The Gottlieb Daimler Birth House on Höllgasse in the old town centre is a small but well-presented museum devoted to the life and work of the man who, with Wilhelm Maybach, developed the high-speed internal combustion engine that made the modern automobile possible. Daimler was born in this house in 1834, and the building has been a museum since 1952.
The exhibition covers Daimler's technical development, his collaboration with Maybach, and the founding of the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft in 1890. There are original technical drawings, models, and documents, plus a replica of the 1885 Reitwagen — the world's first motorcycle — which Daimler and Maybach built to test their engine. The museum is modest in scale and the staff are knowledgeable. The house itself is a good example of Swabian vernacular architecture of the early nineteenth century.