Museum of the City of Eberbach

Permanent Exhibition

Station 35

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Armin Stähle

On the last landing on the left hang two works by contemporary painters. Armin Stähle (1939 - 2008) was from Eberbach and worked as an art teacher at the Eberbach grammar school. He painted "Die Braun`sche Uhr" in 1992. The picture is composed of many tiny details about the history of the town of Eberbach. In the centre of the picture is a red, very long grandfather clock. It refers to the famous Eberbach clockmaker Franz Jacob Braun (1735- 813), of whom the museum owns several grandfather clocks. All around her, small and tiny pictures fill the picture space. It is basically a hidden object picture of the centuries that have passed since Eberbach was founded almost 800 years ago and during which time was measured by the clocks in the church tower and in the living rooms. To the left of the red clock you can see the old iron bridge over the Neckar River, which was deliberately destroyed at the end of the war in 1945. Below it is a picture of the "red crocodile" that lived in the Eberbach region 250 million years ago. Its footprint was found on the Scheuerberg. If you take your time, you can still discover a lot: on the far left of the picture edge, a knight pointing with his index finger to the red crocodile. To the right of the clock is another Braun grandfather clock and the famous "last wolf", which stands stuffed in a display case in the forest section one floor up. He was shot in 1866. In between, there are many portraits of Eberbach personalities from the past and present. The best known, to the right of the clock, is that of Dr. John Weiss, who was mayor of Eberbach for 34 years from 1893 to 1927. If you look for it in the crowd, you will also find Thalheim`s house with its stepped gable and even the Eberbach cuckoo, to which the annual "Kuckucksmarkt" owes its name.