Course de la Paix cycling museum

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The Course de la Paix cycling museum ( Peace Ride Museum ) in Kleinmühlingen is dedicated to the memory of the International Peace Ride, which was held for the last time in 2006.

The museum is based on the collection of the Kleinmühlinger Horst Schäfer, who has shown it in a small museum since 2002 - first in a garage, then on a stable floor. Because these rooms were reaching the limits of their capacity - also because many visitors left the museum with their own memorabilia - the community and the association jointly planned to build a new museum. The foundation stone was laid in 2005 and the opening in 2007. The official operator is the Radfreizeit, Radsportgeschichte und Friedensfahrt eV association. Much of the work was done on his own, and the cyclist Täve Schur asked friends not to give him birthday presents, but to donate them to the museum. In addition to Täve Schur, former cyclists such as Klaus Ampler , Detlef Zabel and Thomas Barth as well as sports journalist Heinz Florian Oertel were present at the opening . Since then, around 2500 visitors have come every year. The museum already had many prominent supporters before it was founded. In 1996 , the five-time winner of the tour, Steffen Wesemann, donated his cash prize for the best driver on German territory in order to support the work on founding the museum.

The museum shows over 10,000 exhibits on 230 square meters. Schur, Ampler, Barth, Andreas Petermann , Olaf Ludwig and Steffen Wesemann donated items from their property. These include trophies, bicycles and jerseys, autographs, photos, posters, cycling literature, postage stamps and first day covers as well as exhibits from regional cycling. Among the exhibits are the Friedensfahrt victory jersey by Schur from 1955 , a diamond bike from 1937 on which Edgar Schatz from Halle an der Saale became the first GDR road champion in 1950 , and a time trial machine by Olaf Ludwig from 1980 , two ergometers on which Jan Ullrich trained as a 16-year-old in Rostock , as well as an accordion that Detlef Zabel received in 1955 after the peace trip. The museum also archives countless love letters and marriage proposals that Schur received in the course of his career. When visitors enter the museum, the Friedensfahrt fanfare sounds .

To mark the 60th anniversary of the Peace Drive, the cyclist Tarek Abu Al Dahab , who was the only Lebanese to have taken part in the Peace Drive several times in the early 1960s , visited the museum.

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  1. ↑ Ralf Fiebelkorn: Article on the opening of the museum. Retrieved January 12, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b Sabrina Gorges: Fanfare and knitted jersey in the Friedensfahrt Museum. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, May 21, 2014, accessed on January 12, 2015 .
  3. ↑ club Radfreizeit, cycling history and Friedensfahrt eV (ed.): Cycling Museum Course de la Paix . Kleinmühlingen 2012, p. 5 .
  4. ↑ Friedensfahrt-Museum. Museum Association of Saxony-Anhalt, accessed on January 12, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Evi Simeoni: Called "Täve". Frankfurter Allgemeine, November 25, 2011, accessed on January 12, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Lebanese cyclist wants a peace ride between Beirut and Tel Aviv on volksstimme.de v. May 8, 2012