Hoffenheim Regional History Museum

Hours:

April-October, every 1st Sunday of the month from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. or according to reservations, tel: 07261/2770

Address:
Waibstadter Strasse 12, 74889 Sinsheim-Hoffenheim

The Hoffenheim Regional History Museum is a small rural museum in the historical “Old Post Office” with a courtyard where the former tithe barn was. It was founded by Jakob Roth and was originally the community bull stall, then in the Old School. In 1984, the Regional History Club was founded in Hoffenheim, which declared its most important task to be the opening of the Regional History Museum. Using funding from the City of Sinsheim, the newly hundred-year-old building of the “Old Post Office” was renovated. Then, in the fall of 1990, there was a festive inauguration. The museum’s focus is to demonstrate rural life and work in Hoffenheim during the 19th Century, then the history of clubs, artisanry and the aristocracy. The old club banners are particularly worth seeing, as well as a loom with chimeras that is over 200-years-old and has been restored to working condition. There is also documentation of the monument of the first regional ruler from the Gemmingen Family, General Eberhard Friedrich, and objects from school and church history.