Franconian open air museum Fladungen

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Museum village Fränkisches Freilandmuseum Fladungen

The Franconian Open Air Museum Fladungen was built as a museum for rural building culture and for village living and business in Fladungen , Lower Franconia . It preserves old building and living forms and documents the life of the rural population in earlier times with its historical and social backgrounds.

History and description

The Franconian Open Air Museum Fladungen was opened on September 30, 1990. It is supported by a special purpose association founded in 1983, to which the district of Lower Franconia (66%), the district of Rhön-Grabfeld (32%) and the city of Fladungen (2%) belong. The chairmanship of the association changes every two years between the district council president and the district administrator of Rhön-Grabfeld .

The museum is located at the Fladung train station, whose historical building complex is itself part of it. A small exhibition is freely accessible in the station building. So far, over 20 buildings as well as outbuildings and small monuments have been rebuilt on the actual museum site. They come mainly from the Grabfeld, the Haßberge, the Spessart and the Rhön.

The farms transferred to the museum represent - from day laborers to aristocratic landlords - all classes that were once represented in the village. There are also artisanal and commercial properties such as mills or a cooperage and village buildings such as churches, schools, breweries or sheep farms. These buildings were dismantled in other towns of the northern Lower Franconia and adjacent areas of Thuringia and Hesse and after Fladungen translocated .

The farm shop attached to the museum offers visitors fresh food and souvenirs for sale. Guests can fortify themselves in the museum inn "Zum Schwarzen Adler" or at the weekend in the snack bar on the museum premises. The inn is equipped with dining rooms, a dance hall and a beer garden and is operated all year round. Outside the museum season, separate opening times apply. The inn is furnished in the style of the early 20th century, which is particularly noticeable in the Art Nouveau dance hall. It was built in Alsleben in 1606, making it the oldest building in the museum. The youngest building on display is a yellow telephone box (type FeH78) from Oerlenbach (near Bad Kissingen), so that the museum today reflects 350 years of rural building and living in Lower Franconia.

A special feature is the three-sided farm from Leutershausen, which is used as a museum education center. Its barn was converted into a modern seminar and course room. In the “House you can touch”, visitors can go on a journey back in time to around 1900 and try out elements from everyday rural life at that time. Cooking programs and other educational activities take place here on a regular basis.

Since 1996 the museum can be reached with the “ Rhön-Zügle ”. On selected days it is on the museum railway line through the Streutal from Mellrichstadt via Ostheim vor der Rhön to Fladungen. The museum path connects as an extra tour of the trail Hochrhöner the museum with the Black Moor .

An extensive supporting program is offered there during the season. This includes special exhibitions, themed tours, practical seminars and events such as brewing day, German mill day , open-air cinema and museum festival. The bakery from Oberbernhards ( Hilders municipality ) is also in operation at least once a month .

In addition to the buildings and their equipment, the open-air museum is characterized by the keeping of endangered livestock breeds (e.g. yellow cattle , Rhön sheep , Bavarian land goose, etc.), as well as the cultivation of old plant varieties. Up until a few decades ago, animal husbandry, as well as the use of gardens and other areas of the cultural landscape , played a much greater role in rural areas.

Another aspect that is increasingly becoming the focus of the museum is the aspiration to want to be a museum for everyone. With a pilot project in 2017, the Büttnerei from Sulzthal was comprehensively developed in a wide variety of ways and can now not only be accessed with a wheelchair, but can also be explored by the blind and visually impaired, deaf and in easy language via adapted offers. For this purpose, the museum was awarded the “Bavaria barrier-free” logo in March 2019.

  • Farm from Bahra

  • Truchseß house from Oberhohenried; Large cattle and pig sty from Herbstadt

  • Farm from Trappstadt

  • Snack room in the Hofstelle from Oberbernhards

  • Catholic church from Leutershausen

  • Interior view of the Catholic Church from Leutershausen

  • Village school from Krausenbach

  • Wooden shoemaking in the Hofstelle from Waldberg

Special exhibitions (selection)

  • Time of Change - The Rural 1960s and 1970s (September 9, 2011 - October 31, 2012)
  • People - Heimat - Dorf (March 31, 2019 - July 14, 2019)
  • Electricity for the Rhön - overland plant Rhön 1920–2020 (May 11, 2020 - November 8, 2020)

Trivia

The Franconian Open Air Museum Fladungen was used as the location for the fairy tale films Little Red Riding Hood (2012) and Siebenschön (2014).

