German Potato Museum
 German Potato Museum, the rear building is the former synagogue |
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The German Potato Museum in Fußgönheim , a local community of the Maxdorf Association in the Rhine-Palatinate District ( Rhineland-Palatinate ), is one of three potato museums in Germany , alongside the Potato Museum in Munich and the Western Pomerania Potato Museum in Stremlow.
museum
The sponsor is the registered association Deutsches Kartoffelmuseum Fußgönheim eV , which is recognized as a non-profit organization and whose members are volunteers.
The museum provides information about the botany , breeding and origin of the potato as well as its distribution, especially its cultivation in the Palatinate and Prussia , supported there by King Frederick the Great (1712–1786).
Entry to the museum is free.
building
One of the buildings of the Potato Museum is the Fußgönheim Synagogue, built in 1842 .
See also
- The Potato Museum in Munich
- Western Pomeranian Potato Museum in Tribsees (District of Western Pomerania-Rügen)
literature
- German Potato Museum Fußgönheim eV: Museum guide. Fußgönheim 1999.
Web links
Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '27.2 " N , 8 ° 17' 38.9" E