Local History Museum Heilig-Geist Chapel Treuenbrietzen

In 1939 the building was opened as a local history museum.
There are exhibitions of testimonies to prehistory and early history, the history of the city and crafts, as well as personalities from the region.

The Heimatmuseum was originally a city tower on the city wall. It was first mentioned in 1352 as the Holy Spirit Chapel. The building served as a place of religion for poor craftsmen and travelers. After the Thirty Years' War, the Holy Spirit Chapel fell into disrepair. For years it remained as a ruin. In 1872 the ruin was to be replaced by a memorial, which was prohibited by the monument protection authority. It wasn't until 1936 that the ruins were removed. It received a half-timbered floor and a conical roof. The teacher Oskar Brachwitz set up his collection of local history items there. In 1939 the building was opened as a local museum.

Beautiful building (former Holy Spirit Chapel) of the local history museum in Treuenbrietzen.