Deutsches Klingenmuseum - German Blade Museum

[Ibrahim Ahmad]

My dear friends,

I recently went to Germany on a personal trip but had some time to visit the famous Deutsches Klingenmuseum - German Blade Museum at Solingen. Here are some pictures that I took and would like to share with all of you.

Engraved & marker marked blades

Etched & blued blades

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Imperial blades including Kaiser Wilhelm II Damascus Presentation Swords

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Third Reich blades

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Traditional style Execution Sword, based on a medieval design, yet this example was created by Professor Woenne in the 1930s

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I would like to take this opportunity to say a big thank you to - Michael Everett , Frederick J. Stephens , Tom Johnson and James Brown (Damast) - for all the help and advise given.

Thank you guys ;-)

Cheers,

Ibrahim.

[Mervyn Mitton]

Ibrahim - I must say I greatly enjoyed studying these superb examples. The heavily blued and gilded workmanship on the blades has long been a German speciality. I also liked the daggers and WW2 swords set out so well. You must have had a very pleasant trip. Thankyou for putting these photos on - we don't see nearly enough from different museums. Mervyn

[Ibrahim Ahmad]

My friends,

Here is the website to this museum http://www.klingenmuseum.de

And this is a good video introduction about it

The location , address & opening time

The overall overview of the museum