A few years ago my cousin, Walter Bauer, built up a small private museum for the local dresses (Tracht). His mother started to collect these dresses and she did wear them all day long. She was known in the whole county for that.
The museum gives you a very good impression about the various dressings of the older days. If you are in Wankheim you should try to make an appointment with Walter to get a tour through his treasures.
| The Sunday dress varies depending on the status of the woman. The colors for a married women are different compared to women who are still single. |
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The festival dresses are very colorful but only weared at special occasions. |
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The lady on the left shows how women have been balancing the bread dough in a straw basket on their head on their way to the city bakery. A small rectangle wood piece with the initials of the family was put on top of the dough for later identification of the bread in the bakery. |
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At the occasion of a weeding in former days this wedding pictures have been made. This one was made at the occasion of the wedding of Sigmund Schettler and his wife Katharine (Bauer) Schettler. They were married on October 26, 1911. In the middle is the wedding crown of the bride. |
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Here we have a special version of an arm chair. If you have a closer look, you can see, that |
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