AT A GLANCE
Why go?
The Egerland Museum in Marktredwitz, tucked into the Fichtelgebirge hills of northern Bavaria, is dedicated to preserving the culture and memory of the Egerland — the old German-speaking corner of western Bohemia around the spa towns of Karlsbad, Marienbad and Franzensbad. Housed in the Egerland-Kulturhaus since 1973, it serves as both a museum and a meeting place for the families displaced from that region after the Second World War.↗↗
What looks from the street like a modest building opens up into a surprisingly rich world: a permanent journey through the life, crafts and customs of the Egerland, a fine gallery of 20th-century art rooted in the region, and a recreated 1900s spa-town promenade lined with porcelain, glass and mineral-stone souvenirs. Visitors often say that once they step inside, they never want to leave.↗
A home for a vanished homeland
The Egerland is the historic German-speaking region clustered around the town of Eger (Cheb) on what is now the Czech border with Bavaria. After 1945 its German inhabitants were expelled, and many resettled in this part of Franconia. The Egerland-Kulturhaus, established in Marktredwitz in 1973, became the cultural centre of that dispersed community — a place to keep traditions, objects and stories alive. The central Egerland Museum within it presents notable exhibits and relics that give an intimate glimpse into the culture and heritage of a region that no longer exists as it once was.
