Markneukirchen - Museum of Musical Instruments Attractions Musikinstrumentenmuseum
Markneukirchen, 20km/12.5mi west of Klingenthal, also makes musical instruments.
The town's principal attraction is the Paulusschlössel (1784), a Late Baroque palace with two semicircular tower-like projections on the facade. On the courtyard front and the west wing are arcades, galleries and the bronze figure of a violinist (1970).
The Paulusschlössel now houses the Museum of Musical Instruments (Musikinstrumentenmuseum), with some 2,700 instruments from Europe, the Islamic countries, the Far East, Africa and America. The collection includes viola da gambas from Nürnberg and Augsburg, a viola da gamba made by Johann Christian Hoffmann, a friend of Johann Sebastian Bach, accordions, musical boxes, barrel organs, phonographs and a valuable Swiss domestic organ of 1838. Examples of all the instruments now made in Markneukirchen, Klingenthal and Schöneck are displayed in the east wing.
The town's principal attraction is the Paulusschlössel (1784), a Late Baroque palace with two semicircular tower-like projections on the facade. On the courtyard front and the west wing are arcades, galleries and the bronze figure of a violinist (1970).
The Paulusschlössel now houses the Museum of Musical Instruments (Musikinstrumentenmuseum), with some 2,700 instruments from Europe, the Islamic countries, the Far East, Africa and America. The collection includes viola da gambas from Nürnberg and Augsburg, a viola da gamba made by Johann Christian Hoffmann, a friend of Johann Sebastian Bach, accordions, musical boxes, barrel organs, phonographs and a valuable Swiss domestic organ of 1838. Examples of all the instruments now made in Markneukirchen, Klingenthal and Schöneck are displayed in the east wing.
