Castle Museum (Quedlinburg)
The Castle Museum of the Quedlinburg Municipal Museums with the important historical library is housed in the rooms of the Renaissance castle .
The exhibition has been redesigned several times in recent years and the prehistory and early history section offers modern access with the help of computer-based reconstructions. The further exhibition shows the development of the castle hill with the free-worldly women's monastery and various facets of the city's history . Outstanding exhibits are the Bronze Age hoard from Lehof , with its exciting history, the gold disc brooch from the Great Order of the desert , the so-called " robbery box " (a chamber made of wood in which Count Albrecht II of Regenstein was imprisoned by the Quedlinburg citizens in 1337 supposed) and one of the rare surviving ballista reminiscent of a huge crossbow .
The representative rooms of the monastery have been pretty empty since the dissolution and the subsequent sale at the beginning of the 19th century, which Fontane already described in his novel Cécile (1887) with some irony.
Since 2002, an exhibition on the Ottonian times and National Socialism has been presented in the barrel vault , in the so-called Ottonenkeller . In addition, there are special exhibitions several times a year in the Quedlinburg Castle Museum.
The castle museum was closed on February 3, 2020 due to extensive construction work. The reopening is expected in 2022.
See also
Web links
- Castle Museum - World Heritage City of Quedlinburg
- Quedlinburg Castle Museum - Saxony-Anhalt Museum Association
Coordinates: 51 ° 47 '9.4 " N , 11 ° 8' 6.9" E