Balingen weighing museum
The Balingen Scale Museum in the Zollern Castle in the city of Balingen in the Zollernalb district of Baden-Württemberg shows the technical development of weighing technology from simple beam scales to retail and industrial scales of the 21st century with around 400 exhibits .
The exhibition shows z. B. a scale from Roman times , a filigree coin scale , the original wall inclination scale from the mechanic priest Philipp Matthäus Hahn as well as permanent loans from the Bizerba company , the largest industrial company in the city.
The museum holdings also include a hay scales designed by Jacob Leupold from the 18th century, which took the weight of a load of hay including a cart and was installed in the Neuhaus stud in Solling . For reasons of space, it is presented in the neighboring tithe barn .
The museum probably has one of the largest collections of its kind in the world.
opening hours
Wednesday, Friday, Sunday and every 1st Saturday of the month from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free.
literature
- The Bizerba Scale Museum. Guide through the Museum of Scales and Weight in the old Zollern Castle . Self-published by Bizerba, Balingen 1980
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karin Hahn: The hay scales - a unique find. In: Sollinger Heimatblätter, No. 4/2011, pp. 14-16.
Coordinates: 48 ° 16 ′ 16.2 ″ N , 8 ° 51 ′ 5 ″ E