Folklore Museum Treuchtlingen

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The entrance area of ​​the museum, 2011

The folklore museum of the town of Treuchtlingen in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen is one of the largest folklore museums in Bavaria . Depending on the source, the number of exhibits is 22,000 - according to the self-disclosure - or 25,000. The building with the address Heinrich-Aurnhammer-Straße 10 to 12 is registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list under monument number D-5-77-173-25 . The museum shows objects from excavations at Treuchtlingen Castle and furniture from the 17th to the 20th centuries, including a valuable Renaissance cabinet from Möhren Castle .

The musician and graphic artist Josef Lidl had received old furniture from residents of the area from 1970 in order to found a museum. This took place in 1973 as the Treuchtlingen Local History Museum . The museum building was erected around 1900 as a manufacturing building. It is a two-storey eaves side building with a hipped mansard roof . In 1980 the museum was expanded to include the adjacent building. With the help of the Germanic National Museum , a prehistoric and prehistoric department was created. In 1990 the museum got its current name.

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .
  • Jens Hoppe: Jewish history and culture in museums: on the non-Jewish museology of the Jewish in Germany , Waxmann Verlag, 2001, p. 155f

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Folklore Museum Treuchtlingen , accessed on November 10, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b former Manufactory ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / geodaten.bayern.de
  3. ↑ Folklore Museum Treuchtlingen , www.treuchtlingen.de, City Treuchtlingen, accessed on 15 April 2014

Coordinates: 48 ° 57 ′ 21.9 ″  N , 10 ° 54 ′ 43.4 ″  E