Museums in Germany

The fire brigade museum in southern Vogelsberg was opened in 2004. It is housed in an agricultural property and shows equipment, uniforms, models and vehicles from German fire departments.

Visitors can expect a wide range around the story of the fire extinguishing system. Several large exhibits, such as old hand pressure sprayer, wooden ladders, vehicles and more than 150 helmets and caps from all over the world are presented. Numerous medals and decorations, nozzles, pumps, portable fire extinguishers, image documents, and more are also part of the exhibition.

This local fire museum provides interesting information about the history of fire fighting and especially about the technical development of fire extinguishing equipment since the middle of the 18th century. From this time, more precisely from the years around 1740, the oldest exhibit comes from: a butten or box syringe, which was stationed in the "New Residence". This had to be filled with water in buckets, and it took the muscular strength of at least four men to spit the water out into the flames.

Local fire museum

Since its opening in 1983, the Berlin Fire Brigade Museum has documented the development of the local fire brigade over the past 170 years. The museum's holdings include a library with historical specialist books and magazines, an archive with historical images and documents, a model and equipment collection as well as numerous historical fire engines.

The Dietzenbach Fire Brigade Museum has had an extensive collection of historical fire fighting equipment since the 1970s. Uniforms, leather helmets and smaller pieces of equipment from the early days of the voluntary fire brigade formed the basis. Today they form the basis of the exhibition, along with a firefighter's private vehicle collection

One of the two fire museums in Frankfurt, featuring the history of firefighting.

Local collection with a few fire engines.

This is the only museum of its type in the Ruhr region and is among the largest fire brigade museums in Germany. Especially impressive is the collection of turntable ladder vehicles, fire trucks and ambulances from bygone days. The oldest vehicle, a heavy brigade truck of the model Klöckner-Humbold-Deutz, was manufactured in 1942, and the newest "treasure," a turntable ladder IFA DL 30 from the GDR's inventory, in 1986.

On a 1.200 square meter space you will find many interesting exhibits from fire fighting vehicles to fire brigade equipment.