Home | Search | Prices | Inquiry/Order | Payment | Policy 
MZ | JAWA | Other | Sidecar | Dynamo | News| Contact | Deutsch

translated partial copy of a page from http://www.augustusburg-schloss.de/

Motorcycle museum
The motorcycle collection  at Augustusburg castle is one of the most important and most comprehensive collection sof 2 stroke bikes in Europe

main points of the exbibition

Motorcycle history
Motorsports, Twostroke/Zschopau history
(DKW, MZ)

The permanent exhibition offers with its 170 main exhibits on a surface of 800 square meters a comprehensive view at 100 years of motorcycle history. There are 300 bikes ion the possession of the museum.

Most of the important and technically interesting exhibits are there in original. Amongst them unique pieces

e.g.

-a Hildebrand & Wolfmüller
(first series bike 1894)
-two Megola

(with 5 cylinder star engine 1922)

-two Boehmerland
(longest ever build series motorcycle 1928)

-racing bikes
(DKW UL 500, DKW ULD 500,
12 MZ-factory racing bikes)

The department two-strokes/bikes from Zschopau (DKW, AUTO UNION, MZ) is unique in the world. There are alternating special exhibitions in the entrance floors.

Motorradmuseum
Motorcycle museum


Motorradmuseum
Motorcycle museum


Motorradmuseum
Motorcycle museum


Events typical for the Museum:

You may order the full programm by post or E-Mail.



back

Winter Rally
in January
Castle Rally for Oldtimer before 1960

in June
0ldtimer-Autum Rally

0ktober 3rd