Gut Steinhof

Gut Steinhof, agricultural technology museum

Location of Gut Steinhof in Braunschweig

The Good Steinhof is a former farm in the north of the city of Braunschweig , in today's district Lehndorf-Watenbüttel at the bundesstraße 214 .

history

The Steinhof was a Vorwerk (agricultural estate) of the Kreuzkloster in Braunschweig, which was first mentioned in 1326. In the course of the Reformation , the city of Braunschweig received sovereignty over the Steinhof in 1523. Between 1789 and 1883 a mansion, a drive-through barn (1838), a cattle shed (1863) and a warehouse were built. The cattle barn and the warehouse are particularly worth seeing from a structural point of view, as they were designed as a so-called Prussian cap ceiling .

In 1893 the City of Brunswick the goods to there a trickle engine for wastewater treatment set. Just two years later, the Braunschweiger Rieselfelder was put into operation. In 1896 barracks-like apartments were built for the workers and day laborers . Agricultural work was also carried out on the estate until 1970. Today the Steinhof sewage treatment plant is located in the immediate vicinity, where the wastewater from the Braunschweig wastewater association is treated .

Agricultural Engineering Museum Braunschweig

After agriculture stopped, the buildings began to deteriorate. The city of Braunschweig decided to demolish large parts of the facility. Citizens protested against this and collected signatures to preserve the historical ensemble. In 1984 the Gut-Steinhof e. V. , which leased the east-facing buildings of the estate and set up the Braunschweig Agricultural Engineering Museum there. Some shed houses and shelters had already been torn down, but the drive-through barn , the cattle barn and the warehouse were saved from being demolished.

The sponsorship group organizes technical demonstrations and other events at which rural handicrafts and agricultural machinery are demonstrated, such as threshing demonstrations with the steam threshing train , consisting of the Lanz Lokomobile from 1907 and the threshing box from the Fricke company from Lamspringe . An interesting event is the steam engine meeting , where historical steam engines and steam engine models are shown in action.

The museum's collection includes the areas of housekeeping, rural handicrafts such as tillage, sowing, fertilizing and harvesting technology, as well as crop protection and harvest processing. Furthermore, tractors, prime movers and transport machines are exhibited. The aim is to show the development in agricultural history from working with draft animals to large-scale equipment and the use of steam engines to machines with combustion engines and thus the increasing mechanization of work processes at the beginning of the 20th century.

Closer surroundings

In the immediate vicinity are a large tree nursery, the municipal sewage works, the Braunschweiger Rieselfelder, the former Braunschweig waste dump and modern waste disposal facilities. Today, biogas, bark mulch and compost are produced in the waste facility. Right next door, a modern system presses the household waste for transport to an incinerator.

In summer, fruit and vegetables, especially asparagus, strawberries and potatoes from local producers are offered at flying farm stalls near the estate.

Web links

Commons : Gut Steinhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gut Steinhof on the website of the city of Braunschweig at braunschweig.de
• The Landtechnik-Museum Braunschweig on the website of the city of Braunschweig on braunschweig.de
• Website of the Landtechnik-Museum Braunschweig, Gut-Steinhof e. V. on gut-steinhof.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedrich Knoll : Braunschweig and surroundings. Göritz, Braunschweig 1881, p. 207.
2. ↑ History of the Steinhof on gut-steinhof.de, accessed on May 15, 2013.
3. ↑ The Steinhof sewage treatment plant ( Memento of the original dated November 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from abwasserverband-bs.de, accessed on October 16, 2012. 
4. ↑ The Förderkreis Gut Steinhof eV on gut-steinhof.de, accessed on May 15, 2013.
5. ↑ Landtechnik-Museum Gut Steinhof ( Memento of the original dated May 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on braunschweig.de, accessed on May 15, 2013. 
6. ↑ The concept at gut-steinhof.de, accessed on May 15, 2013.

Coordinates: 52 ° 19 ′ 1 ″  N , 10 ° 26 ′ 44 ″  E