Syke District Museum

Farmhouse built in 1747

Granary at the entrance to the Syke District Museum

1701 built carriage house

Sawmill

Apiary

The Syke District Museum is a regional and open-air museum in Syke sponsored by the Diepholz district .

description

It was founded in 1937 by what was then County Hoya . Since 1977 it has been the district museum for the entire new district of Diepholz. It is located at the northern exit of Syke directly on the B 6 towards Barrien / Bremen.

On an area of 1.3 hectares, surrounded by forest, there are numerous larger and smaller historical buildings: farmhouse (1747; Low German hall house), two storage buildings (approx. 1612/1723), carriage remise , arable citizen house (1808), exhibition building ( New building), drive-through barn, Göpelhaus, Backhaus (1606) and others.

The focus of the exhibition is on old handicrafts, old rural production methods, housekeeping, children's life, school history, prehistory and early history and natural history. In addition, the district museum offers special activities throughout the year: baking and action days, special exhibitions and demonstrations of old craft techniques. From May to September there is a summer garden with a wooden bowling alley and catering on Sundays.

The museum works closely with the museum in the Zeughaus Vechta within the framework of “comparative regional research” .

Bernhard Dierking and Ferdinand Salfer (1964–1989) were honorary museum directors. Ralf Vogeding has been the full-time director since 1989 . In addition, volunteer helpers have been involved in the pedagogical area, in the care of the exhibits and in the preparation of information sheets for years.

literature

Ralf Vogeding: District Museum Syke. The museum of the district of Diepholz. (Series: “Museums in the Northwest”), Oldenburg 1999, 80 p. M. 99 fig.
Ralf Vogeding: 75 years of the Syke District Museum. 1938 - 2013. Ed .: Kreismuseum Syke, Syke 2013, ISBN 978-3-9808212-2-3

Exhibition catalogs and brochures accompanying exhibitions in the Syke District Museum; The publisher is the Syke District Museum:

Hermann Greve , Gabriele Ullrich , Ralf Vogeding: fibula, satchel, lunch. Reading and picture book on school history in the Diepholz district. Syke 1991, 102 pp. 70 fig.

Andreas Fahl, Kerstin von Freytag Löringhoff, Ralf Vogeding: When Aunt Emma was still serving ... On the history of general stores in Northern Germany. Booklet accompanying the exhibition. Syke 1996, 48 pp. numerous Fig.

Waltraud Krieghoff, Ralf Vogeding, Detlef Voges: Werner Kühl. A Syker painter 1906–1944. Catalog for the exhibition in the Ackerbürgerhaus of the District Museum Syke. Syke 1998, 63 p. M. 59 Fig.

About tobacco plants and drunkards. On the history of beer, brandy and tobacco in Northern Germany. Syke 2000, 96 pp. numerous Fig.

Ralf Vogeding: From war to war. Childhood from 1914 to 1944 between Weser and Hunte. A reading and source book. Booklet accompanying the exhibition. Syke 2000, 55 pp. numerous Fig.

Brigitte Nicolay, Ralf Vogeding: There are many heads and many a hat. A workshop exhibition for children and adults on the subject of hoods, caps, caps and hats. The documentation. Syke 2002, 80 p. M. numerous Fig.

Hermann Greve, Friedrich Kratzsch , Friedrich Menke, Karl Sandvoss, Harald Storz, Ralf Vogeding: exposed to arbitrariness. Forced laborers and prisoners of war in the old districts of Grafschaft Hoya and Grafschaft Diepholz 1940–45. Book accompanying the exhibition. Syke 2003, 96 p. M. numerous Fig.

Christoph Wagener, with contributions by Andreas Fahl, Nils Kagel, Ralf Vogeding: Landlicht - Stadtlicht. Of light shortages and light pollution. Lighting stations in Northern Germany. Booklet accompanying the exhibition. Syke 2003, 56 p. M. numerous Fig.

In addition, there are numerous smaller publications about individual departments of the district museum and numerous museum-educational sheets and booklets.