Wittelsbacher Museum Aichach
The Wittelsbacher Museum is an archaeological and cultural history museum in the Swabian Aichach in the district of Aichach-Friedberg . The museum was opened in 1989 as the seventh branch museum of the Archaeological State Collection in Munich. It is located in the "city tower" of Aichach, part of the former city fortifications. The museum got its name because of the extensive documentation of Wittelsbach Castle , which was the ancestral seat of the Wittelsbach family from the 10th to the beginning of the 13th century .
Exhibition and exhibits
The exhibition, which extends over four floors, begins with geological finds from the Aichach and Friedberg area, tertiary fossils of animals and plants. This is followed by an introduction to the various methods of archeology , the reconstruction of finds and their evaluation. The thematic range spans from prehistoric finds from all phases of settlement in the region through to Roman times and the beginning of the early Middle Ages . Relatively new finds come from a necropolis from the Hallstatt period .
The following section of the museum deals with the excavation findings from Oberwittelsbach Castle. The development as a simple rampart, the growth into a wall-reinforced castle and its destruction in 1209 are traced, the complex is modeled three-dimensionally using detailed models. For the first time in southern Germany, a castle complex has been archaeologically investigated so intensively. The exhibition closes with ceramic and glass finds from the time of the Thirty Years War , which come from the center of Aichach.
Web links
- Website of the Wittelsbacher Museum
- Wittelsbacher Museum on Aichach.de
Coordinates: 48 ° 27 '36.7 " N , 11 ° 7' 57.4" E