German Allotment Museum, Museum in Leipzig, Germany
The German Allotment Museum occupies the upper floor of the 1896 clubhouse of the "Dr. Schreber" allotment association, the world's first Schreber association, named after the Leipzig physician Moritz Schreber. Its permanent exhibition, "Germany's Allotment Gardeners – from the 19th to the 21st Century", traces the movement from the first allotment club founded in Kappeln in 1814 to the present, using documents, photographs, medals, club flags, trophies, historic garden tools and a model of a garden house furnished around 1900.
The idea of a national allotment museum arose in 1991, and the support association was founded on 12 February 1992. The museum opened on 23 August 1996 in the renovated 1896 clubhouse of the Dr. Schreber allotment association, which was named after Leipzig physician Moritz Schreber and founded in 1864.
You can see how allotment gardens function in Leipzig's community life and what they mean to people who tend them. The displays show how gardening cultures have shifted across different eras and social groups in the region.
The museum occupies the upper floor of the clubhouse of the "Dr. Schreber" allotment association, inside a garden complex protected as a monument. The museum garden, with its historic garden houses, is visited on foot; the grounds also hold a children's playground with historic equipment and the restaurant "Schreber's Restaurant und Biergarten".
The outdoor grounds feature one of Germany's oldest garden houses dating to 1880 alongside four historical Saxon garden buildings. You can also see a recreation of East German gardens from the 1980s that shows what home gardening looked like behind the former border.
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