Urweltmuseum (Primeval World) Waldenburg

image author: G. Miladinovic

Witnesses of earth's history

As a branch of State Museum for Natural History Stuttgart the Hohenlohe Urweltmuseum (Primeval World) exhibits at the former large hall of the town hall Waldenburg, which was rebuilt in 1951, fossils from Hohenlohe shell limestone and Keuper.
Focal point of the exhibition is the unique fossil finds from the Lettenkeuper of Kupferzell at the foothills of the Waldenburg Mountains, which were discovered in 1977 during the construction of the motorway Heilbronn - Nuremburg by the railway employee Johann Georg Wegele from Waldenburg.

image author: G. Miladinovic

In the centre of the museum is the primeval amphibian Mastodon saurian, represented with original finds and a vivid reconstruction in its former habitat, a bog with cycads and horse tails. It is being framed by showcases with characteristic fossils of plants, invertebrates and saurian from the shell limestone - sea and the   Lettenkeuper. They are being explained with the aid of life pictures and mediate so a comprehensive, easy to understand presentation of primeval flora and fauna in Hohenlohe ca. 230 million years ago.  
Hohenloher Urweltmuseum
Hauptstrasse 13
74638 Waldenburg
Telephone: 0 79 42 / 10 8-0
stadt@waldenburg-hohenlohe.de

image author: G. Miladinovic