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Heimatmuseum Meerholz
Heimatmuseum Meerholz
63571 Gelnhausen-Meerholz
By appointment
The museum of local history is located in the rooms of the old town hall and the bakehouse. This includes the completely preserved Meerholz municipal archives, a farmhouse with household objects such as spinning wheel, iron, utensils, clothes and toys, agricultural objects, a shoemaker's workshop and relics of local sculptors as well as the remembrance of the flight and expulsion after the Second World War with exhibits from the Sudetenland and Hungary. Display cases show objects from the First World War. Pictures and objects illustrate the history of the Counts of Ysenburg-Büdingen in Meerholz. Porcelain and products of the stoneware factory Wächtersbach, clay cups with corded ceramic decoration from the late Neolithic period ca. 2500 B.C. as well as pictures on the history of the Meerholz Jews, archaeological finds, and a pharmacy are also on show. The former community bakery offers rooms for special exhibitions. Bread baking is shown in the back area.