Mittelalterliches Kriminalmuseum / Medieval Crime and Justice Museum - Rothenburg ob ter Tauber, Bavaria, Germany
N 49° 22.547 E 010° 10.751
32U E 585596 N 5469899
What was it like to be a medieval bad guy? You will find out here. // Wie ist es, ein mittelalterliches Bösewicht sein? Sie möchten hier erfahren.
Waymark Code: WMYMHW
Location: Bayern, Germany
Date Posted: 06/29/2018
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The museum tells the brutal history of over 1,000 years of crime and punishment in Germany and other parts of Europe. It comprises about 50,000 exhibits and is one of the most important and popular law and crime museums in Germany and Europe.
The collection dates back to a small private collection belonging to the publisher and archivist Karl Albrecht at the end of the 19th/beginning of the 20th centuries. The collection was housed in what was known as the "Rothenburg Torture Chamber" in the tower of the castle hotel in Klostergasse (Monastery Lane) and was based on the world famous Nuremberg torture chamber exhibition by G.F.Geuder. The "Rothenburg Torture Chamber" collection and building were taken over, extended and presented in the form of a museum by the artist couple Ernst Paul Hinckeldey and Marta Hinckeldey-Wittke. Since the 1950s, their son Christoph Hinckeldey and his wife Hildegard have continued the collection and expanded the exhibition area to include the cellar of the castle hotel. The gradual extension of the collection and expansion of the museum's facilities into a comprehensive museum for Law and Justice within the German-speaking region made it necessary to enlarge the museum premises in the 1970s. For this reason the museum moved to the former St.John's Commandery in Burggasse in Rothenburg in 1977.
Theme:
law, crime and punishment
Street Address:
Burggasse 3, Rothenburg ob ter Tauber, Bavaria, Germany
Food Court: no
Gift Shop: yes
Hours of Operation:
April to October: 10.00 to 18.00
November to March: 13.00 to 16.00
Special opening times:
Weekends during Advent: 11.00 to 16.00
24th December: 10.00 to 13.00
31st December: 10.00 to 13.00
Cost: 7.00 (listed in local currency)
Museum Size: Medium
Relevant Web Site: [Web Link]
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