Der Salmen

The Salmen is a contemporary witness and a cultural monument of national importance. It has an eventful history: built as an inn with a banqueting hall above the stable building, it became famous ...

Today, around one million Black people live in Germany. Many of them are regularly asked about their "real" origins, yet our country has a centuries-long Black history and many Black families have ...

For the third time, the City of Offenburg's Department of Culture invites you to the "Long Night of Culture". All of the city's cultural institutions are open until midnight on this day and offer a ...

Where would society be without Mahatma Gandhi and his philosophy of peaceful protest? Where would the world be today without Martin Luther King and his fight against racial discrimination? It would ...

After almost six years of war and more than 60 million victims, negotiations in May 1945 finally led to the unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht and the complete collapse of the Nazi state ...

In his new novel "Die Lebensentscheidung", Austrian author Robert Menasse focuses on the trials and tribulations of Europe. Frustrated by the mills of bureaucracy, Franz Fiala makes a "life decision" ...

Every year in May, museums around the world open their doors on "International Museum Day" with a special program. The Salmen is also taking part again! Under the motto "Baden-Württemberg tells ...

A workshop to think, talk and help shape the future In 1847, the "Decisive Friends of the Constitution" proclaim the "13 Demands of the People" in the Offenburg Salmen - and thus the first catalog of ...

The gathering of 900 people on September 12, 1847 and their demands for more freedom and equality were a harbinger of what would become reality just a few months later: Revolution. But not only ...

In Bauerngasse am Salmen, 12 graffiti with comic elements and art-historical quotations tell of various stages in the history of German democracy. During this guided tour, we will take a look at the ...

"Politics is far too serious a matter to be left to men alone." (Käte Strobel, Federal Minister 1966 - 1972) The film "Die Unbeugamen" tells the story of women in the Bonn Republic who literally had ...

Without the people who have stood and continue to stand up for peace and freedom for all of us, our world would certainly be a different place today. The painting "33 Democrats" by contemporary artist ...

"Heil Hitler" ends the telegram that dashes the hopes of Jewish artist Lola Blau's first major engagement at the Landestheater Linz. Within a very short space of time, Lola not only loses contact with ...

Hannah Arendt, Thomas Mann, Albert Einstein - the photographs of the Jewish photographer Fred Stein are world-famous, but he himself is largely unknown. In the first biography of Stein, historian ...

Final performance of the participatory project of the same name Since February, the motto has been "Join in, help shape, help decide - at the Salmen, Offenburg's House of Democracy". Young people aged ...

From 1862, there was a rapidly growing Jewish community in Offenburg, which was naturally integrated into the town. From 1875, it had its synagogue in the former "Zum Salmen" inn and met for services ...

The advertising pillar in front of the Salmen can be seen from afar. However, the pillar is not a classic advertising space, but a work of art by the artist Moritz Götze from Halle an der Saale. The ...

The Salmen is a contemporary witness and a cultural monument of national importance. It has an eventful history: built as an inn with a banqueting hall above the stable building, it became famous for ...

On September 12, 1847, the lawyer and publicist Gustav Struve, as one of the "Decisive Friends of the Constitution", campaigned here in the Salmen Hall for "prosperity, education, freedom for all" and ...