the collection includes art from the entire härtsfeld region and includes a variety of rural art. religious pictures from the local catholic population include guardian angels, "christ on the mount of olives" and "madonna with roses". from evangelical areas there are pictures of baptism and of marriage. a center piece of this collection is the "haarbilder", a collection scriptural quotes surrounding flowers made from the hair of children who died young. from the era of the kaiser, before world war i, the so-called "reservistenbilder" (or reservist pictures) show the call for order and new soldiers for the impending war.