Vreden Farmhouse Museum

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Hof Früchting, part of the Westphalian courtyard complex of the Farmhouse Museum in Vreden

The Farmhouse Museum is a collection of eleven buildings in the city park of Vreden . The buildings of the open-air museum are also officially referred to as the “historical courtyard complex in West Munsterland”. The original location of the building was in the immediate vicinity. The main buildings of the historic West Munsterland courtyard are the historic Früchting courtyard, a Kötterhaus and a functioning water mill that is fed from the nearby city ​​moat .

history

Coordinates: 52 ° 2 ′ 6 ″  N , 6 ° 49 ′ 11 ″  E

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The farmhouse museum was established jointly by the city of Vreden and the Vredener Lande Heritage and Antiquity Association, founded in 1926, as a supplement to the Hamaland Museum . The first building, the main building and residential house from the courtyard Früchting from Vreden-Ellewick was in the city park from 1967 translocated . In 1969 the house was opened. Various outbuildings have been added over the years. With the reconstruction of the Huning water mill, the expansion of the courtyard was initially completed at the end of the 1990s.

In 1975 the Borken district took over the Hamaland Museum and with it the historic courtyard. The farmhouse museum was run as part of the museum until the beginning of 2019. During the renovation of the Hamaland Museum to the cult Westmünsterland (from 2015), the courtyard was temporarily the only part of the museum that was accessible to visitors. With the reopening of the kult, however, the framework conditions changed. The farmhouse museum was only opened by appointment.

In April 2019, the rights of use to the courtyard were transferred to the Vreden Community Foundation, which has since opened the museum on weekends (Friday afternoons, Saturday and Sunday). At the same time, the forge was opened, which was set up by the Vreden local history association in a former sheepfold. This added another building to the facility. The outdoor facilities were also extensively redesigned in this context.

Courtyard building

Heuerlingshaus from Südlohn in the Farmhouse Museum, Vredener monument 29-2
Half-timbered store

Since the forge opened in April 2019, the Farmhouse Museum has comprised the following twelve buildings:

  • Main house
  • Kötterhaus (Heuerlingshaus)
  • Watermill
  • Smithy (former sheepfold)
  • Storage
  • Grain barn
  • Pillar barn
  • Flax oven
  • Baking storage
  • Sheepfold
  • Umbrella Schoppe (Remise)
  • Apiary

The building ensemble is freely accessible from the outside.

The interiors of the two residential buildings (main and Kötterhaus) are contemporary in design. The comparison of the two buildings shows the differences between the comparatively wealthy Früchting farm and a day laborer. The other outbuildings also house typical utensils from rural life in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The forge and the watermill are in working order and are used regularly by members of the Vreden Heimatverein. Currently (as of May 2019) the water mill is temporarily out of order due to a defect in the water wheel.

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