Westerwald Landscape Museum

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The thatched entrance building, in August 2009

The Westerwald Landscape Museum is a small open-air museum in Hachenburg in the Westerwald district . The Westerwald Landscape Museum is located on the edge of the castle park near the historic city center and is a geo-information center of the Westerwald-Lahn-Taunus National Geopark .

Museum village

The museum consists of eight buildings that form a museum village of relocated Westerwald houses from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. The museum's buildings and collections are intended to provide information about the history of the Westerwald and its inhabitants. The houses include the school from Obermörsbach from 1809 including a schoolroom completely furnished in the 19th century style, as well as a barn from Sainscheid (around 1680), a mill house (around 1700) and an oil mill (around 1750) from Frickhofen as well a bakery (1850) and a Westerwald "small house" from Kirburg .

The entrance building, the "Haus Norken" is a typical Westerwald house with a living area, stable and barn. It was built around 1723 in the village of Norken . It was dismantled in 1984 and rebuilt in the museum from 1987 to 1991. The building is used as an entrance building with a ticket office, a museum shop and for an exhibition.

  • School from Obermörsbach

  • Mill dwelling house

  • barn

Hofgarten House

Hofgarten House

The Hofgarten house from the beginning of the 18th century originally belonged to the Hachenburg Palace and contains, in addition to the administration rooms, a numismatic collection, archaeological finds and exhibition rooms. The adjoining garden presents local ornamental and useful plants as well as a beehive around a fountain.

Stone age grave

Stone box from Oberzeuzheim

The Steinkiste from Oberzeuzheim is in the castle park, outside the museum . It is a reconstruction of a Stone Age grave that was originally built at the end of the Neolithic Age (approx. 2500 to 1800 BC). The grave was discovered in 1985 in Oberzeuzheim. The shape and size of the grave are unknown because the stones were no longer found in their original position. The grave was reconstructed from the original stones by the Westerwald Landscape Museum in the castle garden of Hachenburg next to the Westerwald Landscape Museum.

History and organization

The half-timbered houses were dismantled from their original locations from 1980 and rebuilt and restored in the course of time in the museum grounds. The Freundeskreis Landschaftsmuseum Westerwald eV has existed since 1984 and supports the museum financially and organisationally. The museum has five full-time employees and three part-time employees.

Web links

Commons : Landschaftsmuseum Westerwald  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 39 '45.3 "  N , 7 ° 49' 50.7"  E