See also

Publications

  • Albrecht Wald: Short guide / Franconian open air museum Fladungen with the Rhön-Zügle. (= Series of publications by the Franconian Open Air Museum Fladungen. Volume 1). Zweckverband Fränkisches Freilandmuseum Fladungen, Fladungen 2002, DNB 973483431 .
  • Heinrich Hacker: "Blessed Meal ..." - The cooking diary of the Rhön pastor cook Josephine Antonia Hahner. (= Series of publications by the Franconian Open Air Museum Fladungen. Volume 2). Hofaschenbach 2004, DNB 97348344X .
  • Sabine Fechter: Poverty, hunger, bombs and displacement. A tenement house in the country in the post-war years. (= Series of publications by the Franconian Open Air Museum Fladungen. Volume 3). Zweckverband Fränkisches Freilandmuseum Fladungen, Fladungen 2004, ISBN 978-3-00-014697-8 .
  • Armin Röhrer, Thomas Büttner: Historical cultural landscape Rhön. Volume 1: Historical cultural landscape of the Rhön around Fladungen. (= Expert opinion on behalf of the Franconian Open Air Museum Fladungen). Imhof, Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86568-468-4 .
  • Sabine Fechter, Heinrich Hacker: The Truchsesshaus from Oberhohenried - A house of the rural upper class (= publication series of the Franconian Open Air Museum Fladungen. Volume 4). Zweckverband Fränkisches Freilandmuseum Fladungen, Fladungen 2010, DNB 1015329705 .
  • Sabine Fechter, Heinrich Hacker: Times of Change - The 1960s and 1970s in the Country. The last horse - the first Porsche. (= Series of publications by the Franconian Open Air Museum Fladungen. Volume 5). Zweckverband Fränkisches Freilandmuseum Fladungen, Fladungen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89946-166-4 .

literature

  • Rudolf Maria Bergmann: Museum guide Franconia. L & H Verlag, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 978-3-928119-29-0 , pp. 208-210.
  • Sabine Fechter, Konrad Schliephake (Hrsg.): The Franconian Open Air Museum Fladungen - location and spatial interdependence. (= Würzburg Geographical Manuscripts. Issue 68). Geographical Institute of the University of Würzburg, Würzburg 2005, DNB 975689746 .
  • Georg Waldemer: Open-air museums in Bavaria. History - concepts - positions. (= Museum building blocks. Volume 11). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-422-06645-8 , pp. 150–151.
  • State office for non-state museums in Bavaria (ed.): Museums in Bavaria - A guide through the Bavarian museum landscape. 6th, completely revised edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-422-07382-1 , p. 138.
  • Wolf-Dieter Raftopoulo: Rhön and Grabfeld culture guides. A complete documentation of the old cultural landscapes in terms of art and cultural history. RMd Verlag, Gerbrunn 2017, ISBN 978-3-9818603-7-5 , p. 104.

Web links

Commons : Fränkisches Freilandmuseum Fladungen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heidrun Alzheimer: Franconian Open Air Museum Fladungen opened. In: Bavarian sheets for folklore. Year 1990, issue 17. Böhler KG, Würzburg 1990, ISSN  0720-8006 , p. 176 ( PDF ).
  2. ↑ 25 years of living history. In: Bayernkurier.de. October 1, 2015, accessed May 29, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Michael Nöth: Old telephone booth in the open air museum. In: Mainpost.de. September 2, 2019, accessed May 12, 2020 .
  4. ↑ A cooperage you can touch. In: Barrierefrei.Bayern.de. Retrieved May 12, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Special tour of the locations of HR fairy tale film Siebenschön. In: Osthessen-News.de. July 27, 2015, accessed May 29, 2020 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 31 '11.1 "  N , 10 ° 8' 57.6"  E