Fishing Landscape Museum

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Marxenhaus

The landscape museum fishing in Unewatt is a folklore museum sponsored by the cultural foundation of the Schleswig-Flensburg district . The museum consists of five “museum islands” (stations) that can be visited on a circular route through Unewatt. With the exception of the Marxenhaus, all buildings are in their original place.

Planning and creation

Fortuna windmill is one of the museum's attractions, historical photography around 1900

In the summer of 1979, the ruin of a south-fishing specialist hall building in Süderbrarup had to give way to new construction. Monument and folklore experts made sure that the house was measured and removed and that the parts that could still be used were stored in the autumn of 1980. The Marxenhaus from Süderbrarup was rebuilt in Unewatt.

On June 23, 1993, the fishing landscape museum in Unewatt was opened after six years of preparation. Together with the office and the municipality of Langballig , the cultural foundation of the Schleswig-Flensburg district created the political, legal, financial and structural requirements.

concept

At the same time as the decision to rebuild the Marxenhaus from Süderbrarup in Unewatt, the decision was also made to use the building as a museum and to include the village of Unewatt in the museum concept. In contrast to already existing open-air museums , in which building, residential and economic forms from larger regions were brought together and rebuilt on a limited area, in Unewatt, starting from the Marxenhaus (which is not in its original location), it was in the place itself to show and preserve traces of past rural life on already existing buildings. The result was a decentralized museum spread across the site, which the visitor can access on a designated circular route through the village. The fishing landscape museum in Unewatt allows a holistic view of the past and goes beyond the exclusive preservation of the building fabric. It is comparable to the concept of an ecomuseum, which was first presented in France in 1972 with the Écomuseé du Creusot-Montceau .

Stations

Marxenhaus

At the entrance to the village there is the Marxenhaus, a southern Angelite specialist hall building. Its oldest part of the building is the stable, which, based on dendrochronological studies, can be dated to the year 1626. Further renovations were carried out in 1797 and 1825. Two different construction features are characteristic of this type of house, which are combined under one roof: In the older part of the stable: the Low German specialist hall house and in the younger part of the house: the Nordangler wall stud house. Together with the wall-mounted barn built at right angles next to the Marxenhaus from around 1820, the two large buildings show the most important parts of an earlier courtyard, which formerly included a free-standing acceptance, a pigsty and a bakery. There are only sparse sources about the earlier room layout in the Marxenhaus. Presumably it was a chimney-free smoke house until the first major renovation in 1797. During the reconstruction and the arrangement of the rooms, the main focus was on a survey by G. Wolf from the 1930s.

Pictures, Marxenhaus

The smokehouse and the transformer house

These two smaller buildings are exactly opposite each other on Dorfstrasse, by the former wheelwright shop . Unewatt received electricity in 1922 and the transformer house was in service for 80 years until it was replaced by a more modern one elsewhere in 2003. The building was saved from demolition and today gives an insight into the beginnings of electricity supply in the country. The smokehouse opposite, built in 1894, was threatened with demolition and could be secured. After a complete renovation, it has been a museum building with its two smokehouse since 2005.

Pictures, smokehouse and transformer house

The butter mill

The butter mill building is a watermill and reconstruction. Various sources such as archaeological finds, an old court chronicle, cadastral plans or photos made a detailed reconstruction of the facility possible. Between 1862 and around 1920, milk was processed into butter and cheese in the farm's own dairy. The water from the nearby reservoir drove an overshot waterwheel through a firing channel . The hydropower was fed into the interior of the building via turntable gears and transmission, where it drove a rotary butter barrel. The foundations of an oven were also among the rediscovered traces of the butter mill . It has also been reconstructed. Butter and baking days take place during the museum season. The butter mill is a unique example of the early mechanization of fishing in fishing .

Pictures, butter mill

"Fortuna" windmill

The windmill was built in 1878 and ceased operations in 1967. When the museum opened in the summer of 1993, the Dutch gallery “Fortuna” was in ruins. It was not until a year later, in the summer of 1994, that the restoration work began there, once the necessary funds had been approved. In 1996 the new blades turned in the wind for the first time. In the meantime, the mill has a completely built-in "machine interior" again. These include functional grinding processes, a centrifugal sifter, an oat crusher, a centrifugal governor, an elevator, a groats cutter, a cleaning machine and other technical equipment. Museum educational programs for school classes are offered in the mill.

Pictures, windmill "Fortuna"

Christesen barn

The large angle barn was built in 1895 and burned down almost to the ground in 1987. Today it is used as an exhibition hall for the museum. Agricultural equipment and machines, special and changing exhibitions on almost 1000 m² provide information about the past of the Schleswig-Flensburg region.

Pictures, Christesen barn

See also

literature

  • Malte Bachmann: The fishing landscape museum in Unewatt, from the idea to the realization , series of publications by the Schleswig-Flensburg District Cultural Foundation, Volume 6, 2003
  • Jochen Clausen: Ten Years of Unewatt , Pictures and Reports on the Landscape Museum , Series of publications by the Schleswig-Flensburg District Cultural Foundation, Volume 7, 2003
  • Karen Precht: The fishing landscape museum in Unewatt , Kieler Blätter zur Volkskunde, Volume 29, 1997
  • Bernd Philipsen: 150 years of Flensburger Tageblatt: A fishing village as a museum. In 1993 the Unewatt Landscape Museum was inaugurated. The small town with its old buildings will be integrated. In: Flensburger Tageblatt . November 18, 2015, accessed June 6, 2017 .

Web links

Commons : Landscape  Museum Fishing - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. The “living” museum. museum-unewatt.de, accessed on June 25, 2017 .

Coordinates: 54 ° 47 ′ 42 ″  N , 9 ° 39 ′ 0 ″  E