Would you like to go on a journey of discovery through Bruchsal together with others? Whether as a school class, with the kindergarten group or at a children’s birthday party – there is a lot to experience. Here the Middle Ages come to life again and you get to know the life of knights and nobles, climb the oldest building, the magnificent donjon, and learn how children lived and played in earlier times.
You get to know famous and less famous children in earlier centuries and take a look, for example, at little Ferdinand, the grandson of Margravine Amalie. Together with his cousins, he celebrated his children’s birthdays at the Jagdschlösschen, on top of the magnificent Belvedere. The poor Bruchsal family of craftsmen and 12 children lived under one roof in the tiny house of the Schumacher Rill – hardly imaginable!
Note: an adult companion is required
Duration: approx. 1.5 hours
Meeting point: main entrance to the baroque palace
Groups: max. 25 children
Price on request
Booking: Touristinformatio, Tel. 07251 50594-60, touristinformation@btmv.de
With one or two fairy tales in your luggage, we will take you into the world of the Rill shoemaker’s shop in Bruchsal’s “Klostergass”. It was not the pixies who made the shoes here, but Mr. Rill.
You will learn a lot about the craft of the shoemaker and the arduous way of life of craftsman families in the past centuries. You can also explore the renovated shoemaker’s house with its “wooden worm staircase” to the warehouse, as well as Klosterstrasse.
Note:
An adult companion is required. Suitable for children aged 5 to 10 years.
Duration: approx. 1.5 hours
Meeting point: corner of Huttenstrasse / Klosterstrasse
Groups: max. 20 children
Price on request
Booking: Tourist Information, Tel. 07251 50594-60, touristinformation@btmv.de
At that time, Prince-Bishop Damian Hugo von Schönborn created an enchantingly beautiful palace garden. Big and with lots of green and space for magical moments. On this guided tour for children, we go in search of small, historical creatures. After all, who would believe that there were gnomes and dwarfs here in the Bruchsal palace gardens in the 18th century? You have to be very quiet so that we can discover them and listen to their exciting stories about the dwarf in the park and Rumpelstiltskin.
Upstairs, at the nearby Belvedere, the former shooting house of the Prince-Bishops, the Margravine Amalie, widow of the Grand Duke, celebrated numerous festivals and birthday parties for her grandchildren. Here is an ideal place to tell the fairy tales of the queen bee and the Sleeping Beauty. You can also learn for yourself how to spin a real thread with the spindle.
Note : an adult companion is required
Suitable for children from 6 years.
Duration: approx. 2 hours
Meeting point: Start: Bruchsal Baroque Palace, end at the Belvedere
Groups: max. 25 children
Price on request
Booking: Tourist Information, Tel. 07251 50594-60, touristinformation@btmv.de
“Once upon a time” … and the time has come. Together you climb the historic keep in the heart of Bruchsal. Here the Middle Ages come to life again, the time of kings and emperors, but also the life of poor farmers. Once at the top, you can enjoy a splendid panoramic view of the entire city and immerse yourself in the exciting world of fairy tales.
Note :
An adult companion is required.
Suitable for children aged 5 to 10 years.
Fairy tales about the Middle Ages are also offered for children aged 10 to 12.
Duration: approx. 1.5 hours
Meeting point: in front of the city library
Groups: max. 20 children
Price on request
Booking: Tourist Information, Tel. 07251 50594-60, touristinformation@btmv.de
Using experiments and true-to-original replicas of Stone Age tools, this practice-oriented and eventful tour leads through the Stone Age. Everyday life 6,000 years ago is thus coming back to life. Stone axes,
Looms, tools made of bones and wood give an idea of how diverse life must have been and how difficult it must have been for people to survive at that time.
During the tour you will also get to know Michi, the popular mascot of the municipal museum. How was fire made in the past? How was grain grown and how was it made into bread? How was it woven? And what tools were used in the past? Very understandable for our young museum visitors, Michi explains what his life was like in the Stone Age.
Duration: approx. 1 hour
Meeting point: main entrance to the baroque palace
Group: max. 25 people
Price: Combination ticket (castle, German Museum of Music Automatons, Municipal Museum at the current admission price.)
Booking: Städtisches Museum, Bruchsal, Tel. 07251 79-253, or Thomas Adam, Tel. 07251 79-380. Fax 07251 7911380, thomas.adam@bruchsal.de
What is actually going on behind the curtain? During the theater tour in the Bruchsal City Theater, our theater educators will take you to the big stage, the director’s pulpit, the make-up, tailoring and costume stores. During the tour you are allowed to ask numerous questions to all departments and you are welcome to try on one or the other costume yourself. There is a lot of exciting things for you to see and hear!
Duration: between 45 and 120 minutes depending on the age of the children.
Meeting point: SU stage entrance
Groups: max. 30 people
Price: free
Booking: Tel. 07251 72737 or Tel. 07251 72728
A look behind the scenes of the Badische Landesbühne
Take a trip back in time to the Heidelsheim past with Peter Schwedes and Petra Heermann. Together with them you climb the cat tower. In doing so, they tell many a story from the past. What were the teachers’ punishments for the students? What were the underground passages used for? And where were the thieves and robbers imprisoned? You will learn how busy the life of the tower guards used to be, what tasks the tower keeper family had and the tower keepers show you how one lived in the cat tower.
Note:
Suitable for children aged approx. 5 – 12 years. An adult companion is required.
Duration: approx. 1.5 hours
Meeting point: by the fountain on the market square
Groups: max. 25 children
Price on request
Booking: Tourist Information, Tel. 07251 5059460, touristinformation@btmv.de
