Öland Museum Himmelsberga for art and cultural history
The Öland Museum Himmelsberga for Art and Cultural History is a museum in the town of Himmelsberga on the Swedish Baltic Sea island of Öland .
In the open- air museum , which is open from mid-May to the end of August, Öland's best-preserved two-line street village is made accessible to visitors. The museum includes several four-sided courtyards at their original location , which were built in the 18th or 19th century. In the buildings, the typical furnishings of the houses from this time are shown. There are furnished houses, a windmill as well as agricultural buildings and equipment. Some animals are kept.
Current works by Öland artists are exhibited in an art hall belonging to the museum. The museum also has a restaurant and a museum shop.
Special structures
The following buildings should be emphasized:
Norrgården's northern stables
On the north side of the museum, near the entrance, there are stables that were used as stables for oxen until the 1950s . Oxen were used as draft animals. The individual boxes of the animals are separated from each other by slabs of limestone . The building itself is made of limestone and wood. Both building materials were available in the vicinity of Himmelsberga. Further south of Öland, farm buildings are made of stone because of the wood shortage there. Öland houses were built mainly from wood.
Norrgården's southern stables
Norrgården's southern stables run along the south side of the northernmost yard. It is believed that it was built in the 18th century. The wagon shed, barn , stable , mangle room, pigsty and toilet are housed in the buildings.
The four very small crates on the horse stable are remarkable. They are adapted in size to the unusually small, now extinct Öland horses .
Norrgården's shed
The shed was built at the end of the 18th century. It has a peat roof from which limestone fragments protrude as droplet fragments . The splinters serve to divert the rainwater so that it does not drip onto the building wall.
In the shed there is a pantry , a milk room , a granary and a carpenter's workshop, the summer kitchen with an open fireplace and an oven in the stone vault. This kitchen was actually only used in summer. The regular move from the summer kitchen to the winter kitchen was still common on Öland until the 1950s.
Norrgården's house
The residential building of the courtyard was built in 1842 on a base as a hall building . The building is twice as long as it is wide. There are six rooms. While the hall and hall are in the middle, the living room and kitchen are on one gable side. In the other side of the gable there are two more chambers. The unheated hall was used for representative purposes and for holding parties. This type of construction was increasingly found in the wealthier farms on Öland in the middle of the 19th century. Between 1830 and 1870 it was mansard roof in use, then you went on Öland the gabled roof over. The building was inhabited until 1950. The farmer slept in the living room, the maid on the kitchen bench. The servant had a non-heatable room in the attic of the house.
Karl Olsgården's main building
The one-and-a-half- story house also dates from the end of the 18th century and is built in the form of a couple house, the most common type of house on Öland until the middle of the 19th century.
After entering the building you are first in the hallway. Opposite is the chamber. On the left side, decorated with murals parlor , to the right of the living room. The living room originally extended across the entire width of the house, just like the parlor today. At the beginning of the 19th century, a kitchen was separated, a renovation that was frequent on Öland at the time.
Noteworthy is the Öland knobbed carpet on the bed .
Karl Olsgården's retirement home
The simple old part consists of a hall, kitchen and chamber. When the children took over the homestead, an old-age contract was usually concluded in which the rights and obligations of the generations were regulated. The parents moved into this little house. The children secured certain amounts of food, wood, stable space for the animals, but also transport services in the event of frailty.
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Coordinates: 56 ° 44 ′ 23.4 " N , 16 ° 42 ′ 40.5" E