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Automobile Welt Eisenach

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Stiftung Automobile Welt Eisenach (awe)
Automobile Welt Eisenach is located in Thuringia
Automobile Welt Eisenach
Location within Thuringia
Automobile Welt Eisenach is located in Germany
Automobile Welt Eisenach
Automobile Welt Eisenach (Germany)
Established4 June 2005 (2005-06-04)
LocationFriedrich-Naumann-Straße 10, 99817 Eisenach
Coordinates50°58′52″N 10°19′30″E / 50.98111°N 10.32500°E / 50.98111; 10.32500
TypeCar museum
Websitewww.awe-stiftung.de

Automobile Welt Eisenach is a car museum located in the old East German town of Eisenach adjacent to the banks of the Hörsel river. It is situated on the old Automobilwerk Eisenach factory site, one of the world's oldest,[1] and opened as a museum in 2005 utilising building O2 from 1936.

Exhibits

The museum chronicles the history of car manufacturing in Eisenach from 1899, through the Dixi and BMW pre-war years, and the development of the GDR car industry with EMW, IFA and Wartburg, and the post-unification Opel models.

References

  1. ^ "Germany: a bike ride along the Cold War borderlands". Daily Telegraph. 11 October 2014. Retrieved 22 September 2019.

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