Black Forest Costume Museum

The Black Forest Costume Museum (German: Schwarzwälder Trachtenmuseum) is a museum in the convent building of the former Capuchin abbey in Haslach im Kinzigtal in the Baden-Württemberg county of Ortenaukreis in south Germany.[1]

Black Forest Costume Museum
The Black Forest Costume Museum inside of the former Capuchin abbey
Established1980
LocationHaslach im Kinzigtal, Black Forest, Germany
TypeFolk museum, Local museum
Websitehttps://www.schwarzwald-tourismus.info/attraktionen/schwarzwaelder-trachtenmuseum-haslach-494b1a2f4d

The museum was opened in 1980 in the renovated buildings of the abbey. It portrays the history and development of traditional folk costume in the Black Forest and its surrounding regions.[2]

Exhibits

The museum houses some of the most important original costumes from the following regions:

Over 100 life-size figures are displayed with many charming details for special occasions and from everyday.[3]

Influenced by the respective zeitgeist and fashion trends, by prosperity, poverty and denominational ties, the individual costumes of the Black Forest in the 18th century all have their own twist.[4]

Capuchin Abbey, Haslach, the site of the museum

Themes

The Old Capuchin abbey

The old Capuchin monastery (built 1630–32), which houses this collection of costumes, is the only completely preserved baroque monastery of the Capuchin order in all of southern Germany.[5]

References
  1. "Schwarzwälder Trachtenmuseum in Haslach". www.schwarzwald.com. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
  2. "Schwarzwälder Trachtenmuseum in Haslach". www.zum.de. Retrieved 2020-11-29.
  3. "Schwarzwälder Trachtenmuseum in Haslach". www.zum.de. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
  4. "Haslach im Kinzigtal: Trachtenmuseum". www.haslach.de. Retrieved 2020-11-29.
  5. "Haslach im Kinzigtal: Trachtenmuseum". www.haslach.de. Retrieved 2020-11-28.

Coordinates

48°16′33.91″N 8°5′6.90″E

  • The Old Capuchin abbey from the outside I
  • The Old Capuchin abbey from the outside II
  • The Old capuchin abbey
  • Church of the former Capuchin abbey
  • Hansjakob statue
  • Hansjakob statue
  • "Three Maidens from the Black Forest"
  • Villinger Tracht (1892)
  • Schwarzwälder Tracht worn by people from Furtwangen
  • Schwarzwälder Tracht
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