Technikmuseum Kratzmühle, Technology museum and watermill in Kinding, Germany
The Technikmuseum Kratzmühle is a technology museum in the Kratzmühle hamlet of Kinding, in the Eichstätt district of Bavaria. It occupies a red brick building with a grey concrete base, a central block with a pyramidal roof and cross, and lower wings with pitched roofs; a green sign reading "TECHNIK MUSEUM" hangs on the white building to the right. A metal and wood bucket conveyor runs down a concrete wall toward the water channel beside it.
The Technikmuseum Kratzmühle was founded in 1995 by the Kulturhistorischer Verein Beilngries-Kinding e.V. and is housed in the Kratzmühle hamlet of Kinding in the Eichstätt district. In summer it once opened three to five days a week; by 2022 it opened only on Sundays.
The museum is run by the Kulturhistorische Verein Beilngries-Kinding e.V., which founded it in 1995 in the Kratzmühle hamlet of Kinding. Among the exhibits are a shoemaker's workshop and a tailor's workshop, set up with the tools of those trades. Dolls and tin toys are shown alongside the vehicles and engines.
The museum stands in Kratzmühle, a hamlet of Kinding in the Eichstätt district, beside a water channel where a bucket conveyor runs down to the water. Opening days have shrunk over the years: formerly three to five days a week in summer, by 2022 only Sundays. Plan the visit around that single weekly opening day.
The museum was founded in 1995 by the Kulturhistorische Verein Beilngries-Kinding e.V., and its home is the Kratzmühle hamlet of Kinding in the Eichstätt district. Among the vehicles on show are an Apollo Piccolo built between 1904 and 1914, an Opel 1,2 Liter from 1934 and a D-Rad motorcycle of 1927.
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