The Coffee Grinder Museum.

The Wiernsheim Municipality acquired the property at Marktplatz 21 in year 2008. The building fell under the Conservation of ancient monuments Act and up to 30 years ago it acted as the Evangelical Rectory headquarters. A dendrochronologic survey has revealed that the year of construction actually dates back as far as 1711. The principal purpose of the acquisition is to provide a venue for preservation and display, to the benefit of the general public, of the coffee grinder collection donated to the Wiernsheim Municipality by honorary citizen Rolf Scheuermann.

The Coffee Grinder Museum’s future home

The conversion of the "Old Rectory" to "Coffee Grinder Museum" provides for professional and thematic cataloguing of the museum items for public viewing.

Mr Scheuermann began his coffee grinder collection approximately 40 years ago, when he discovered his first piece, dated 1930s, in a jumble sale. The oldest grinder in the collection is 300 years old and originates in Northern Germany. It dates back to 1720. Subsequent additions comprise a number of French exhibits. Over the years the collection has grown to comprise approximately 1000 coffee grinders, acquired by Mr. Scheuermann from all over the world. Coffee grinders do to all effects provide an inventive testimony of an important part of the history of mankind. It is therefore with the utmost pleasure that the Wiernsheim Municipality announces the forthcoming opening of its very unique "Coffee Grinder Museum", scheduled for the end of 2010.