Beecker Flax Museum

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Wegberg-Beeck Flax Museum
Data
place Beeck (Wegberg) , Germany
Art
Flax Processing Museum
opening 1982
operator
Heimatverein Wegberg-Beeck eV
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-459110

The Beecker Flax Museum , located at Holtumer Straße 19a in Beeck near Wegberg ( Heinsberg district ), is dedicated to the cultivated flax plant .

It shows the linseed , the sowing, the tugging of the flat stalks, the roasting of the flax , the work with the corrugated board and the breaker , the swinging of the flax and combing with the hackle and the flax fiber obtained , the work steps on the spinning wheel and loom to the finished textile fabric in the linen industry and finally the products linen and linseed oil .

A room and a kitchen in the flax museum and the museum garden can be used for events and conferences.

history

In the past, flax was of great importance for agriculture and the textile industry in the region. The village of Beeck was a center of flax cultivation and was therefore called Flaasbeek in the Platt , the local dialect .

The museum was founded in 1982 by the Wegberg-Beeck Heimatverein. Initially it was housed in the former Mühlenbroich forge on Holtumer Straße. In 1987, the association acquired a large piece of land on the opposite side with a former tithe barn , which it restored on its own from 1988 to 1990 and set up as a museum.

Up until 2013, the flax market was held on a weekend in autumn to finance this, and over a hundred old and new craft trades were able to present themselves on the Beeck market square at the St. Vincentius Church.

Flax and linseed from Beeck

The sowing

Together with the local primary school Am Beeckbach , the flax is sown every year. According to an old custom, this should take place on the 100th day of the year - in silence, so the farmers put a stick in their mouths. In addition, a knee-high stick must be stuck into the field so that the flax knows how high it has to grow. The dialect song by Georg Wimmers, which the children sang when sowing flax on September 9, 2014 (the 99th day of the year), refers to this custom. (Melody: little little boy ).

And it’s like that, we’re always ready,

noh honget then flax sowing.

Bruet möt bacon, em Monk ne Teck, otherwise it would have no purpose.

De Bäurin sprönk from dr Döösch, ne Steäk noch en et Feld renköösch.

Klompe aan, now let's go,

domöt et waaße can!

The time has come, we are ready

after a hundred days flax is sown .

Bread with bacon, a stick in your mouth, otherwise it's no use.

The farmer's wife jumps off the table, one stick can still go into the field.

Wooden shoes on, now it's time.

so it can grow!

The linseed oil

A cooperation was decided in 2014 with the Schrofmühle support and museum association near Rickelrath , also located in the city of Wegberg. The linseed obtained in Beeck is brought to the oil mill, where linseed oil is pressed from it.

Museum shop

In line shops , various linen products offered; semi-linen and pure linen tea towels, pure linen napkins and linen. Literature is available.

Museum education

  • All senses are perceived: look, listen, smell, taste, touch and act independently
  • Guided tours for adults, schoolchildren and kindergarten children are offered.
  • The participants in the groups can “work out” a flax diploma .
  • Flax demonstrations can also be offered outside the museum in local schools and kindergartens.

Special exhibitions

  • From August 17, 2014 to June 22, 2015, the exhibition “The First Celebration in Life - Baptism at its Best ” was presented. Historical baptismal clothing and equipment such as dresses, bonnets, shirts, small pillows and blankets were shown. Numerous exhibits, decorated with embroidery and lace of all kinds, illustrated customs and traditions related to baptism.

Beecker costume museum

The Heimatverein Wegberg-Beeck also runs the Museum for European Folk Costumes a few steps from the Flax Museum .

literature

  • Rita Mielk: Flax - The “Blue Wonder” of the Heinsberg region . Heimatverein Beeck eV, 1994, 28 pp.
  • Heinz Gerichhausen: The blue wonder of the Heinsberg region . Heimatverein Beeck eV, 2011, 99 pp.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.ggs-am-beeckbach.de/flachsaussaat-am-9-4-2014/

Web links

Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 54.5 ″  N , 6 ° 18 ′ 26.2 ″  E