Tour 3: Discover the red cloth

For more than 400 years, cloth-makers played an important part in Bramsche. The term "Bramscher red" describes a hue that was very popular back then. The award-winning cloth-maker museum offers a glimpse of this attractive part of history.

The destination:
■ Tuchmachermuseum Bramsche The building of the former cloth-maker guild Bramsche, a complex with more than 2,500 m2 embodies the history of crafts and the mill of the region in a fascinating way. The prince-bishop mill was turned into a cooperative cloth mill in the middle of the 19th century – with all operations "from sheep to cloth".
After the demise of most Bramsche textile industry plants in the 1960s and 1970s, the museum kept the memory of this significant branch of industry and the large mill that supplied its energy alive.
The Tuchmachermuseum won the museum price of the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung as one of the most beautiful museums in Germany in 1998. The presentation of wool processing in the early 19th and 20th century on running machines is one of a kind. There are many activities to try out which make them very popular with children. Classical products of the Bramsche cloth industry are manufactured on historical machines and sold in the museum store.

Opening hours:
Tuchmachermuseum Bramsche
Tuesday - Friday, Sunday:
10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Saturday: 14.00 - 18:00:00, Sundays and holidays: 11:00 a.m. public guided tours
More sights in the vicinity:
■ Churchyard with old post office (1650)
■ St. Martin's church (11th century)
■ Guided city tour upon request
■ Relaxed shopping tour
■ Cosy hospitality
■ Malgarten monastery (way back)

Duration: . . . . . . . . . . 5 hours
Distance: . . . . . . . . . . 24 km
Start and finish: . . . Alfsee-Center
Way there: . . . . . . . . Along the Alfsee across Sögeln – Bramsche
Way back: . . . . . . . Epe Malgarten – Rieste – Alfsee Center