English Version: German Hunting and Fishing Museum - Wolpertinger Collection in Munich
How do Bavaria live with the Wolpertinger? The enigmatic Wolpertinger collection in the "German Hunting and Fishing Museum" in Munich
The Hunting and Fishing Museum in Munich shows various Wolpertinger specimens
Munich. The Wolpertinger species only exists in Bavaria. In the pedestrian zone between Stachus and Marienplatz, the former Augustinian Church can be found on Neuhauser Straße. The German Hunting and Fishing Museum has found its home in this Gothic basilica. A large bronze fish, a catfish (Bavarian catfish), and a bronze wild boar invite children to climb. Parents, aunts, uncles and grandparents immediately pull out their cameras. These rare Wolpertinger are said to exist here. But: What is a Wolpertinger? Tourists are completely overwhelmed. There's only one thing to do: LOOK. It's open every day - including Mondays! Since 1966, the German Hunting and Fishing Museum has been located in the former Augustinian Church (Neuhauser Straße 2, 80331 Munich - opening hours: Monday to Sunday 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., last admission: 4:15 p.m. - Attention: Due to monument protection reasons, our house is unfortunately not barrier-free. The individual departments are connected to each other over several levels)
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| Wolpertinger - German Hunting and Fishing Museum - Munich - Bavaria, Photo: A. Waess |
The Wolpertinger species only exists in Bavaria
The artist Hans Reiser, for example, vividly depicts lifelike replicas.
Somehow the visitor slowly gets the idea:
Should we be led around by the nose here?
The Wolpertinger species only exists in Bavaria
No, according to the relevant specialist literature:
The Wolpertinger species only exists in Bavaria. There are unique fishing methods and specific bipedal, quadrupedal and fish-like creatures. With and without fur, injured, walking with a stick, smoking a pipe and the resemblance to some well-known animal species is intentional.
Wolpertinger:
Fantasy and reality merge in these Alpine creatures.
Does Wolpertinger really exist?
Well, this can be philosophized and argued about.
Strange fishing methods are reported. In addition to Wopertinger traps, a Bavarian method of catching is rarely used - although it is praised as promising:
Take a beer mug filled to the brim, a white sausage and a giant pretzel. Equipped in this way, you go into the Bavarian Forest. When you reach your destination, you sit down under an old tree and drink the beer, bite off a piece of the pretzel and eat all of the white sausage down to the skin. Place the remaining pretzels and sausage casings on a mossy spot on the tree; then you hide behind it.
When the moon is at its highest, you have to be careful. With the empty beer mug in your hand you watch the bait. They creep up secretly, quietly and quietly. Infatuated by the smell of white sausage and pretzels, they want to eat. Now you've got to be quick. At the moment when the Wolpertinger wants a meal, you place the jug vertically over the animal from above. The Wolpertinger is happy and slurps the leftovers from the edge of the glass.
A humane catching method that pleases both equally:
- Hunters and Wolpertingers!
And when looking at some of the specimens, museum visitors wonder whether one size was enough to attract such extraordinary specimens to the museum.
The Mountain Pine Wolpertinger deserves special attention
At this point at the latest, the visitor knows about the benefits of this special species, because who knew where the slippers, pardon the "slippers", come from.
Fabel-Haft, wirklich Fabelhaft und auch wenn nicht immer alle Wolpertinger im Museum anwesend sind – ein Besuch lohnt sich immer!
German Hunting and Fishing Museum Munich
- in the Munich pedestrian zone -
Neuhauser Strasse 2
80331 Munich
- Homepage: jagd-fischerei-museum.de
Current special exhibition:
Wild life of Africa - watercolors by Bodo Meier
November 8, 2023 - April 30, 2024
Opening hours:
- Monday to Sunday: from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., last entry 4:15 p.m.
