Museen Kohren-Sahlis (Stadt Frohburg) Museum Hofmannsche Sammlung
How to find us:
- Street
- Kohrener Markt 8 (Postanschrift: Baumgartenstr. 3)
- Zip, City
- 04654 Frohburg
- Country
- Germany
- Phone
- 03434461547
- Fax
- 034344-649857
- Web
- http://www.frohburg.de
- kohrener-museen@frohburg.de
- Tags
- #Keramik #Bauernmöbel #historisches Spielzeug #Salzschank
Tue: 13:00 – 17:00
Wed: closed
Thu: closed
Fri: closed
Sat: 13:00 – 17:00
Sun: 13:00 – 17:00
Vollzahler: 4,00 €Ermäßigt: 3,00 €(Kinder ab 6; Schüler, Studenten, Azubis, Schwerbeschädigte und Behinderte und Rentner)Familie 2+2: 8,00 €Kinder 6-16: 1,00 €Kombikarte 2 Museen Vollzahler: 6,00 €Kombikarte 2 Museen Ermäßigt: 4,00 €Führung: ab 6 Pers. 1,00 pro PersonMuseumsbesuch außerhalb der Öffnungszeiten: zzgl. 10,00 € pro Gruppe
(EC, Creditcarts)
nein
Kids
bis 6 frei, bis 16 Jahre 1,00 €
Families
8,00 €
Students
3,00 €
Seniors
3,00 €
Disabled person
13,00 €
Special combinations
Kombikarte für 2 Museen Kohren-Sahlis: 6,00 €/4,00 €
Annual pass
nein
Members of the Museums Associations
frei
Description
The collector Rudolf Hofmann (1906–1986) gathered everything he considered worth keeping throughout his life. Contrary to the spirit of the times, he collected old Kohrener ceramics, farmhouse furniture, traditional costumes, toys, historic furniture, pewter, textiles and much more. He preferred items that testify to the cultural history of the Kohrener Land south of Leipzig, the town of Kohren-Sahlis and the surrounding manor estates. For example, a salt cupboard has been preserved — a cabinet that was used for the sale of salt. In earlier centuries the house held the right to dispense salt. After 1945 he became active in the Cultural Association of the GDR and founded the Pottery Museum. His parental home, a burgher’s house on the marketplace in Kohren-Sahlis, was a dye works until the end of the 19th century. Hofmann’s wife Ursula later ran a hand-weaving workshop there. Since the Hofmanns, like many collectors in the GDR, feared in the early 1980s that retrospective tax claims by the state might cost them their collection, they preempted this “expropriation” and transferred the collection to the state on the condition that a museum would later be established. This allowed them to continue living with and in their collection. After reunification the town of Kohren-Sahlis took over the collection and, after Ursula Hofmann’s death, also the buildings. Since 1999 the Museum Hofmann Collection has been open to visitors. Since 2014 Sporbert’s dollhouse and toy collection has also been on loan in the house.
