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Video: No tax for a tax: a museum in Germany where a dachshund dog will be met better than its owner
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In the spring of 2018, a museum dedicated entirely to dachshund dogs opened in Passau. If a person has to pay 5 euros for the entrance, then for the tax the entrance is completely free. In addition, right from the doorway, the four-legged pet will be offered a bowl of water. And in restaurants or shopping pavilions of the city, you can order soup, pizza and even chocolates for dachshunds.
Controversial initiative
Interest in this museum arose long before its opening. As soon as the organizers announced preparations for the opening of Germany's first dachshund museum, city catering establishments actively supported the idea. They immediately began to offer food for dogs of this breed in their menu.
Now in the restaurants of Passau you can order a special soup or pizza for a dachshund, and as a dessert for your pet, chocolates are offered. The former General Keeper of Bavarian Monuments Egon Johannes Graipl criticized this undertaking.
In his opinion, in the center of Passau, where there are many historical monuments and sights, a person cannot eat normally. There are simply no good eateries here, but now you can feed a dachshund here, and even a personal museum of the breed is being created.
But the Passau Tourism Office fully supported the initiative to create a tax museum, considering it to be consistent with the general style of the city and its humorous atmosphere.
Historical exposition
Two former florists, Josef Kueblbeck and Oliver Storz, are longtime fans of dachshunds. In addition to the fact that they have two favorite dogs of this breed, they collect everything that is associated with them.
They have been collecting their collection for two decades. It contains about 5,000 exhibits and today almost all have been moved to the museum. There are, in fact, two thematic expositions.
One tells about the history of the breed, about the extermination of dachshunds, which was observed after the end of the First World War, and about the revival of the breed in the future. Here you can also see photos of famous personalities with their favorite dachshunds. It should be noted that in the past, in all the noble houses of Germany, these dogs, similar to a sausage, were necessarily kept.
There is a known case when two dachshunds of Kaiser Wilhelm II, during his visit to the residence of Archduke Ferdinand, caught an expensive golden pheasant and thereby caused a major international scandal.
In the paintings depicting the young Napoleon, one could see his dachshund, Grenville. The emperor kept dachshunds all his life, bequeathed to take care of them after his death, and then, when the dogs lived out their days, ordered to bury them in his own grave.
The dachshunds were owned by Anton Chekhov, who named his pets by the names of medications. He had Brom Isaevich and Hina Markovna, and his brother had a dachshund named Yod.
The inspiration for the famous Pablo Picasso was his dachshund named Lump. In fact, many celebrities owned dachshunds. Albert Einstein, Vladimir Nabokov, Marlon Brando, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Queen Victoria - these are just a few of the celebrities who had a soft spot for these amazing dogs.
The mascot of the Munich Summer Olympics was the Valdi dachshund. It was with this mascot that the tradition of mascot toys for the subsequent Olympic Games began.
Dachshunds in everything
In the second part of the exhibition, you can see a variety of dachshund figurines made of porcelain, stele, plastic, metal and other materials, as well as numerous interior items depicting dachshunds, as well as paintings, bottle openers, photographs and drawings. Over time, the founders of the museum plan to expand it, because their collection is constantly replenished with more and more new exhibits.
The museum has been popular with tourists since its opening, some of them do come with their own taxes. Curious dogs study the exhibits with no less interest than their owners.
And today, dachshunds continue to inspire their owners. Photographer Belinda Saul Arranged the Whole Amazingly cute photos literally blew up the internet.
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