Short description

car parking spaces

• Comment There is no parking space for disabled people assigned to the museum. In the city area (e.g. Seestraße), however, there are designated disabled parking spaces.

Access and paths Indoor area

• via elevator or other technical device
• Entrance door passage width 90 cm
• passage width of the narrowest of all other doors to be used 90 cm
• Passage width of the narrowest of all other corridors and passages to be used 150 cm
• Comment:
  • Access to the museum is from the inner courtyard of the castle (partly rough cobblestone) through a side entrance.
  • In the middle part of the building there is an elevator (bell call column for guests with restricted mobility available) to the 1st floor of the castle.
    
  • The Kurt Tucholsky Literature Museum is located in a side wing, which can be reached from the elevator through a corridor and then via a stairlift.
  • In the historical building there are numerous door thresholds, some of which are bevelled with wooden wedges and are easily accessible, but some also have a height of 3.5cm. An accompanying person as a pushing aid is an advantage.
    
  • Almost all of the museum's exhibition rooms, apart from the doorsteps, are infinitely variable, the doors are over 90cm wide.
    
  • Exceptions: the small "exhibition room 1" has only a door width of 70cm, the room with TV and sitting corner is accessible through a 87cm wide door and a step of 10cm height.
    
  • Some of the upper areas of the display cases cannot be seen from a seated position.
  
  

Reception

• Comment The checkout area is lowered to a height of 97cm, the checkout staff sits at the eye level of a wheelchair user if required.

Access and paths Outdoor area

• stepless path guidance possible
• Entrance door passage width 151 cm
• Condition of the paths: the paths through the castle park to the inner courtyard/entrance area are partly paved with water-bound ceilings, wooden planks, but also in the inner courtyard with coarse cobblestones.

elevator

• stepless access
• Width of the narrowest of all doors, corridors and passages to be used: 90 cm
• Lift door width 90 cm
• Length of elevator car: 142 cm
• Elevator car width 115 cm
• lowest height of control elements 112 cm
• Top height of controls 129 cm
• Length of the movement area in front of the elevator >150 cm
• Width of the movement area in front of the elevator >150 cm
• Comment The elevator is located in the central part of the castle building and is accessible from the inner courtyard. A bell call post for guests with restricted mobility is available, the elevator is operated by supervisory staff. Larger electric wheelchairs do not fit in the elevator car, please contact us by telephone before visiting.
  More than one guest in a wheelchair cannot be transported at a time - please allow time for groups of wheelchair users to travel to the 1st floor.
  
  

guest toilet

• Width of the narrowest of all doors, corridors and passageways to be used 91 cm
• Door does not open into the sanitary room
• Length of the movement area in front of the washbasin 150 cm
• Depth of the washstand underride (67 cm high) 17 cm
• Upper edge of washbasin (armrest surface) from floor 81 cm
• mirror above the washbasin, visible while sitting or standing
• Length of the movement area in front of the toilet bowl 150 cm
• Width of the movement area in front of the toilet bowl 150 cm
• Length of the movement area to the right of the WC bowl 130 cm
• Width of the movement area to the right of the toilet bowl >150 cm
• Length of the movement area to the left of the WC bowl 95 cm
• Width of the movement area to the left of the toilet bowl >150 cm
• Hand grips next to the WC on the right and left side available
• Height (top edge) of the handles 86 cm
• The handholds protrude over the front edge of the toilet bowl 18 cm
• Distance between handholds 70 cm
• Both handles can be folded up and locked in the folded up position
• Seat height of toilet bowl (upper edge of toilet seat) 48 cm
• Emergency call available
• Comment:
  • The guest toilet is located in the former Marstall, approx. 50 m from the castle and literature museum.
    
  • Access is partly via coarse cobblestones.
    
  • The toilet is equipped with an automatic door.

Professional competence/service

• Information about further barrier-free offers in the region can be made available.
• Information on barrier-free arrival and departure by public transport can be provided.

Collection of data

• Researcher (Institution) Tourism Academy Brandenburg
• Date of data collection 16.08.2018
• The data presented here are verified data