Steam and tractor meeting in the open-air museum on Kiekeberg

Coordinates: 53 ° 26 '23.3 "  N , 9 ° 54' 13.7"  E

Steam and tractor meeting in the open-air museum on Kiekeberg​

Hamburg

The steam and tractor meeting in the open-air museum at Kiekeberg is an annual festival at which steam engines and tractors are shown and demonstrated to those interested. The festival has been held every September since 1989 in the Rosengarten community in the Harburg district. This makes this festival one of the oldest steam festivals of its kind in Germany. The festival is organized by folklorist Alexander Eggert from the open-air museum on the Kiekeberg . The idea of ​​showing parts of the museum's agricultural engineering collection in action resulted in the meeting with tractor and vintage car enthusiasts, at which the annual focus is on tractors and every two years steam engines.

Selected pieces from the open-air museum's collection will also be put into operation for the event. A spare parts market is also part of the program. The meeting is the most traditional event on the Kiekeberg .

history

The Elephant Sentinel Super Tractor, built in 1924, at the 24th steam and tractor meeting in the open-air museum at Kiekeberg

In 2004, for the 16th meeting, watercolors by the painter Michael Wolff were shown until the end of October under the title “Schindmarus”.

At the 18th meeting in 2006, around 150 tractors and selected items from the open-air museum's collection were presented. There were also steam tractors , locomotives , stationary engines and steam engine models from Germany, Holland and England. Special features included a Showmans steam engine and, for the first time, a steam bike by the Englishman Geoff Hudspith.

On the 20th anniversary of the steam and tractor meeting, the open-air museum published a book in its series in 2008 with the title Richard Toepffer . A steam plow entrepreneur as a designer in the Lüneburg Heath , ISBN 978-3935096287 . The German industrialist was instrumental in the introduction of the steam plow and steam threshing in Germany. Hudspith's self-made steam bike was shown again. The steam bike works with 5.5 bar pressure and drives 40 km / h. In addition to around 200 tractors, old fire engines, motorcycles and restored historic steam engines were on display. According to the museum, over 10,000 visitors came to the event in 2008.

In 2009, almost 500 classic cars were shown at the 21st meeting. The meeting in 2009 was dominated by tractors from Ritscher and the Unimog . Steam engines were not shown regularly. Over 7,000 visitors came.

At the 22nd meeting in 2010, around 400 tractors and steam engines from several countries as well as a steam car were shown at the two-day event . The minimum age for participating tractors was 30 years. On both days there were tractor parades on the circular path of the extension site.

In 2012 the annual tractor meeting took place for the 24th time. In addition to the event, milestones in tractor history were presented in the Agrarium .

photos

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  10 ton steam roller with 28 HP from 1942

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  Machine for the production of wooden shoes

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  External processing of the wooden shoes

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  Milling out the wooden shoes

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nordheide-Portal - new head of the Folklore Department in the open-air museum on the Kiekeberg ( Memento from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved October 20, 2012
2. ↑ ^{a b} Kiekeberg: 7000 visitors came to the traditional tractor meeting harburg-aktuel.de, September 14, 2009
3. ↑ Nordheide-Portal - 16th steam and tractor meeting in the open-air museum on Kiekeberg ( Memento from December 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved on October 20, 2012
4. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt - July 4, 2012  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Retrieved on October 20, 2012
5. ↑ ^{a b} When the floor vibrates ... - ... there is again a steam and tractor meeting at Kiekeberg - Rotenburger Rundschau. Accessed on October 27, 2012
6. ↑ Freilichtmuseum am Kiekeberg - Annual Report 2004 (PDF; 1.8 MB)
7. ^ Kiekeberg under steam - Steam and tractor meeting in the open-air museum - Rotenburger Rundschau Accessed on October 20, 2012
8. ↑ "That is living agriculture" - HAN Online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) August 1st, 2010
9. ↑ Freilichtmuseum am Kiekeberg - Annual Report 2008 (PDF; 1.1 MB)
10. ↑ TRITTAUER MARKET WEEKEND NO.38, page 5 - September 19, 2009  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (PDF; 389 kB) Retrieved on October 20, 2012
11. ↑ 22nd Steam and Tractor Meeting 2010 - Magazine for Agricultural Engineering Accessed on October 20, 2012
12. ↑ Registration for the steam and tractor meeting 2010 (PDF; 159 kB) Retrieved on October 20, 2012
13. ↑ Steam and tractor meeting in the open-air museum at Kiekeberg - home and history  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ). Accessed on October 20, 2012

Web links

Commons : Freilichtmuseum am Kiekeberg  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official homepage of the open-air museum at the Kiekeberg
• Open-air museum on the Kiekeberg - the Kiekeberg museum with mill museum and fire brigade museum. With photos from the steam and tractor meeting