Köthen - Schloss (Museum)

The Schloss in Köthen is in Renaissance style (1547-1608). In the north wing, the Ferdinandsbau (added in 1823 by Gottfried Bandhauer), is the Naumann Museum, named after the zoologist Johann Friedrich Naumann (1780-1857), founder of scientific ornithology in Germany. It is the only ornithological museum of the Biedermeier period to have survived in its original condition. In addition to Naumann's collections of birds, the museum also displays his watercolors.

Bach associations

In the Ludwigsbau wing of the Schloss (1823) can be seen a room in which Johann Sebastian Bach lived and worked. There is also a Bach memorial room in the Historical Museum in Museumsgasse.