Deer Museum
The deer museum is a private hunting museum in the royal castle in Berchtesgaden . The collection was put together by Albrecht Duke of Bavaria .
history
The museum was opened in 2005 on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Duke Albrecht of Bavaria in the former stables of the Royal Berchtesgaden Castle on 400 m². It was created under the direction of the former director of the German Hunting and Fishing Museum Bernd E. Ergert . It offers an insight into Albrecht Herzog von Bayern's deer research . From 1984 to 2005 all research objects were located in the Grünau hunting lodge east of Neuburg an der Donau. In the museum, the Duke's former study has been recreated with the original furnishings. In 2011 a further 300 m² with the skull collection will be added to the museum.
Collection and research
The passionate hunter, Duke Albrecht von Bayern, collected the entire collection himself in the course of his many years of wildlife research, documented it and evaluated it. The deer museum shows research objects from the Weichselboden area .
Over the years, 1290 buck, 590 goat and fawn skulls and 3425 drop poles came together. Numerous drop poles could later be assigned to the buck skulls, so that one could follow the development of the bucks.
The exhibition shows the results of years of feeding trials on deer. Duke Albrecht of Bavaria was not concerned with the breeding of capital bucks for hunting purposes. He wanted to prove that the cause of the underdevelopment of the deer are inadequate living conditions. In addition to the physical development of the deer, he also examined the damage caused by browsing in the forest and looked for the connections.
Duke Albrecht was able to prove that browsing, especially on spruce cultures, does not arise from the deer's need to take up raw fibers. Rather, severe browsing damage in a hunting area is a clear sign of malnutrition.
Another research result brought forward by Duke Albrecht in the behavior of the deer. In terms of territorial and social behavior, it is not primarily the size of the habitat and the density of game that play a role, but primarily changes in the food supply. These relationships can be illustrated using the weight of venison and antlers. Duke Albrecht and his wife Jenke published their research results of decades in the extensive work About Rehe in a Styrian mountain area , for which they received an honorary doctorate from Munich University.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 37 '59.8 " N , 13 ° 0'11" E