Hutzlerhaus

Hutzlerhaus is the name of a historic three-storey building in Feucht, in the Landkreis Nürnberger Land of Bavaria, Germany. It is best known today as the home of the Zeidelmuseum, a museum founded in 1986 that documents the history of beekeeping and of the historical Zeidlerei — the medieval forest honey-and-wax trade that flourished in the imperial Reichswald around Feucht. The building is a listed cultural heritage monument (Baudenkmal). The house takes its name from Hans Hutzler, described as its last private owner. After his death no heirs were willing to invest in the renovation and restoration of the protected building in order to keep using it. The municipality of Feucht therefore acquired the building ensemble, had it restored from the ground up, and handed it over to the Zeidlerwesen-Erhaltungs-Verein (the association for the preservation of the Zeidlerei tradition) so that a museum could be established there. That association had been founded ten years earlier by the pharmacist Wolfgang Mittwoch together with fellow bee enthusiasts. The museum's collection was assembled from the members' own holdings and from objects gathered throughout Germany and beyond. It includes equipment from Franconia, Thuringia, the Black Forest and the Lüneburger Heide: Klotzbeuten (log hives), bee baskets, beekeepers' pipes, historical beekeeping costumes and modern protective clothing, honey extractors, Zeidler knives, queen cages, honeycomb frames, wax moulds and more. The museum also holds literature on the history of beekeeping as well as scientific works on bee science, honey flow, modern apiculture, apitherapy and the antibiotic effects of bee products, and it houses the library of the Landesverband Bayerischer Imker (Bavarian Beekeepers' Association). Bee products, including honey bearing the quality seal of the Deutscher Imkerbund, can be purchased during the volunteer-run opening hours. Association members can be booked for talks, and courses are offered for beginner beekeepers, advanced beekeepers and queen rearing; practical instruction takes place at the teaching apiary built by members in 1988 in the Gauchsbachgrund. The museum rooms also serve as an art gallery for changing exhibitions by regional and supra-regional artists. As a commercial entity, Hutzlerhaus is best understood as a historic building name and local heritage trademark rather than an operating company: it is the namesake and physical home of the Zeidelmuseum and its supporting association, and it is documented as a cultural heritage monument in the Landkreis Nürnberger Land.

The Hutzlerhaus is a three-storey, listed building in Feucht, in the Landkreis Nürnberger Land in Bavaria, Germany. Its name derives from Hans Hutzler, described as the last owner of the house. Feucht's location within the imperial Reichswald had made the area a centre of beekeeping and of honey-and-wax production — the so-called Zeidlerei — since the Middle Ages, and the Hutzlerhaus is bound up with that local tradition. After Hans Hutzler's death, no heirs were found who were willing to invest in the renovation and restoration of the heritage-protected house in order to continue using it. The municipality of Feucht therefore acquired the building ensemble, had it restored from the ground up, and made the house available to the Zeidlerwesen-Erhaltungs-Verein so that a museum could be set up there. That association had been founded ten years earlier by the pharmacist Wolfgang Mittwoch together with his bee-keeping friends. Association members had already displayed some demonstration objects in the school auditorium before the museum was created. The Zeidelmuseum itself was founded in 1986 in the former Hutzlerhaus. Its members contributed old and new beekeeping equipment from their own collections and gathered further objects throughout Germany and beyond. The exhibition includes equipment from Franconia, Thuringia, the Black Forest and the Lüneburger Heide, with Klotzbeuten (log hives), bee baskets, beekeepers' pipes, historical beekeeping costumes and current functional clothing, honey extractors, Zeidler knives, queen cages, honeycomb frames, wax moulds and other items. The museum also holds literature on the history of beekeeping and scientific treatises on bee science, honey flow and modern apiculture, apitherapy and the antibiotic effect of bee products, and it houses the library of the Landesverband Bayerischer Imker. Bee products, including honey carrying the quality seal of the Deutscher Imkerbund, can be bought during the volunteer-supervised opening hours. Association members can be booked for talks, and courses are offered for beginner beekeepers, advanced beekeepers and queen rearing. Practical instruction takes place at the teaching apiary built by the members in 1988 in the Gauchsbachgrund. The museum rooms also serve as an art gallery for changing exhibitions by regional and supra-regional artists from various fields. In the wider record, the building is documented as a cultural heritage monument in the Landkreis Nürnberger Land, Bavaria, Germany.

• The Zeidlerwesen-Erhaltungs-Verein is founded by pharmacist Wolfgang Mittwoch and bee-keeping friends, ten years before the museum opens.

• The Zeidelmuseum is founded in the former Hutzlerhaus in Feucht.

• Association members build the teaching apiary in the Gauchsbachgrund.

Historic listed building and heritage site in Feucht, Bavaria, known as the home of the Zeidelmuseum beekeeping museum.

1. 1Pfinzingstraße 6 (Wikidata)wikidata.org
2. 2Zeidelmuseum (Wikipedia, German)de.wikipedia.org