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Further Museums in Bonn
Museums in the Siebengebirge
Museums in the Sieg valley Museums in the Voreifel / Rhine region
Museums in the Ahr valley
Museums in the Siegtal
Church art, ceramics, children's books
The museum landscape in the Sieg valley offers its visitors a wide spectrum. The collections display many treasures and sights from the history.
Benediktinerabtei Michaelsberg Siegburg (Benedictine Abbey Michaelsberg Siegburg) Michaelsberg
53721 Siegburg
Telephone: +49 (0)22 41 / 12 9-0
Telefax: +49 (0)22 41 / 12 9-132
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Opening hours:
Guided tours: Su. 13:00 and on request
Visit of the tower: Mo. – Sa. 9:00–12:00 AM and 14:30–16:30 PM
Su. and public holidays 15:30-16:30 PM
The mountain in the middle of the city of Siegburg, which can be seen from far away and bears witness of the interesting history experienced by the city and the abbey, came into being by volcanic strengths. In the course of the fortification of the Cologne bishopric, Anno II., the archbishop of Cologne, achieved control of the Siegberg (Sieg mountain), which had been the residence of the Lotharingian count up until then. In 1064, Anno founded an abbey on top of the mountain, which he put under the special patronage of the archangel Michael.
The museum, which was opened in 1983, presents a wide collection displaying the abbey’s history, among others with exhibits from the period in between the two World Wars, when the abbey was reconstructed, and from the period after 1945, exhibits which were discovered in the course of excavations or restoration measures. There are exhibits like capitals, sculptures, stone fragments, manuscripts, stencil drawings and early engravings from the abbey possession, liturgical textiles and grave finds from the Reginhard grave (1105) and the grave of Wilhelm von Hochkirchen (1610).
Burg Wissem – Museum der Stadt Troisdorf (Fortress Wissem – Museum of the city of Troisdorf)
Burgallee
53840 Troisdorf
Telephone: +49 (0)22 41 / 88 41 11/-17
Telefax: +49 (0)22 41 / 88 41 20
Email: museum(at)troisdorf.de
www.bilderbuchmuseum.de
Opening hours:
Tu. – Su. 11:00 AM – 17:00 PM
The Burg Wissem, which accommodates Europe’s unique picture-book museum, is idyllically located in a park with game preserve and playground. Next to historical literature for children and young people from 1498 up until today, the exhibition also presents an extensive collection of original picture-book illustrations.
Tip: Free admission with the Bonn Regio WelcomeCard!
Gedenkstätte “Landjuden an der Sieg” (memorial place “Jews at the river Sieg”)
Bergstraße 9
51570 Windeck-Rosbach
Telephone: +49 (0)22 41 / 13 25 65
Telefax: +49 (0)22 41 / 13 32 71
www.windeck-online.de
Opening hours:
We. 14:00-16:00 PM and every 1st and 3rd Sunday per month
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the so-called “Reichskristallnacht”, the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis established a memorial place, which reminds of the life of the Jews in the Sieg valley and the downfall of their communities during the “Holocaust”. It displays documents and manuscripts and introduces into the basics of the Jewish belief.
Haus der Völker und Kulturen (House of the people and cultures)
Arnold-Janssen-Str. 26
53757 Sankt Augustin
Telephone: +49 (0)22 41 / 23 74 06
Telefax: +49 (0)22 41 / 23 74 07
www.haus-voelker-und-kulturen.de
Opening hours:
upon prior announcement
The Museum “Haus der Völker und Kulturen” is the ethnological museum of the Steyler missionaries of Sankt Augustin. In its rooms numerous non-European people are exhibited, above all from black Africa, Papua Neuginea, China and Ethiopia. It is the museum’s intention to bring foreign cultures and religions close to the people from our culture group. Next to guided tours, also films and lectures are part of the programme. With this exhibition the Steyler missionaries want to convey more respect and tolerance towards other cultures.
Heimatmuseum Altwindeck e.V. (Home Museum Altwindeck)
Im Thal Windeck
51570 Windeck
Telephone: +49 (0)22 92 / 38 88 or 89 42
Telefax: +49 (0)22 92 / 60 12 94
Email: museum(at)windeck-online.de
www.windeck-online.de
Opening hours:
April 1 – Nov. 30: Sa. 14:00-18:00 PM, Su. and on holidays 10:00-12:00 AM and 14:00-18:00 PM
Febr. 1 – March 31: Su. and on holidays 14:00-18:00 PM
Since 1974, the old school building has been a place for the preservation and care of moveable monuments, native history, culture,
art and nature. It accommodates historical exhibits of cultural interest. In the past years, a kind of open-air museum with two further haft-timbered houses, as well as a mill have been re-erected.
Tip: Free admission with the Bonn Regio WelcomeCard !
Schatzkammer St. Servatius (Treasure vault St. Servatius)
Mühlenstraße 6
53721 Siegburg
Telephone: +49 (0)22 41 / 631 46
Opening hours:
Tu. – Fr. 15:00 – 16:00 PM, Sa. 10.00 – 11.00 AM, Su. 11:30 – 12:30 PM
Groups upon prior announcement
The Siegburg-based Servatius treasure with its shrines, reliquaries and portable altars is one of the most important Romanesque church treasures in the world.
After the closure of the Benedictine Abbey on the Michaelsberg, its reliquary treasure was adjudicated to the catholic parish St. Servatius in 1812. The basis stock is formed by the many reliquaries, which were brought to the Siegburg-based abbey by the archbishop Anno II. Later on, the treasure vault was supplemented by numerous other exhibits. It was renovated in 1991.
Stadtmuseum Siegburg (City Museum Siegburg)
Markt 46
53721 Siegburg
Telephone: +49 (0)22 41 / 55 733
Telefax: +49 (0)22 41 / 96 985-25
www.siegburg.de
Email: stadtmuseum(at)siegburg.de
Opening hours:
Tu. - Sa. 10.00 AM – 17.00 PM, Su. 10.00 AM – 18.00 PM, closed on monday
On the exhibition grounds of 2,000 m² you can take a walk through the history of Siegburg and its region from the very beginning up until today. The collection of the Siegburg ceramics from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance era is the one which is most known. The museum offers art exhibitions (temporary art, modern trends) on a regular basis.
Tip: Free admission with the Bonn Regio WelcomeCard!
Torhausmuseum im Siegwerk
Alfred-Keller-Str. 55
53721 Siegburg
Telephone: +49 (0)22 41 / 10 23 25 or 30 44 09
Telefax: +49 (0)22 41 / 10 22 84
Email: torhaus(at)siegburg.de
www.siegburg.de
Opening hours:
Su. and We. 15:00 – 19:00 PM
Groups (minimum of 10 people): Tu. – Sa. upon prior announcement
With just four workers and six office employees, a new chapter of Siegburg’s industrial history began in 1911 in a small, narrow building on the ground of the calico factory. Alfred Keller, Councillor of Commerce, his son Alfred and Fritz Rung founded the “Siegwerk Chemisches Laboratorium” (Siegwerk Chemical Laboratory). Already at that time it was possible to transfer photographs to printing rollers with the inks developed there for the mechanical copper rotogravure.
Today, the Siegwerk belongs to the ten biggest printing ink producers in the world. 1,200 employees produce about 115,000 tons of ink per year.
The Siegwerk celebrates the foundation of the laboratory 90 years ago with a permanent exhibition, for which the first floor of the Torhaus Museum was renovated.
