Living Bee Museum Knüllwald
The Living Bee Museum Knüllwald is a privately established museum in the Niederbeisheim district of the Knüllwald community in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse, around 40 km south of Kassel. It was opened in 2000 by master beekeeper Erika Geiseler and biologist Hans-Joachim Flügel in a renovated half-timbered courtyard.
It includes a traditional museum , in which, in addition to the history of beekeeping , the relatives of the honeybees are presented in their way of life. In the garden and on the leased area of the section of the so-called Kanonenbahn , which was closed in 1986 , numerous flowering plants have been grown to provide food for a variety of flower-visiting insect species. This area is regularly recorded in a faunistic and floristic way by the museum's operators .
Children can stroke bees and throw honey, adults are introduced to the biology of stings and the history of beekeeping over coffee and bee stings. In addition to the museum operations, there is a large magazine in which, in addition to extensive specialist literature, evidence of the museum's regional faunistic and floristic research is archived.
Every year on International Museum Day in May, a special exhibition is opened in the Living Bee Museum. The museum's in-house magazine “LEBBIMUK” (see web link) will be published with a corresponding focus on this topic. In 2004 the exhibition was dedicated to the life story of the North Hessian beekeeper Freudenstein, in 2005 a special exhibition on the subject of bumblebees took place in line with the insect of the year , and in 2006 the history of beekeeping in the GDR was dealt with. In 2007, the ecology, history and development of seams was presented in collaboration with the Kassel Natural History Museum . One of the focal points of the exhibition and the booklet is the shoulder of motorways and their special flora and fauna, which are influenced by road salt, as a modern special form of a border. In 2008 the locusts were mapped in the Schwalm-Eder district, and in 2009 the disused lignite opencast mine Gombeth in Northern Hesse was presented as a habitat with extensive lists of species and a fundamental discussion about the overexploitation of our mineral resources.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 32.9 ″ N , 9 ° 31 ′ 25.1 ″ E