Württemberg-Haus Beutelsbach - Museum Wiege Württembergs und Museum Bauernkrieg

Museum Cradle of Württemberg

Beutelsbach is a central place in the history of the state of Württemberg. Around 1080 it was the headquarters of the Lords of Beutelsbach, with their first ancestral castle on the Kappelberg above the village, before they built a new castle in the Neckar valley called “Württemberg”, after which they named themselves from then on. The Museum Wiege Württembergs is the only museum in the country that presents the early history of Württemberg until Stuttgart became the unrestricted capital around 1320. Excavations from Kappelberg Castle, pictures, documents and original objects from later times, which testify to the former importance of Beutelsbach ("Bei uns im Staate Beutelsbach") illustrate this journey through time to the origins of Württemberg.



Museum of the Peasant War

A second time in 1514 Beutelsbach wrote (state) history: Here began and ended “poor Konrad”, the largest and most important uprising in the run-up to the Great Peasant War of 1525. In the struggle for their “old right”, farmers and citizens, men and women of Württemberg signed up for justice and freedom. The museum documents the dramatic events of 1514, gives an outlook on the peasant war and spans the arc between participation and protest to the present day.

The Peasants´ War Museum is now “officially” recognized as a “place of democratic history” in Germany by the “Places of German Democratic History Foundation”, which issues plaques for museums and memorials classified as such. Such a plaque has recently been attached to the large information board of the Württemberg-Haus Wunschbach in front of the outside staircase.


Information and events:
Dr. Bernd Breyvogel
City archivist and
Museum Director
Telephone 07151 6045873

Information and booking of guided tours:
Yvonne Grundey
Telephone 07151 9854798