Klepper folding boat museum

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The Klepper Faltbootmuseum is a museum in the factory exhibition rooms of the Klepper Faltbootwerft . It is located in Klepper Park in Rosenheim , which has been the location of the boatyard of the same name since 1919. With almost 3,000 employees, the plant was once the largest employer in Rosenheim.

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The exhibition space was opened in May 2001 after extensive renovation. According to board spokeswoman Ursula Isbruch, the museum should be “a place to meet and dream of folding boat fans and canoeists”. The museum's subject areas are the past highlights of the robust, dismountable water sports equipment, such as the victorious Olympic participation in 1936, in which Klepper folding boats were used, or the successful Atlantic crossing by Hannes Lindemann in 1956. At the same time, the exhibition is intended to introduce visitors to new adventures with the folding boat stimulate the great outdoors.

Original parts of the original construction of the boat frame made of bamboo poles are shown in the exhibition room, as well as one of the prototypes with which Alfred Heurich experimented. The triumphant advance of the folding boat after Alfred Heurich's voyage on the Isar in 1905 began after the First World War. Only a few documents have survived from the once almost 70 folding boat yards. Folding boat frames from Erbacher, Harr, LFB, Marquart, Pionier and Klepper are on display , as well as folding boat frames from Tyne and Lore on loan from the International Canoe Association . Historical specimens of the Klepper coat and tents are also on display.

A fire in 1995 destroyed all the folding boats and other exhibits collected by the company. Today's collection was made from donations from members of the Klepper Museum e. V. or from holdings of private individuals.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.rosenheim.de/kultur-freizeit/klepper-museum.html
  2. ↑ Kleppermuseum.de . Official website of the Klepper Museum, accessed on May 28, 2015.

Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ′ 55.2 ″  N , 12 ° 7 ′ 1.6 ″  E