Schwenkfelders
Schwenkfelder Library
The Schwenkfelder Library and Museum is located in Pennsburg, PA. The
Schwenkfelder Museum Collection is a record of a people leaving their
homes behind in central Europe and starting their lives anew in Southeastern
Pennsylvania from the 1730's through the early 1900's. The collection
includes a farmer's collection of Indian Artifacts found scattered in
his fields; an 18th century loom that made throw rugs from homegrown flax;
two printing presses that printed the news in German and English to the
19th century farming community; three wooden chests, weather beaten, yet
still amazingly fresh, that accompanied the Schwenkfelders on their sea
voyage to Penn's Woods in 1734; Civil War costumes; embroidery and needlepoint,
the crafts learned by young girls; a child's ice casket, silently reflecting
sorrow and loss; pottery, utensils, school books and clothing; and a stately
pump organ ready to fill a turn of the century Schwenkfelder meetinghouse
with song.. The library is a research haven for early German Reformation
study; a locally extensive resource for genealogical research; a site
for studying Pennsylvania German culture; and a source for discovering
Schwenkfelder roots.
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