Heimatmuseum Empfingen

The Heimatmuseum in Empfingen sits in a 1737 Zehntscheuer built by the Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. It stands beside the church and the town hall in the village centre. The building once served as a municipal storage yard before local volunteers converted it into a museum. The displays cover life from 1850 to 1950 across five floors. Visitors see tools and objects of masons, stone-cutters, brickmakers, joiners, painters, shoemakers, coopers and wheelwrights. Rooms also show rural homes, farms and the work of country doctors and chemists. Exhibits recall the Kaiserreich, the two world wars and Empfingen’s earliest history. Next door, the village smithy museum occupies the old granary. It keeps the last farrier and cartwright’s forge exactly as it was in 1930. The smithy stayed in use until 1983 and still hosts demonstrations. Outside, old boundary stones mark the limits of former estates in Empfingen and Wiesenstetten.