Wolfegg Farmhouse Museum

**Farmhouse Museum Allgäu-Oberschwaben Wolfegg**
	; Entrance area
Data
place	Wolfegg coordinates: 47 ° 49 ′ 15.4 ″ N , 9 ° 47 ′ 19 ″ E
Art	Open air museum
opening	1978
operator	Ravensburg district
management	Maximilian Eiden
Website	www.bauernhausmuseum-wolfegg.de
ISIL	DE-MUS-214719

Farmhouse Museum Allgäu-Oberschwaben Wolfegg: View of the fisherman's house (right) and the granary (left). The fisherman's house was built in 1788 at its current location, the granary was built around 1760 in the hamlet of Winnenden near Ebersbach-Musbach as an annex to a homestead.

The farmhouse museum Allgäu-Oberschwaben Wolfegg in Wolfegg in the Ravensburg district shows over twenty historical buildings from Upper Swabia and the Allgäu in Württemberg on a 12- hectare site, on which numerous farm animals also live.

The Ravensburg district has been the sponsor of the open-air museum since 2003; it is run as an in-house company together with Achberg Castle .

history

The open-air museum was founded in 1978 after the Association for the Preservation of Rural Cultural Assets had been founded two years earlier . The museum was intended to contribute to the presentation and preservation of the typical regional house landscape.

The opening took place in 1978. At that time the core of the museum was the fisherman's house and the living quarters of the arcades . By the mid-1990s, the museum area was intensively expanded by moving several courtyards to Wolfegg. At the same time, a collection of objects from rural everyday culture was set up.

In 1991 the museum grounds were significantly expanded by including neighboring properties. The larger area now made it possible to embed the historical buildings in an appropriately designed regional cultural landscape. In addition to the everyday culture largely documented in the buildings, traditional agricultural cultivation methods including the associated cultivated plants could now also be documented.

Building overview

The numbers given correspond to the official names in the museum plan.

