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Museum of Tannery and Local History Hirschberg

Museum of Tannery and Local History Hirschberg

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Museum of Tannery and Local History Hirschberg

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Location: Hirschberg, Saale-Orla-Kreis, Vogtland, Saxony, Germany

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Sebastian Kowalke

May 15, 2019

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Until the 1990s, the tannery was the main industry in Hirschberg. After the tannery had to declare bankruptcy in 1992, the factory buildings were demolished. The administration building and the archive were, however, taken over by the city together with a number of tools and machines and transformed into a museum. The museum opened in 1997 and in addition to many information on leatherworking, you will also learn a lot about the history of Hirschberg here.

The opening times can be found at museum-hirschberg.de.

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Ragnar Jakobsson

September 28, 2025

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A very beautiful historic building with historic furnishings.

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Norðurljós

May 14, 2017

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The production of leather in the 20th century shaped the economic profile and with 16 hectares of floor space also the cityscape of Hirschberg.

From a small tannery on the …

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Location: Hirschberg, Saale-Orla-Kreis, Vogtland, Saxony, Germany

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