Truckerhaus

The indoor and outdoor museum

From the Truckerhaus Museum, you can hike out into nature with a map or geo-caching - to almost 50 sites in the village and in the forest, through the eventful history of the Weinsberg Forest.

From medieval settlement to industrialization and Habsburg rule to the economic crisis and resettlement - anyone who takes a look at the local history of this market town also takes a look at the history of Central Europe. The Weinsbergerwald is the largest closed forest region in Austria, and woodcutters, glassmakers, workers and aristocrats have always left their mark here.

Inside the Truckerhaus indoor and outdoor museum, the lives of the people of the Weinsbergerwald are brought to life by means of documents, pictures and eyewitness accounts. Not only the rich and powerful are told, but also the stories of the "ordinary" people. The tour then moves "outside", into the village and the forest. Around 50 traces of human activity have been documented and marked in the surrounding area and can be connected via the existing network of hiking trails . With the help of a map or geo-caching, you can hike along traces of the past, the remains of which have survived into the present day: On hollow paths thousands of years old, to medieval fortifications, to the once mighty Körner sawmills that employed up to 500 workers, along former railroad lines or to bomb craters from the Second World War (parts of the Weinsbergerwald were used by the German Air Force as a training and bombing range).

TIP: The stage in the Truckerhaus offers a varied cultural program with exhibitions, cabaret, music, film and readings.