Gahlenz Village Museum
The Gahlenz Village Museum is a listed three-sided courtyard in the Gahlenz district of the small Saxon town of Oederan. The museum is an agricultural museum recognized by the Erzgebirge / Central Saxony cultural area.
history
For the 800th anniversary of the community of Gahlenz in 1982, a local history working group presented traditional farm equipment and tools. As a result, the idea arose of transferring the witnesses to a permanent facility. In 1985, an interest group of agricultural businesses and institutions in the Flöha district financed the purchase of a farm and the start of the renovation of the associated stable house. With the political change in 1989/90, the interest group dissolved. She donated the farm to the community of Gahlenz. The community of Gahlenz maintained the exhibition. The Gahlenz Village Museum was inaugurated on July 2, 1992. In 1994 it was officially recognized as a village museum.
Permanent exhibition
There is evidence that the Dreiseitenhof has been cultivated since 1653. The construction of the building is typical for villages in the western Erzgebirge foothills. The homestead is now a listed building. The courtyard includes a stable house, a barn and a side building, an intact original horse goblet, a front garden at the house (mainly used as a herb garden), an apiary and a replica bakery with a clay oven.
The exhibited objects present the way of life and work in the villages of the region from the middle of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century.
In the residential stable house, the former cowshed on the ground floor has been rededicated as a club and lecture room. There is also a farmer's kitchen and the “good room” on the ground floor. The farmer's kitchen from 1900 shows which purposes a kitchen at that time had to support. The “Gute Stube” was the traditional space for celebrations.
On the upper floor of the stable house, above the kitchen and “parlor”, there used to be an apartment for grandparents or close relatives. Today there is a carving room and a lace room. The carving room shows tools used by carpenters, wheelwright and joiners. In the bobbin lace room there are bobbin lace utensils, hand tools and other handicrafts. The long floor corridor is located above the stable with sleeping, storage and storage rooms on both sides.
The grain and loft floors of the house were used to store winter supplies of grain, hay and seeds. Today they are used as exhibition space for various tools. These are arranged according to the topics of grain harvest, flax processing, feed cultivation, dairy farming, potato cultivation and water management.
The barn used to be a recovery and threshing room. Today you can see a pin threshing machine that is powered by a horse peg, a transportable threshing machine, straw presses, various cleaning machines, the pipe drill and a ram (water pump). On the second floor of the barn, accessible through a high driveway, there are devices for tillage, sowing and mowing.
In the side building there is a farm wagon and a tableware exhibition. The superstructures of a versatile farm wagon and the harnessing for single and two-in-hand cars are explained on text boards.
Special exhibitions
The village museum organizes special exhibitions on agricultural and village topics every year.
Events
In the village museum, the “winter work on the farm” takes place in spring and the harvest festival in late summer. The focus is on the demonstration of old work techniques that were important in the region and on the farm.
The museum educational offers are based on the Saxon curriculum. This includes:
- "Paul needs new pants" (manufacture of a pair of pants 1850)
- Grain harvest 100 years ago
- Living 100 years ago
- Out and about in the “Kretzgärtl”
- Washing clothes like in grandma's time
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Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 12.5 ″ N , 13 ° 13 ′ 20.5 ″ E