LWL open-air museum Hagen

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Decorated facade of the tobacco factory

The LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen - Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Handwerk und Technik ( WFH ) is an open-air museum in the Hagen district of Selbecke in the Mäckingerbachtal in the southeastern Ruhr area . The regional association of Westphalia-Lippe (LWL) is the sponsor .

In contrast to most European open-air museums, the WFH is not dedicated to depicting everyday rural life, but the history of craft and technology .

history

German forge museum and ironworks
Brewery, distillery, mayor's office and weighbridge

Efforts by a group of engineers and homeland security officers to preserve technical monuments for posterity have been made since the 1920s. In 1929 , the then Mayor of Hagen, Alfred Finke, wrote a letter to Oskar von Miller , the founder of the Deutsches Museum , in which he suggested building an open-air museum of technical cultural monuments in Hagen. The initiator Wilhelm Claas suggested the Mäckingerbachtal as a location for a corresponding museum as early as 1930 . The narrow valley in the foothills of the Sauerland offers the most important natural location factors for trades in the 18th and 19th centuries, wind, water and forest.

The museum was built by Fritz Helmut Sonnenschein , who also ran the museum. Previously, he was the head of the technical department at the Dortmund Building Department. After the war, contrary to other resolutions, he tried to rebuild the Romberg Castle . As a result, he fell out of favor with the Dortmund city administration, but the Hagen city administration now became aware of him, which also contributed to this task. He headed the museum until October 1, 1987. After that, Michael Deuskardt took over this position, whose successor is the current director Uwe Beckmann.

On July 22nd, 1960, the open-air museum was founded as the "Westphalian Open-Air Museum of Technical Cultural Monuments - State Museum for Technology and Craft History - Hagen" together with the LWL Open-Air Museum in Detmold . After the Deutsches Museum in Munich, it was one of the first museums to specialize in technology and its history. The opening to the public took place on April 30, 1973.

Since 1983, the WFH has also been the location of the German Forging Museum , which was initially housed in Altena Castle since 1960 . It is housed in the former town hall of Neunkirchen from 1754, which was rebuilt in the WFH.

In December 1987, major changes were made to the museum's concept. Not only were the core tasks such as inventory and research into the collections intensified, but the focus was also placed on people and the interrelationship between people and technology. A concept was also pursued that was later summarized under the term museum education , first mentioned in a report by the museum's first female educator Christiane Kremer in 1989. This also resulted in the museum being renamed. It was now called "Westphalian Open Air Museum. State Museum for Crafts and Technology. ”In 1992 the addition“ Hagen ”was added, as well as other small changes later, so that it is now called“ LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen, Westphalian State Museum for Crafts and Technology ”.

present

About sixty workshops were rebuilt or reconstructed on the approximately 42 hectare site of the WFH.

Most of them are ready for operation and some of them are also regularly produced for demonstration purposes or workshops are offered. This gives visitors an insight into the development of handicrafts and trades in the region from the end of the 18th century through early industrial production to high-level industrialization at the beginning of the 20th century.

The brewery has been in active operation again since May 2012, where the Mäckinger own brand is created. There is also a traditional museum bakery, where bread and (raisin) mares are available for a low price. The German Blacksmith Museum is also located in the open-air museum.

  • "Village square"

  • Handicraft demonstration in the museum's rope workshop

  • Print shop "Haus Vorster"

  • Tobacco factory illuminated at the Christmas market

Stations

The museum currently lists 51 stations. These are:

  1. Flour mill (outside the museum)
  2. Wage Mill
  3. Pasque forge
  4. Hairdressing salon (with broom and brush maker as well as chair and frame weaving )
  5. Brass - ramming hammer
  6. Brass foundry
  7. Copper hammer
  8. Coppersmith
  9. German Blacksmith Museum
  10. Coffee grinder forge
  11. Winch forge
  12. Chain smith
  13. Nail smith
  14. Small ironmith
  15. Drill smith
  16. Horizontal and width hammer
  17. Lifting hammer
  18. Hatchet smith
  19. File cutting
  20. Hammer mill
  21. Scythe hammer
  22. Wire drawing
  23. Holmacherei / charcoal pile
  24. Paper mill
  25. Paper machine
  26. Paper mill
  27. printing house
  28. Sawmill / oil mill / wooden barn / fiber garden / oil plant garden
  29. Traction engines
  30. Zinc rolling mill
  31. Steam mill
  32. Driving belt workshop / saddlery / upholstery / portfolio workshop / shoemaking / shaping engraver
  33. Agate - grinders , goldsmith , watchmaker / Opticians
  34. Vinegar brewery / mustard mill
  35. Bakery / coffee roastery
  36. White tanner / furrier
  37. Roping
  38. House Hasp / Beekeeping / Crafts and nature
  39. Blue dyeing
  40. Temporary exhibition
  41. Tobacco factory
  42. Grocery store
  43. Smokehouse
  44. Mayor's office
  45. Carpentry ( clog making and spoon carver )
  46. Cartwright
  47. Farrier and cart smiths
  48. Gasthof zur Post
  49. Remise at the Gasthof zur Post
  50. Brewery with beer garden
  51. Weighbridge

Events

The museum is only open from April 1st to October 31st each year, with a Christmas market taking place for three days on the first weekend in Advent . In the higher part of the museum with the houses grouped into a village and in the print and paper area, the buildings are decorated with fairy lights on these days . Goods are mainly from the arts and crafts sector , and catering is also available.

In addition to the Christmas market, there are also many events, some of which are annual, some of which are unique, on the site throughout the year. Examples of this are a tractor meeting, carter days , craft days , the steampunk picnic and the autumn festival with craft market.

Library

The Freichlichtmusuem has a reference library with literature and representations of the history of handicrafts, trades and technology, including from the Westphalia-Lippe region . A total of around 15,000 volumes are available. It can be accessed free of charge by prior arrangement and is located on the upper floor of the administration building. Copies can be made using a photocopier .

See also

literature

  • Christian Kleinert, Fritz H. Sonnenschein: Museum. Westphalian Open Air Museum Hagen Westermann, Braunschweig 1980, ISSN  0341-8634 .
  • Uwe Beckmann, Lutz Engelskirchen MA: Westphalian Open Air Museum Hagen - State Museum for Crafts and Technology: Museum guide. Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe 2005, ISBN 3-926190-18-3 .

Web links

Commons : LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Museum maturity! ISBN 978-3-926190-24-6 .
  2. ↑ http://www.maeckinger-brau-manufaktur.de/museumsbrauerei.html
  3. ↑ Site plan. Retrieved April 23, 2019 .
  4. ↑ LWL | Library - LWL Open Air Museum Hagen. Retrieved April 23, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 18 ″  N , 7 ° 29 ′ 1 ″  E