Museums and well worth knowing facts at one glance (Part 2)

image author: Stadt Schlüchtern

 
 
The Bergwinkel Museum in Schlüchtern
The museum built around 1440 and in the 16th century renewed, is housed at the Lauterschen Schlösschen. Above the entrance door the family coat of arms of Hans Ernst von Lauter can still be seen.
The visitor can get acquainted with the village's history and museum through a sound slide show and will be informed about the historical trade and military road Frankfurt-Leipzig.
One can view an old pharmacy from 18th/19th century at the upper floor. In the other room stands a giraffe-neck piano from the year 1820.
On show are also tableware, household equipment, oven tiles and roof tiles produced by Schlüchter potters.
Personalities, tightly connected with the town history, like the humanist and reformator Ulrich von Hutten (born 1488), the abbot  Petrus Lotichius, who introduced the reformation to Kinzigtal and whose nephew an important German poet, are being presented.
Part of the exhibition is in honour of the Brothers Grimm who stem from Hanau and Steinau. They were guests at the Lauterschen Schlösschen, as one can recognise by means of different personal items and artistic work by Ludwig Emil Grimm.
 
Schlossstraße 15
36381 Schlüchtern
Telephone: (0 66 61) 8 57 50
Fax: (0 66 61) 73 01 60
 
Opening Times 1st of April to 30th of September:  
Tues to Sat 2pm–4pm  
Sun 10am–12noon 

1st of October to 31st of March:  
Wed 2pm–4pm  
Sun 10am–12noon