Lorsch Tobacco Museum

The Tabakmuseum Lorsch is a national museum in Lorsch (Hesse). It shows the cultural history of tobacco (tobacco cultivation, cigar production, consumption), which was an important economic factor in agriculture and trade in Ried in southern Hesse from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century .

The museum is next to the monastery museum ( administration of the state palaces and gardens of Hesse ) to the adjacent Lorsch monastery and the folklore museum ( Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt ) one of the three departments of the museum center Lorsch . The building of the museum center, a former canning factory, is located in the immediate vicinity of the Lorsch gate hall . The 1500 exhibits of the tobacco museum extend over 600 m² in the ground floor, gallery and basement. The tobacco museum goes back to a photo competition and the subsequent special exhibition of the Heimat und Kulturverein Lorsch in 1981.

literature

• Karlheinz plate: Tabakmuseum Lorsch, texts and pictures for the exhibition , Verlag Laurissa, Lorsch 1999, ISBN 3-922781-21-7
• Helmut Seebach, Paul Schnitzer: The Tobacco Museum in Lorsch - A Hessian Special Museum , Hessian Homeland, Issue 2, 1991, pp. 53-55
• Alfred Ritzel: Smoke signals: Lorscher Museum commemorates the flourishing times of tobacco growing in Ried in Hesse , Offenbach-Post, 2006 H. 10.06, SV 1
• Norbert Bartnik: From the tobacco sewing machine to Herbert Wehner's pipe , Darmstädter Echo, February 28, 2008
• May: The world's largest pipe smokes and smokes , Darmstädter Echo, August 3, 2010
• Out and about in and around Heppenheim , Herrliches Hessen, hr-fernsehen, October 26, 2010, 8:15 p.m.

Web links

• Tabakmuseum Lorsch , lorsch.de
• Tobacco Museum , kloster-lorsch.de
• Lorsch tobacco history, calendar 2007 (PDF; 1.5 MB)

Coordinates: 49 ° 39 ′ 15.5 "  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 8.8"  E