Museum in the monastery
Museum in the monastery
The Frankenberg Museum was founded in 1952 as a district museum in the north wing of the Cistercian convent of St Georgenberg, which was dissolved during the Reformation. This 13th century building, which has housed various offices since the end of the 16th century, is still home to the museum today. Following the comprehensive redesign, you will find an exhibition on the town and district of Frankenberg in the former cloister, the refectory, the dormitory and the Romanesque Mauritius Chapel. It takes you from the great heyday of humanism to the time of the district town in the 19th and 20th centuries. Get to know people and their times!
Philipp Soldan and Tyle von Frankenberg
Frankenberg has borne the additional designation "Philipp Soldan City" since 2018. This is dedicated to one of its most outstanding sons. Soldan, who was born around 1500, worked in Frankenberg and the region as a stone sculptor, wood carver, mould maker, painter and master builder. He left behind important works that still fascinate today with their artistic charisma. As for Tyle von Frankenberg, who worked in the town several generations before Soldan, the Church of Our Lady also became a temporary centre of his work during the period of humanism and the Reformation from the 14th to the 16th century. The museum in Frankenberg Monastery preserves numerous works by both artists, reminding us of the town's early heyday.
Views of the city and circles
The City Views and District Views section displays interesting, unusual and rare exhibits from the museum's diverse collection on the following topics: 1821: Frankenberg becomes a district - 1821: The centre of the district - Frankenberg's backbone: cloth and leather - The Niedermühle: water art and power generation - About living together in the Shoah - The fate of Frankenberg resident Jacob Katzenstein (1865-1943) - Times of hardship and National Socialism - The fate of Frankenberg resident Karl Richter (1907-1944) - Club involvement: Of cyclists, role models and the march into the Listenbach - Mining: Frankenberg, Geismar, Thalitter - Traditional costumes in the district - Fashionable hats in the town - Hessenstein Castle - Keseburg ruins - 1933/45 - 1968 - The doctor August Loderhose and "the 68ers" - The German small-town man - Failed in the middle classes: the WAA On passing on the memory
Directions & Parking
Here you will find information on how to get to the museum in the monastery and the car park situation.
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