No.	designation	Construction year	original location	annotation
01	Tithe shy	around 1430	Schlier -Gessenried	The Zehntscheuer is currently (as of 2013) the oldest building in the museum. It was located in the Weißenau monastery grounds until 1895 before it was moved to Gessenried and built up in a shortened form. In 1999 the museum was rebuilt in Wolfegg. The barn originally served as a grain and hay store and as a stable. Today the building houses the entrance building of the museum.
01a	Exhibition pavilion	modern		Modern exhibition pavilion for special exhibitions (the tithe barn in the background)
02	windmill	1907	Kisslegg - Waltershofen	The wind turbine produced in Dresden had been working on a remote farm near Waltershofen since 1907. With it, groundwater was pumped into a high reservoir and from there distributed over the courtyard via a water pipe system. In 2000 it was implemented in Wolfegg.
03	Blaserhof	1712	Forest castle	The house was originally built as a single-storey farmhouse with a partial basement in frame plank construction. In 1844 there was a renovation with an increase in the north side. In 1904 the south side was also increased. The building, which had been vacant for several years, was moved to the entrance area of the Wolfegg Museum in 2009. Among other things, it houses the museum administration.
03a	Apiary	1903	Wangen in the Allgäu -Schwarzenbach	The building with a square floor plan, a typical representative of apiary architecture around 1900, originally offered space for 36 bee colonies .
04th	Brick barn	1831	Gurben near Bad Wurzach	The barn was built as a barn in Gurben and moved to Hauerz in 1903 . After implementation, seaweed was processed in it. Later the house served as a warehouse for a carpentry shop.
05	Andrinet house	1740	Leutkirch im Allgäu - vacation	The house was built as a country weaver's house, but from 1900 onwards it increasingly served as a residential building. It embodies the Allgäu flat-roof house type and originally had a so-called lander roof . The building shows the furnishings of its last resident Pauline Andrinet from the 1970s with an open hearth; she never had a water or electricity connection. The implementation according to Wolfegg took place in 2004/05.
06th	Fruit box	around 1745	Weitprechts near Bad Wurzach	The granary was built in the middle of the 18th century on a farm in Weitprechts. Later, in addition to grain, agricultural implements were also stored there.
07th	House Häusing	1734	Häusing near Amtzell	The house was built as a feudal courtyard for the Weißenau monastery and served as a residential building. The cellar rooms and the attic were used as storage. Use of the building ended in the 1980s. It was later moved to Wolfegg, where the house was reopened in 2004.
08th	Remise	around 1920	Häusing near Amtzell	Next to the main building is a coach house , which was built around 1920 as an auxiliary building of the Häusing farm complex. It was used to store agricultural equipment and vehicles.
15th	chicken coop	1981		The chicken coop was built based on the typical style of similar poultry stands in the Württemberg Allgäu.
16	Residential storage	around 1690	Arbors near Leutkirch	The outbuilding of a farm was used as a residential and storage building. In the course of history, it served the old farmer and the siblings of the farm owner as a residence. Agricultural implements were stored in the remise. further adjoining rooms were used for grain storage. Together with the fisherman's house, the living storage facility was one of the first buildings in Wolfegg to be made accessible in 1978.
17th	Reisch farm	1780	Danketsweiler near Horgenzell	The stately farmhouse was once the main building of the most important estate in Danketsweiler. The large living and stable building was managed until 1979 and moved to Wolfegg from 1989 to 1995.
18th	Trafostation	around 1915	Water	The Oberschwäbische Elektrizitätswerke erected the building in the Wolfegg district of water, thus supplying it with electricity for the first time.
18th	Emergency	around 1925	Baindt	The state of emergency was established by a blacksmith; shoeing and hoof care for oxen and cows were easier to do here.
20th	Bakehouse	around 1730	Bergatreute	The small bakery once stood on the Maierhof Bergatreute and was in operation until 1953. The baking room was on the ground floor and an apartment was set up above it. It was initially used as a home for old farmers, then servants, poor families, prisoners of war and evacuated families. In 1985 the building was moved to Wolfegg. It is set up around 1900, the servant's apartment according to a previous owner.
21st	Residential storage	around 1760	Winnenden near Ebersbach-Musbach	The outbuilding of a farm in the hamlet of Winnenden fulfilled a variety of functions. It was used to store fruit and grain as well as to store agricultural implements. There was also a small apartment on the upper floor. The house has been part of the Wolfegg Museum since 1980.
22nd	Fisherman's house	1788	Wolfegg	The fisherman's house was built in 1788 at its current location as a residential and farm building for the Hoffischer of the Waldburg-Wolfegg estate. The building formed the basis of the museum in 1978.
23	Fish keeping	1902	Wolfegg	The fish holding was at its current location as an outbuilding of the fisherman's house. The fish breeding tanks were housed here. The small pond next to the building was also used to raise fish. Today the house houses the museum shop.
24	Cattle scale	around 1900	Eggmannsried	The landlord of the Eggmannsrieder Gasthaus Lamm was also the cradle master. The main cattle weighing days were Monday for cattle and Saturday for pigs. Before the First World War, the daily quota was around 100 animals, later it was up to 60 animals. Weighing operations were discontinued around 1965.
25th	Syringe house	around 1900	Illerbach
26/27	Angle apiary	around 1920	Reute at Amtzell
28	Barn barn	1724	Richlisreute at Schlier	The barn served as a grain and feed store as well as a cattle shed and coach house for a farm. The implementation according to Wolfegg took place in 1985.
29	House Füssinger	1705	Siebratreute at Waldburg	The house was originally the residential building of a rural courtyard. It also housed a distillery, a cider factory, the pigsty and the old farmer's storage room. The Füssinger house was moved to Wolfegg in 1980.
30th	Forelock	around 1784	Flunau near Neukirch	The storage building served as an annex to a farm and briefly also housed the village cheese dairy. The house has been in Wolfegg since 1984/85.

Animals in the museum

The museum currently (2018) holds geese, ducks, goats and pigs of regional breeds. In addition, some Allgäu cows from a neighboring farmer graze on the museum meadows in summer.

Animals in the farmhouse museum

literature

Funding Association Farmhouse Museum Wolfegg e. V. (Ed.): Wolfegger Blätter - 2015 edition . flyeralarm GmbH, Würzburg 2015 (13th year).

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