Ammerland farmhouse open-air museum

The Ammerländer Bauernhaus open-air museum is an open-air museum in the Lower Saxony municipality of Bad Zwischenahn in the Ammerland district . It consists of a total of 17 houses and outbuildings, which were put together in the style of an Ammerland farm from around 1700.

location

The museum area is located in Bad Zwischenahn directly on the Zwischenahner Meer , which borders the area to the north. The western limit is the floodplain , the eastern limit is the farm forest belonging to the museum . At no time was there a farm on the site. Most of the museum buildings date from around 1700, but were acquired by the association, demolished at their original location and rebuilt in Bad Zwischenahn.

history

At the beginning of the 20th century, members of the then "Beautification Association in and near Zwischenahn" and today's "Association for Home Care Bad Zwischenahn" decided to build an open-air museum in Bad Zwischenahn in the form of a farm from the beginning of the 18th century to help people bring the rural way of life closer to that time. Work on the open-air museum began in 1909 with the construction of the Ammerland farmhouse , which was completed in 1910. Since then, the museum has been continuously expanded, including the windmill in 1960. The last of the current 17 buildings was erected on the museum grounds in 2013.

The buildings

Ammerland farmhouse

The central building of the museum is the Ammerland farmhouse . It was the first building that the sponsoring association had erected on the site and consists of parts of two purchased farmhouses from around 1700.

Windmill

The windmill in the style of a gallery Dutchman was originally built in Westerstede in 1811 and shut down in 1958 after several changes of ownership. In order to save it from decay, it was acquired by the Bad Zwischenahn local history association and rebuilt in the open-air museum on the museum grounds in 1960.

More buildings

There are also these buildings on the site:

The Spieker ( Low German memory ) is located right next to the central building and now houses a restaurant with a garden terrace.
A bargfred (in Low German bergfried ) used to serve as a protective building for the emergency reserve. To protect against water, buildings of this type were usually erected on an elevated area. To protect the reserve against animals, the keep was surrounded by a moat, just like in the museum.
The wage house served as accommodation for employed wage earners .
The dweersack is basically two hay houses built back to back.
The one-room house previously served as a shepherd's dwelling.
The forge is set up in the style of old village blacksmiths of that time and was therefore not actually part of a single courtyard, but was integrated into the museum for reasons of clarity.
There are also several outbuildings that belonged to a farm, such as a Schafkoven (sheepfold), the Timmerkamer ( Low German Chamber of Carpenters ), a boat shelf and two barns.