Lüssow estate
The Lüssow estate , also known as the "Traditional Vorpommersches Landgut Lüssow", is an old estate and LPG facility that has been converted into an agricultural museum.
geography
The estate is located north of the Lüssow (Gützkow) through-road (L 263) and can be reached via the western approach to the park or the entrance on Anklamer Straße. Sufficient parking spaces are available at the Alter Speicher. The former municipality of Lüssow was incorporated into the city of Gützkow in January 2010 .
history
The Lüssow estate in its current form was laid out in the mid-19th century. After the land reform in the GDR in 1945, the estate was redesigned, that is, partially demolished and the remaining buildings rebuilt for individual farming. At the end of the 1950s and 1960s, the remaining buildings were rebuilt and supplemented with the LPG buildings. The latter were usually simple one-story stalls for breeding, dairy and slaughter cattle. Some technical buildings for garages and repair shops were also added. After 1990, almost all buildings on the estate and the LPG came to an end, which means vacancy. Only a few parts of the building were still used privately.
In March 1996, on the initiative of the Klut couple, the association was founded: “Schloss und Gut Lüssow” eV to preserve the buildings of the former estate. That was courageous for the small village: to let the remaining buildings of the estate and the abandoned LPG stables in the village deteriorate into an empty shell did not fit into the ideas of the former Lüssow community.
The buildings and the site were cleaned up and renovated, particularly through the possible job creation measures at the time. An essential basis for the museum and technical collection was the holdings of the Züssow agricultural technology collection, which had no future there due to lack of space and organizationally. Almost the entire inventory was collected and restored by Jürgen Mausolf, the former managing director of GmbH Kartoffellager & Handels-Zentrale Züssow.
Since 2004 the "Vorpommersche Landgut" has been imparting knowledge about agriculture and life in the country. The modernization of the estate around 1900 and the past decades are the focus.
“Agriculture is ... part of primary production (primary sector). In addition to arable farming, livestock farming in the broader sense, agriculture also includes horticulture including cultivation of ornamental plants, vegetables and fruit, forestry, hunting and agricultural ancillary trades (e.g. mills, dairies, cellars). "
Even the term “traditional” refers to the socio-historical dimension of this production sector. The estate economy, which has decisively shaped the appearance of our region, has long been a functioning model of the connection of all sub-areas of agriculture as an almost self-sufficient regional production and supply unit.
On an area of 1.7 hectares of the former estate and LPG Lüssow, which later belonged to LPG (T) and LPG (P) Gützkow, agriculture and rural life in Western Pomerania from the 19th and 20th centuries are brought closer.
The Lüssow estate is now managed by the Vorpommern Labor and Structural Development Association in Gribow. It has developed into a tourist focus of the "Vorpommerschen Dorfstraße" .
Building the collection
The estate museum is structured thematically. The entrance building , building 1 , a former barn with a separate apartment , houses areas of rural handicrafts and housekeeping on 450 m². In the lower area, next to the cash desk and the museum shop, there is the facility's gastronomy . In the back there is the stone oven for bread, which is also sold. On the upper floor is the household collection including the classroom and the rural living and kitchen rooms. All household appliances, furniture, etc. from the 20th century to the present day are on display.
In building 2 , the dairy industry is thematized on 192 m² and provides information about applied milking methods, milk processing and cheese production . Devices, milk systems and processing items are shown in the original and on many display boards.
In the potato industry exhibition in Building 3 , all work processes are shown on 364 m² from the first tillage to harvest. 33 display boards convey a journey through time through potato cultivation, history, potato varieties, pests, botany and uses.
The grain industry exhibition in Hall 4 presents machines for tillage, seed care, grain harvesting and processing and also older tools such as flails, scythes, rakes and much more on 351 m²
But the highlight for many visitors is Hall 5 , the tractor exhibition. More than 40 mostly roadworthy tractors from all times since 1900 are shown here. It is the largest exhibition of historical tractors in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. On special days, visitors can drive their own tractors and children are driven by the supervisors. The Lüssow village festival is such a special day, when other tractor collectors from the area also come to present their tractors and vehicles.
The Hall 6 is the livestock industry dedicated. Livestock boxes, feeding devices, transport boxes, etc. are exhibited here.
Between the halls there are still machines that do not fit into the hall, such as threshing boxes, combine harvesters and other large equipment. Collections of plows are also exhibited in the open spaces of the spacious courtyard. In Hall 6 there is a petting zoo for pets (e.g. goats, sheep, rabbits, etc.). In the middle of the courtyard is an old transformer house, which is now used as a dovecote with a surrounding aviary.
Rest areas and children's playgrounds complete the entire facility.
Lots of space in the stables, lots of technology to touch and climb on, set the “Vorpommersche Landgut” apart from conventional agricultural museums.
Individual evidence
- ^ Bibliographisches Institut & FA Brockhaus AG, Mannheim 2001.
Coordinates: 53 ° 54 ′ 52.5 ″ N , 13 ° 29 ′ 51 ″ E