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© Photo: Mirjam Diezel

Kirchenburgmuseum Mönchsondheim (Open-air museum Kirchenburg Mönchsondheim)

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Opening Times
Open today 10:00-18:00
Address
An der Kirchenburg 5
97346 Iphofen
Contact

In the heart of a small Franconian village is an open-air museum of a very special kind: all the museum buildings are in their original locations! Buildings from four centuries are grouped around a fortified church, including a school, a town hall, an inn, a grocer's shop and a small farm. Newly designed permanent exhibitions in the rooms of the fortified church provide information about this type of building, about viticulture, crafts and life in the Main Franconian village. In the permanent exhibition "archäosuntheim", excavation finds made on site can also be viewed.

Last edited on 28.03.2025

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  • Opening Times

    Open today 10:00-18:00

    In the timeframe of 01. April until 31. October:

    • Tuesdays: 10:00-18:00
    • Wednesdays: 10:00-18:00
    • Thursdays: 10:00-18:00
    • Fridays: 10:00-18:00
    • Saturdays: 10:00-18:00
    • Sundays: 10:00-18:00

    In the timeframe of 01. November until 03. December:

    • Saturdays: 10:00-16:00
    • Sundays: 10:00-16:00

    Holidays:

    • 18.04.2025
      Good Friday: 10:00-18:00
    • 20.04.2025
      Easter Sunday: 10:00-18:00
    • 21.04.2025
      Easter Monday: 10:00-18:00
    • 01.05.2025
      Labour Day: 10:00-18:00
    • 29.05.2025
      Ascension Day: 10:00-18:00
    • 09.06.2025
      Pentecost Monday: 10:00-18:00
    • 19.06.2025
      Corpus Christi: 10:00-18:00
    • 15.08.2025
      Assumption Day: 10:00-18:00
    • 03.10.2025
      Day of German Unity: 10:00-18:00
    • 01.11.2025
      All Saints' Day: 10:00-16:00

    Closed on all other holidays

  • Inclusion

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  • Offers

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  • Digital Offers

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  • Contact

    Address

    An der Kirchenburg 5
    97346 Iphofen

    Telephone contact

    • General enquiries: 09326/1224

    E-Mail

    info​(at)​kirchenburgmuseum.de (opens your email program)

    Website

    http://www.kirchenburgmuseum.de (external link, opens in a new window)

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    Tourism Region

    Franconia

Image gallery

Herb garden with half-timbered house in the background (opens enlarged image)
© Kirchenburgmuseum Mönchsondheim. Photo: Mirjam Diezel
A man and a woman push their bicycles past a beer garden, a half-timbered house can be seen in the background (opens enlarged image)
© Kirchenburgmuseum Mönchsondheim. Photo: Viktor Meshko
A lathe and other handicraft equipment in the showroom (opens enlarged image)
© Photo: Viktor Meshko
Shot of a bowling alley with perspective from the pins and view of the players (opens enlarged image)
© Photo: Viktor Meshko
A young woman stands with a pointer at a historical school blackboard, visitors sit in the foreground (opens enlarged image)
© Kirchenburgmuseum Mönchsondheim. Photo: Viktor Meshko
A man looks at a historic tractor together with his son, whom he carries on his shoulders. (opens enlarged image)
© Photo: Viktor Meshko
Two grandparents together with their grandchild look at a historical agricultural implement (opens enlarged image)
© Photo: Viktor Meshko
A front of various half-timbered houses with archway and church tower in the background (opens enlarged image)
© Kirchenburgmuseum Mönchsondheim. Photo: Reinhard Hüßner
Exterior view of a dwelling house overgrown with vines (opens enlarged image)
© Photo: Nathalie Ungar
Exhibition installation with round information boards on the back of which different grape varieties can be seen. (opens enlarged image)
© Photo: Viktor Meshko
Visitors at a historic inn table (opens enlarged image)
© Photo: Viktor Meshko
Shot of a historic wine cellar in frog perspective, dozens of round portraits of wine queens hanging from the ceiling (opens enlarged image)
© Photo: Viktor Meshko
Two bottles at a historic filling station; a wine barrel can be seen to the right (opens enlarged image)
© Photo: Viktor Meshko
Historic living room with elaborately decorated furniture (opens enlarged image)
© Photo: Viktor Meshko

Exhibitions

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