Discover Öschingen: Museum, History and Trails
Accommodation in Öschingen
Öschingen combines the Klaus Herzer Woodcut Museum, traces of former buildings and a trail through the landscape. The main points of interest are the Klaus Herzer Woodcut Museum in Öschingen’s old town hall dating from 1700, the castle site in Schenkenbaumgarten and the route from the Roßberghaus via the Öschenbach up to the Filsenberg. This gives the town several concrete points of reference for a stay in which culture, local history and outdoor activity can be given different levels of emphasis.
The Klaus Herzer Woodcut Museum is housed in Öschingen’s old town hall, dating from 1700. The building itself combines a museum visit with a historic structure in the town.
The museum contains around 1,800 sheets produced using woodcut and metal-printing techniques. This collection is complemented by printing blocks, wooden sculptures and monotypes. It also includes the large Grieshaber printing press and another proof press. The range therefore extends from finished printed sheets to the materials and equipment associated with various printing techniques.
In Schenkenbaumgarten, the former castle site still features a castle mound as well as ramparts and ditches. The former complex is therefore present not only in name but also through recognizable terrain structures. Another historical point of interest is the former Öschingen grist mill on the Öschenbach: its construction was made possible in spring 1764 by an agreement between the municipality of Öschingen and the millers of Gönningen.
The field name recorded in 1522 suggests that wine was cultivated in Halden on the southern slopes of the Firstberg. Öschingen’s small historic monuments include the Hauhäusle and the Unternhardthäusle.
First Castle on the Firstberg is associated with the minor noblemen known as the Lords of First. Kraft von Firste first appears in a document in 1288, and Marquart von Firste in 1300. These two dates provide a precisely defined timeframe for the connection between the castle and the noble family. Historically interested visitors thus encounter a townscape in which terrain traces, buildings and medieval references in place names stand side by side.
Trails through the landscape
From the Roßberghaus hiking lodge, a trail leads down through a wooded ravine west of the Langenberg to the small road along the Öschenbach. It then continues uphill along a lightly trafficked road to the Filsenberg. The route therefore includes various landscape elements: a wooded ravine, the area alongside the stream and the further ascent to the Filsenberg. If you include this section in your day’s itinerary, you should consider the transitions and the road section as separate parts of the route.
Öschingen for Planning Your Stay
The museum focuses on woodcut and metal printing, printing blocks, sculptures and historic presses. The castle site in Schenkenbaumgarten and First Castle, by contrast, lead into the town’s history.
You should not mentally combine the different sites into a single complex or a continuous circular trail. Each location has its own historical or landscape connection.
For the overarching travel overview: Tübingen.
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