , 9 ° 47 ′ 36.1"  E