The cabin furniture
Bedrooms, a dining room and an insulated smoking lounge.
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It was a pressurised room sealed entirely from the rest of the ship by a double door, kept at slightly higher pressure than outside so no hydrogen could seep in, and nothing could be lit inside except a fixed electric lighter supervised by a steward. The arrangement looks insane today but was commercially necessary: first-class passengers in the 1930s would not have accepted a transatlantic crossing without smoking.
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The Zeppelin Museum at Zeppelinheim, south of Frankfurt airport, sits in a place with meaning: this small town was built in 1937 to house the airship crews working at the adjacent Frankfurt airfield โ a residential village for a profession that then died out. The extinction came quickly: on 6 May 1937 the airship Hindenburg burned while mooring at Lakehurst in America, killing thirty-six people. The disaster was filmed and broadcast live on radio, so public confidence in airships collapsed within months and the era of airship travel ended for good. Zeppelinheim's residents lost their profession at a stroke. The museum displays original pieces from the Hindenburg and the Graf Zeppelin: aluminium framing, cabin furniture, navigation instruments, photographs and documents. The cabins were luxurious by the standards of their day โ bedrooms, a dining room and an insulated smoking lounge. The museum is small and association-run, with very limited hours.
Bedrooms, a dining room and an insulated smoking lounge.
Pieces of the airship's internal structure.
Kapitan-Lehmann-Strasse 2, 63263 Neu-Isenburg