On the half-timbered experience tour, you can listen to Montabaur's town history: Scan the QR code and listen.
Montabaur is full of history. If only the historic houses could tell you what they have seen... Now they do just that. Nine buildings in the town centre invite you to take a "half-timbered experience tour". If you scan the QR codes on the facades with your mobile phone, you will hear exciting stories. To make the walk suitable for family or school trips, there is a version for children in addition to the text for adults.
Old Montabaur comes back to life against a historical backdrop: Pilgrims, traders, farmers, merchants and onlookers stream into the town from St Peter's Gate. Carts full of goods bump down the Kirchstraße to the markets, where an incredible noise strains the nerves of the neighbours: Horses neigh, pigs grunt, sheep bleat, chickens cluck - and people haggle loudly for the best price.
But even behind the walls, things are lively and not always tranquil. Murder and manslaughter in the family lead to the division of a house. Young men are drunk senseless in the inn and wake up as forcibly recruited soldiers. Underground passages are dug out of cellars so that they can flee the town during sieges. The vicars of the parish church, who also teach the youth, are no role models, but run around and disrupt the masses with their chatter.
And then there are the rumours: is it true that the Holy Robe of Jesus was hidden in the wall of a half-timbered house in Montabaur during the French Revolution before finally being kept safe in Trier Cathedral? And what happened to Richard von Greifenklau, Archbishop and Elector? He allegedly fell ill after drinking a cold drink from a Westerwald spring. A few months later he is dead...
Let yourself be surprised!
