Museum Hürtgenwald 1944 und im Frieden
How to find us:
- Street
- Pfarrer-Dickmann-Straße 30
- Zip, City
- 52393 Hürtgenwald
- Country
- Germany
- Phone
- 02429 90 26 13
- Web
- https://www.museum-huertgenwald.de/
Description
The Museum Hürtgenwald 1944 und im Frieden is located in Vossenack in the municipality of Hürtgenwald in the district of Düren in North Rhine-Westphalia. It deliberately situates itself at a site of intense fighting in the Second World War and is devoted to the remembrance of the battles in the Hürtgen Forest as well as the so-called Allerseelenschlacht.
The origins of the exhibition date back to an opening on 29 March 1983 in a stone barn in Kleinhau, then under the name “Friedensmuseum Hürtgenwald 1944”. An early collection of regional objects—including vehicles, documents and uniforms—documented the military events in the area. Parts of this collection were later taken over by the municipality and handed to the Geschichtsverein Hürtgenwald. The present museum opened on 15 September 2001.
The exhibition is organized thematically and combines local regional history with military aspects. On display are exhibits on the Siegfried Line in the Hürtgenwald area, a map room illustrating the operational situation, depictions of the Wehrmacht and the US Army in the Hürtgenwald, and the region’s development in the postwar period. In this way a comprehensive picture of war experience, remembrance and reflections on peace emerges against the local historical background.