Nebra local history museum
Nebra local history museum
The first documentary mention of the city of Nebra dates back to the year 876 - but it was not until May 1, 1999, in a joint effort with committed citizens, that a museum facility was opened in Nebra. Today you can find here all the things that belonged to everyday life in our town in the time between 1850 and 1950 - be it in the house yard or garden.
A lovingly assembled collection provides insights into the urban development of the former agrarian town of Nebra from its beginnings to the present day. Marvel with your children at a collection of dolls' houses and toys, immerse yourself in the hard everyday life of winegrowers, farmers and craftsmen through handicraft tools of the various trades or enjoy the unique scent of freshly washed, embroidered white linen of Nebra housewives.
However, part of the exhibition is also devoted to the events surrounding the sky disc, its function and relationship to the stars, as well as the people of that time.
The Hedwig Courths-Mahler Archive
Who does not know them, the novels of Hedwig-Courths-Mahler?
Born Ernestine Friederike Elisabeth Mahler in Nebra on February 18, 1867, a plaque on her birthplace in Laternengasse today commemorates the indefatigable writer.
Active Nebra residents collected the few preserved personal items and writings of the legendary HCM in a separate exhibition in the Heimathaus of our town.
With her wonderful stories of love, loyalty, goodness and steadfastness, Hedwig Courths-Mahler enchants her readers time and again. She wrote more than 200 romance novels, which were very popular during her lifetime and are still available in abridged form as regularly published staple novels to the present day, making her probably the most successful German novelist in terms of copies sold.
She was considered a "kitsch author", her novels were frowned upon and banned as trivial literature in GDR times - but even Bertolt Brecht said about the successful author: "If she didn't exist, she'd have to be invented!"
You too can make your own picture of an unusual woman who became a legend herself with her "fairy tales for adults".
When Courths-Mahler died in 1950 at her home in Tegernsee, she had published a total of 208 light novels and novellas, which were translated into numerous languages and reached a total circulation of an estimated 80 million copies.
In front of the Heimathaus, directly at the market, there is a modern memorial desk that honors HCM's tireless literary work. HCM thus joins a list of important women who worked or had their roots in Saxony-Anhalt and who are commemorated by the "FrauenOrte" project.
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Germany
Nebra
06642
Wide street 28