German Playing Card Museum

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The German Playing Card Museum in Leinfelden-Echterdingen , a branch of the Landesmuseum Württemberg , houses one of the largest public playing card collections in Europe and is open to all ludologists and those interested in private life. Playing cards are systematically collected, archived and researched. The collection includes around 15,000 card games with over 500,000 individual cards, a games library with an archive, a graphics collection, as well as handicrafts, card presses, printing blocks , glasses, gaming tables, etc. The Asian-Indian collection of playing cards is a rarity. It is considered to be the most comprehensive and beautiful in the world. The museum is a member of the International Playing Card Society .

history

The history of the playing card museum began in Altenburg, Thuringia, in 1923 . On the initiative of Julius Benndorf, publisher of the Altenburg skat calendar (pseudonym Benno Dirf), and with the help of Carl Schneider, director of the United Stralsund playing card factories (later ASS ), the local history museum, founded four years earlier by Albrecht von der Gabelentz, was incorporated into Altenburg Castle Affiliated playing card museum called Skatheimat , which was limited to one room. 6000 different card games could be collected by 1939. In 1946, when the ASS playing card factory was dismantled by the Soviet military administration in Thuringia, the museum's collection was also taken away; its whereabouts are unclear.

The expropriated company ASS, which was relocated to West Germany after the Second World War , first to Mannheim and then to Leinfelden in 1956 , built up a collection there in a new company museum, the ASS Museum . ASS continuously acquired other playing card manufacturers, some of which had more or less large company archives, but also private collections that exclusively benefited the museum:

  • Collection Dr. Martin von Hase, 1950
  • Franz Ritter von Hauslab collection, 1955

In 1972, ASS also took over the German Playing Cards Museum with Bielefelder Spielkarten GmbH. V. in Bielefeld, which had also acquired several important collections:

  • Collection Dr. Werner Jakstein , 1952
  • Richard Kaselowsky Collection, 1955
  • Rudolf von Leyden Collection, 1956

The museum in Leinfelden was given the name of the new acquisition, in 1974 the German Playing Card Museum was opened at the location of today's Schönbuchschule. On August 18, 1982, the German Playing Cards Museum was sold to the state of Baden-Württemberg and the city of Leinfelden-Echterdingen due to the increasingly tight financial scope of ASS . Leinfelden-Echterdingen became the sponsor of the museum, which also became a branch of the Württemberg State Museum. In 1983 a support association was established.

The city of Leinfelden-Echterdingen closed the exhibition on June 30, 2012 and converted the museum into an archive that can be viewed by appointment. The reason was the deficits that the museum generated. Exhibitions are shown in the city museum Leinfelden-Echterdingen.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ City closes the playing cards museum Stuttgarter-Zeitung.de, June 22, 2012, accessed on June 23, 2012

Coordinates: 48 ° 41 ′ 24.5 ″  N , 9 ° 8 ′ 18.5 ″  E