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Holzgeräte-Museum und Siebold-Museum Burg Brandenstein
Holzgeräte-Museum und Siebold-Museum Burg Brandenstein
36381 Schlüchtern-Elm
The castle complex, which is over 750 years old, is located on a mountain spur above the Schlüchtern district of Elm. In 1909, the owner Alexander von Brandenstein married Hella Countess of Zeppelin, the only daughter of Count von Zeppelin. The Wooden Tools Museum opened on Easter in 1970 in the old stables of the gatehouse. Its collection now displays nearly 800 objects, tools and implements made of wood or for working wood, most of which were collected by Isa von Brandenstein, the former lady of the castle. Siebold Museum tells the story of the physician and polymath Philipp Franz von Siebold (*1796), an ancestor of the von Brandenstein - Zeppelin family, who was in Dutch service. Siebold used his stay in Japan from 1823 to 1829 for extensive studies of Japan, which was almost unknown at the time. He also taught Japanese scholars and thus laid the foundation for the systematic scientific exploration of the island kingdom.