German Rifle Museum

The German Rifle Museum at Callenberg Castle in the Coburg district of Beiersdorf depicts the history of German riflemen . It is run by the German Rifle Federation and was opened on May 14, 2004 by Andreas von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha and the President of the German Rifle Federation Josef Ambacher .

Predecessor facility

Former shooting museum in the Nuremberg shooting house

In the Erlenstegen district of Nuremberg from 1907 to 1938, the previous facility of today's museum was housed in the so-called shooting house. The shooting museum was financially supported by the privileged Hauptschützen-Gesellschaft Nürnberg and the city and had a collection of rarities and trophies , which were presented to the public by donation or loan. In the spring of 1938 it was looted by the Gestapo and the remains of the inventory were taken to the Germanic National Museum to be secured . There some of them fell victim to the air raids of January 2, 1945 during the Second World War . The remaining objects are still stored there.

Web links

Website of the German Rifle Museum
German Rifle Museum on coburg-tourist.de

Callenberg Castle: German Rifle Museum. Coburg, independent city / Upper Franconia. (No longer available online.) In: museen-in-bayern.de. Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation - State Office for Non- State Museums in Bavaria, archived from the original on March 12, 2016 (focus: collection history).

Callenberg Castle: German Rifle Museum. Coburg, independent city / Upper Franconia. In: museen-in-bayern.de. Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation - State Office for Non-State Museums in Bavaria(focus: description of the collection).

Individual evidence

↑ Stefan Grus: Between sport and tradition - the German Rifle Museum Coburg . In: German working group of sports museums, sports archives and sports collections e. V. (Ed.): DAGS magazine . Bulletin of the German Association of Sports Museums, Sports Archives and Sports Collections e. V. Band 4 , no. 1 , 2009, ISSN 1613-5121 , p. 9–19 , here: p. 10 ( dags-ev.de [PDF; 8.0 MB ; accessed on June 11, 2019]).

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[1] Stefan Grus: Between sport and tradition - the German Rifle Museum Coburg . In: German working group of sports museums, sports archives and sports collections e. V. (Ed.): DAGS magazine . Bulletin of the German Association of Sports Museums, Sports Archives and Sports Collections e. V. Band 4 , no. 1 , 2009, ISSN 1613-5121 , p. 9–19 , here: p. 10 ( dags-ev.de [PDF; 8.0 MB ; accessed on June 11, 2019]).