Museum of Saxon vehicles, Automobile museum in Kapellenberg, Germany.
The Museum of Saxon Vehicles occupies the Stern-Garagen on Zwickauer Straße in the Kapellenberg district, one of Germany's oldest surviving multi-storey garages. Its roughly 200 exhibits of bicycles, motorcycles and automobiles fill about 1,000 square metres, tracing the history of vehicle building in Saxony.
In 1993 restorer and author Frieder Bach founded the association that opened the museum in 1995 in the former stables of Klaffenbach water castle, with over 120 exhibits on some 800 m². After the 2002 flood submerged the lower floor to 70 cm, the collection moved in 2008 to the Stern-Garagen on Zwickauer Straße, where around 1000 m² are available.
The collection reflects how automotive manufacturing shaped the region's identity and daily life for generations, with vehicles that represented the skill and pride of local workers. Visitors can see how these products remain connected to community memory.
The museum occupies the historic Stern-Garagen on Zwickauer Straße in the Kapellenberg district, with around 1000 m² of exhibition space. The move from Klaffenbach in 2008 was used to restructure the displays from scratch, and special exhibitions are again possible. The collection is split between the city-owned share of 115 exhibits and the association's holdings.
In 2010 the museum was offered the private Rasmussen collection, 24 DKW cars and about 30 motorcycles and stationary engines, from the grandson of DKW founder Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen. Lacking space, it declined; the cars went to the neighbouring Chemnitz Industrial Museum, the motorcycles to Schloss Wildeck in Zschopau.
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