Weißenfels (dpa/sa) - The Weißenfels Museum in Neu-Augustusburg Castle, known for its special shoe collections, is now showing baroque examples in an exhibition. After the vernissage of "Slippers and Heels" on Sunday in the Castle Church of St. Trinitatis, the majority of the 140 shoes from the years 1600 to 1820 will be on display in the museum until May 14, 2023. During this period, Weißenfels was, according to information from the city administration, the residential town of the Saxony-Weißenfels side line in Electoral Saxony and an important cultural center. The Weissenfels Museum houses the largest shoe museum in the new federal states with shoes from all over the world and many celebrities.
The reason: shoes were produced in Weißenfels for centuries, from 1900 the city was considered a center of modern industrial shoe manufacture in Europe. Founded in 1910, the museum shows shoes from antiquity to the present day. The collection is regularly expanded, it is said. According to the city, since opening it has grown to more than 8,000 copies.
