Museum in the Ursula-Stift and forge at the Stift

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With the museum in the Ursula-Stift Gussenstadt houses the oldest museum of its kind in Württemberg , which was founded in 1911 by Dr. phil. hc Georg Thierer, author of the two-volume local chronicle of Gussenstadt, in the parish hall donated by his brother Valentin Thierer.

The exhibition area of ​​the permanent exhibition comprises 280 m², which are distributed over seven rooms. The first museum room, which was set up in 1911, has been preserved almost in its original form and is already being represented by experts as a museum within a museum. The documentation of the living conditions on the Heidenheimer Alb in the past with traditional costumes , living room and chamber furnishings, everyday objects from house and yard, as well as stove plates , lamps and lights as well as evidence of evangelical piety - Bibles, prayer books and souvenir pictures at stages in the life cycle, from birth to zum Tod - give an insight into the rural living culture of the 18th to 20th centuries.

Further focal points are:

  • Exhibits on local history such as documents, oaths, seal sticks, neck violins, boundary stones, etc.
  • Collections of local animals, fossils and a probably unique collection of local fruits from 1911.
  • In addition to the weaver , who is presented through the exhibition from flax to linen , the museum shows the old brick and shoemaker's trade .
  • The special events with handicraft demonstrations in the completely furnished former village blacksmith's forge at Stift , where the old blacksmith's trade is presented in a lively way, are a special attraction .
  • Old toys such as knight castles, dolls, dollhouses, farms, trains, etc. lead back to the children's world of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • Art exhibitions by the painters Otto Neubrand and Wilhelm Schneider.
  • The presentation of the work of the founders Valentin and Georg Thierer takes up a separate space.

Every year special exhibitions on a wide variety of topics take place in the Jakobshalle , which belongs to the museum , and a corresponding program is offered for young and old to match the topic.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 38 ′ 28.2 "  N , 9 ° 57 ′ 27.1"  E