Automobile Welt Eisenach is a

car museum An automotive museum is a museum that explores the history of automotive-related transportation. * Bold – museums owned by automotive manufacturers * ''Italics'' – no longer open to public access, excluding private or invitation-only collec ...

located in the old East German town of

Eisenach Eisenach () is a Town#Germany, town in Thuringia, Germany with 42,000 inhabitants, west of Erfurt, southeast of Kassel and northeast of Frankfurt. It is the main urban centre of western Thuringia, and bordering northeastern Hesse, Hessian re ...

adjacent to the banks of the

Hörsel The Hörsel () is a long river in Thuringia, Germany, right tributary of the Werra. It is formed by the confluence of two smaller rivers in Leinatal, at the northern edge of the Thuringian Forest. The Hörsel flows generally northwest through th ...

river. It is situated on the old

Automobilwerk Eisenach The Automobilwerk Eisenach (AWE) was an automobile manufacturer in Eisenach, Germany. History Fahrzeugfabrik Eisenach Heinrich Ehrhardt founded the Fahrzeugfabrik Eisenach (FFE) in Eisenach on 3 December 1896 as a stock company. Init ...

factory site, one of the world's oldest, and opened as a museum in 2005 utilising building O2 from 1935.

Exhibits

The museum chronicles the history of car manufacturing in Eisenach from 1899, through the Dixi and BMW pre-war years, and the development of the

German Democratic Republic East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from Foundation of East Germany, its formation on 7 October 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on ...

car industry with EMW,

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and

Wartburg The Wartburg () is a castle originally built in the Middle Ages. It is situated on a precipice of to the southwest of and overlooking the town of Eisenach, in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It was the home of St. Elisabeth of Hungary, the ...

, and the post-unification

Opel Opel Automobile GmbH (), usually shortened to Opel, is a German automobile manufacturer which has been a subsidiary of Stellantis since 16 January 2021. It was owned by the American automaker General Motors from 1929 until 2017 and the PSA Gr ...

models. File:AWE BMW 328.jpg File:EMW 340-2 Limousine 1953 - Flickr - KlausNahr.jpg File:Wartburg 313-1 Sportcoupe 1958 - Flickr - KlausNahr.jpg File:Wartburg 1.3 Rally Trailer.jpg

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* {{authority control Automobile museums in Germany Museums in Thuringia Buildings and structures in Eisenach Museums established in 2005 2005 establishments in Germany