Bachmann-Museum Bremervörde, Regional history museum in Bremervörde, Germany
The Bachmann Museum is a regional history museum in Bremervorde that displays geological finds, archaeological discoveries, and cultural objects from the Rotenburg district. The exhibition includes items from different time periods, ranging from stone tools to coins and other everyday objects from the region's past.
The museum's collection was founded by August Bachmann, a local researcher who gathered over 80,000 objects between 1893 and 1983. This collection documents thousands of years of human settlement and development in this part of Lower Saxony.
The collection shows stone tools and coins from different periods that document how people settled in this region over time. You can see evidence of daily life and trade from many centuries of habitation.
The museum occupies the oldest building in Bremervörde, the former archiepiscopal chancellery of the castle's Vorwerk, in the town centre. The Steinzeitdorf, a reconstruction of Mesolithic huts, stands a few hundred metres away by the Auesee and belongs to the museum; it is used as an outdoor learning site, so allow time for both.
The museum houses a Neolithic wooden wheel from Gnarrenburg-Karlshöfen that is around 4,600 years old and ranks among the oldest wheels in Northwest Europe. This rare find demonstrates how sophisticated technology was even during the Stone Age.
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