Back to the off topic of automobile museums in Germany. Sorry for the delay, but I had forgotten the name of the place and had to ask my sister (who accompanied me on that trip) to look it up in her albums. Anyway, I guess it is still there because they have a website:
http://www.fahrzeugmuseum-marxzell.de/ The woman pictured on the top of the first page with the explanation (translated to english) of "We mourn the loss of our woman director" is Klara Reichert who was our hostess when we visited in 1995. After 5pm, she closed the museum and gave us a private tour of a 2nd non-public warehouse that was literally stacked from floor to 2nd story mezzanine wall to wall with really amazing transportation items, mostly cars. Her (deceased by that time) husband had traveled the world gathering the display items. He had so much stuff that there were two warehouses full, hence our private tour into the 2nd one.
Here's a quote from an english brochure about the place:Quote:
Eight kilometers (5miles) on the road to Karsruhe, lies the vaillage of Marxzell. A group of ancient locamotive and other old machines at the side of the road announces th presence of the Fahrzeugmuseum, a wonderland for the technically minded. Every kind of early engine is represented in this museum dedicated to the German automobile pioner Karl Benz (1844-1929), the man who the Germans claim built the first practical automobile in 1888, a claim hotly disputed by the French.
We all thought it was the best auto-type museum we had visited in Germany. We had visited the D-T in Munich (mentioned in previous post) as well as the BMW and Porsche ones, so that is saying something!
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