Museum of local history and brewery

The Pleinfeld Museum of local history was established on the occasion of the 500-years-celebrations of the Pleinfeld community in the Vogteischloss (castle Vogtei). It contains chronicles of Pleinfeld since the Middle Ages, a photo exhibition showing „Old-Pleinfeld“, craftsmen workrooms, a farmers kitchen and working utensils, ploughs, carriages and sleighs, ornamental painted cupboards and old traditional styled clothes, sacral art-objects and a forestry collection as well as two old tower clocks in the stairway. Here you will also find a particular tool for former land surveying, the so called „Reichelbacher distance-meter“. Chief forester Kurt Kreppel (+) has collected the items for the museum over the last past decades.

Meanwhile, the Museum of Local History has been  complemented with the first middle-Franconian museum of brewery.  Max Schreiner (+) a master brewer from Ellingen, has collected many objects from the old brewery tradition during his working life. You will find everything from hops and wooden barrel to flip-top-bottle, all things which once had been necessary to brew Bavarian beer.

Ticket rates:

Adults:                            2,00 Euro

Children:                          1,00 Euro

Pupils/Students:                1,00 Euro

Handicapped persons:        1,00 Euro

Groups/guided tours:

Guided tours on request (at least 10 participants)

Price for the guided tour - ticket rate plus 10,00 Euro for the group.

Duration of the guided tour: approx. 1.5 hours.

Opening hours:

Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 12:00
Thuesday, Thursday, Friday from 15:00 to 17:00
Sunday from 14:00 to 16.00
Guided tours for groups on request.

Contact:

Kultur- u. Touristinformation Pleinfeld (0 91 44) 92 00 - 70

Directions:

In Pleinfeld in the community house, next to the catholic church.

Private countryside museum in Ramsberg

A lot of the exhibit objects show how the country life in the village around 1760 was: books, country working utensils and forestry equipment e.g. a German plough and old/former architecture may be seen.

Opening hours: in summer every Sunday from 14:00 to 17:00

Ticket rate: voluntary donation

Person to contact: Wunibald Seitz, Ramsberg, Untere Dorfstraße 14,
Tel. (0 91 44) 61 06.