German Bratwurst Museum

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The 1st German Bratwurst Museum is a theme park and museum dedicated to the subject of bratwurst, especially the Thuringian Rostbratwurst, located in Mühlhausen/Thuringia. The amusement park and museum were opened in May 2006 in Holzhausen near Arnstadt, closed in April 2020, and reopened in September 2023 in Mühlhausen/Thuringia.

The 1st German Bratwurst Museum was opened on May 28, 2006, in Holzhausen, a district of the municipality Amt Wachsenburg in the Ilm-Kreis, 6 km from Arnstadt. The museum has been ideologically supported by the association Friends of the Thuringian Bratwurst e. V. since its foundation. The museum collected information about pig breeds, meat and sausage processing, recipes, and devices for slaughtering and producing the Thuringian bratwurst. The centerpiece is the documented first mention of bratwurst on January 20, 1404, in an account by Johann von Siebeleben, Provost of the Walpurgis Monastery of Arnstadt, which was later dissolved during the Reformation. In this document, it is stated that "1 gr for intestines for bratwurst" (1 Groschen for bratwurst casings) was spent. In January 2008, the exhibition was expanded...