Vortaunus Museum

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The Vortaunus Museum in Oberursel on the market square

The Vortaunusmuseum in Oberursel (Taunus) is a modern regional museum that is primarily dedicated to the historical town history of Oberursel, but also to the entire Vordertaunus area . Notable permanent exhibits are devoted to the history of soapbox sport and its forerunners, children's automobile races . The Hans Thoma memorial site shows valuable originals by the painter Hans Thoma , who temporarily lived in Oberursel.

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In addition to the permanent exhibitions on soapbox sport and Hans Thoma, exhibitions provide information about

  • Oberursel's industrial history, including the use of the Urselbach as an energy source
  • Craft in Oberursel
  • Prehistory and early history of the Vordertaunus with finds from the Stone Age and the Celtic ramparts in the Taunus, especially the heather drink oppidum
  • Mineralogy and geology, including the gold mine
  • Medieval moated castle Bommersheim
  • Oberursel print products from the Reformation period

Temporary exhibitions, educational offers and the annual Advent and spring markets complete the range of information.

The city of Oberursel is responsible for the museum. The content is controlled by a board of trustees for the Vortaunusmuseum.

The museum is visited by around 8,000 visitors annually. The city supports the museum with 20,000 euros annually.

The building

The building of the museum is a representative half-timbered house with the address Marktplatz 1, which is under monument protection .

The main building stands on the remains of a medieval building. The oldest part of the building is the vaulted cellar from around 1500. After the destruction of the Thirty Years War , a two-storey residential building with a narrow side facing the market square was built on this cellar. In 1705 the Königstein Chamber of Commerce and Rentmeister Straub acquired the property. In the middle of the 18th century, the elongated part of the building at the head of the market square was added. A part of the property was used from 1782 to 1809 as the office building of the Kurmainzer Amtsvogtei Oberursel and the Nassau office of Oberursel .

In the 19th century the house was used as an inn and brewery. In 1826, a brewery was built on the southwestern edge of the upper step in the courtyard (today Schulstrasse 30/32). The owner of the property from 1849 to 1867, Philipp Kamper II (his daughter Margaretha (1848–1933) married the Oberursel mayor and member of parliament Jakob Aumüller in 1873 ), expanded it into a large company. Among other things, the "Felsenkeller", which still exists today, was built in 1852 as a beer rack. It is a system of cellars driven up to 5 meters deep. In 1858 the third wing with a dance hall was built. In 1912 the city of Oberursel acquired the building complex. The museum opened here in the summer of 1987.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefanie Heil: Everything that makes Oberursel. In: Taunus Zeitung. August 15, 2012, accessed October 8, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Martina Jensong: Vortaunusmuseum is happy about donations: Very special sketches. In: Taunus Zeitung. January 6, 2016, accessed October 8, 2017 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 12 '7.6 "  N , 8 ° 34" 35.7 "  E