The Black Forest Costume Museum (german: Schwarzwälder Trachtenmuseum) is a

museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make th ...

in the

convent A convent is a community of monks, nuns, religious brothers or, sisters or priests. Alternatively, ''convent'' means the building used by the community. The word is particularly used in the Catholic Church, Lutheran churches, and the Angl ...

building of the former Capuchin abbey in

Haslach im Kinzigtal Haslach im Kinzigtal (literally ''Haslach in the Kinzig (Rhine), Kinzig valley''; gsw, label=Low Alemannic German, Low Alemannic, Haaslä) is a small city in the Black Forest in the district Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg in south-western Germa ...

in the

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

county of Ortenaukreis in south

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. The museum was opened in 1980 in the renovated buildings of the

abbey An abbey is a type of monastery used by members of a religious order under the governance of an abbot or abbess. Abbeys provide a complex of buildings and land for religious activities, work, and housing of Christian monks and nuns. The c ...

. It portrays the history and development of traditional

folk costume A folk costume (also regional costume, national costume, traditional garment, or traditional regalia) expresses an identity through costume, which is usually associated with a geographic area or a period of time in history. It can also indicat ...

in the

Black Forest The Black Forest (german: Schwarzwald ) is a large forested mountain range in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, bounded by the Rhine Valley to the west and south and close to the borders with France and Switzerland. It is ...

and its surrounding regions.

Exhibits

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

Central Black Forest The Central Black Forest (german: Mittlerer Schwarzwald), also called the Middle Black Forest, is a natural or cultural division of the Black Forest in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It generally refers to a region of deeply incised valleys from t ...

Southern Black Forest The Southern Black Forest (german: Südschwarzwald) is the highest part of the Black Forest, an area heavily transformed by ice age glaciation south of a line roughly from Freiburg im Breisgau to Donaueschingen. The term High Black Forest is no ...

Northern Black Forest The Northern Black Forest (german: Nordschwarzwald) refers to the northern third of the Black Forest in Germany or, less commonly today, to the northern half of this mountain region. Geography The Northern Black Forest is bounded in the north ...

(Foothills on the Upper Rhine Plain) * Black Forest perimeter * Ried *

Breisgau The Breisgau () is an area in southwest Germany between the Rhine River and the foothills of the Black Forest. Part of the state of Baden-Württemberg, it centers on the city of Freiburg im Breisgau. The district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, ...

Markgräflerland Markgräflerland () is a region in the southwest of Germany, in the south of the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg, located between the Breisgau in the north and the Black Forest in the east; adjacent to west with France and in the south ...

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

Themes

* Bonnets and hats, e. g. the ''

Bollenhut A (, literally "ball-hat") is a formal headdress with distinctive woollen pompoms worn since by Protestant women as part of their folk costume or in the three adjoining Black Forest villages of Gutach, Kirnbach and Hornberg-Reichenbach. ...

'' *

Bridal crown Traditionally a bridal crown (german: Brautkrone or, in the Black Forest, ''Schäppel'') is a headdress that, in Central and Northern Europe, single women wear on certain holidays, at festivals and, finally, at their wedding. Bridal crowns today ...

s (''Schäppel'' ) * Civic dress * Work clothing

The Old Capuchin abbey

The old Capuchin monastery (built 1630–32), which houses this collection of costumes, is the only completely preserved

baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including ...

monastery of the Capuchin order in all of southern Germany.

References

External links

Black Forest Costume Museum

Coordinates

{{Coord, 48, 16, 33.91, N, 8, 5, 6.90, E, type:landmark_region:DE-BW

Photo gallery

File:Haslach Kapuzinerkloster 2.jpg, The Old Capuchin abbey from the outside I File:Haslach Kapuzinerkloster 1.jpg, The Old Capuchin abbey from the outside II File:Haslach Klosterkirche und Klosterbach.jpg, The Old capuchin abbey File:Haslach, Kirche des ehem. Kapuzinerklosters, Innenansicht 1.jpg, Church of the former Capuchin abbey File:Haslach Hansjakob-Denkmal 02.jpg, Hansjakob statue File:Haslach Hansjakob-Denkmal 01.jpg, Hansjakob statue File:Drei Schwarzwälder Mädchen (SM 6662z).png, "Three Maidens from the Black Forest" File:Oskar Suck - Alte Villinger Tracht (Abdruck 1892).jpg, '' Villinger Tracht'' (1892) File:Tracht Furtwangen 1999.jpg, ''Schwarzwälder Tracht'' worn by people from Furtwangen File:Schwarzwälder Tracht1.jpg, ''Schwarzwälder Tracht'' Folk costumes Museums in Baden-Württemberg Tourist attractions in Baden-Württemberg Buildings and structures in Ortenaukreis Folk museums in Germany Black Forest Costume museums Culture of Baden-Württemberg Museums established in 1980