Weygang Museum
The Weygang Museum is a city history and folklore museum in Öhringen . It houses one of the world's most extensive collections of pewter tools .
history
The pewter and manufacturer August Weygang (1859–1946), who died childless, bequeathed his extensive real estate property to his hometown Öhringen with the proviso that a museum was set up in his former home in Karlsvorstadt . Collections and cash flowed into the legally responsible “August and Thekla Weygang Foundation” established after his death. The museum opened on May 24, 1953. In 1999 the building was extensively renovated. In 2005 it was approved by the “Home Care Working Group in the Stuttgart Region”. V. ”awarded as“ Exemplary Local History Museum ”. In 2011, the city of Öhringen bought back Weygand's workshop equipment and mold collection from the Schweizer-Zinn company in Dießen am Ammersee , the legal successor of Weygang, and also transferred them to the foundation.
Collections
The museum collections on the ground floor include an introduction to the history of the German-Swedish pewter foundry dynasty Weygang, among other things, pewter products from the sacred area (Protestant and Catholic church pewter, Jewish sacred objects) and from the guild system ( guild goblets, jugs, door and table signs). On the upper floor, Weygang's furniture from the Renaissance to Historicism as well as parts of Weygang's pewter and faience collections with pieces from the 16th to 20th centuries are presented in the former living quarters. The farmer's room includes furniture from the well-known Rößler family of carpenters from Untermünkheim , including a sumptuous four-poster bed by Johann Rößler the Elder and a double-door cupboard by his son Michael Rößler.
The former workshop of August Weygang is located in an extension behind the residential building. It is the oldest still producing pewter foundry in Germany and offers demonstrations once a month. The Roman cellar under the house, accessible from the garden, shows original finds and replicas of finds from Roman Öhringen (consecration stones, sculptures, tableware made from Terra Sigillata , fragments of glass and metalwork).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.oehringen.de/buerger/stiftungen/august-und-thekla-weygang-stiftung/projekte.html
- ^ Weygang Museum prepared for the future , Heilbronner Voice from April 26, 2011 (accessed January 5, 2020).