Museum "Heimatstube" Schönholthausen

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Museum "Heimatstube"

The “Heimatstube” Schönholthausen museum is a local museum in Schönholthausen , a village in the Finnentrop municipality in the Olpe district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). It is located in the listed building at Zur Schlerre 2 .

Regional exhibits on agriculture and forestry are presented on an area of ​​around 260 m². Other focal points are village handicrafts and local customs. A carpenter's shop, a doctor's office, a blacksmith's shop and a shoemaker's workshop show the village life in earlier times. Tools and equipment for home slaughter and milk processing are evidence of the domestic conditions. These are also illustrated by exercise books and cover books in which money transactions, money lending and interest payments, wine, fruit and cattle sales, etc. were recorded. In another area, the fate of emigrants to America, including that of Henry M. Arens , is documented.

Exhibits

  • Equipment for processing milk

  • Manually operated boring mill

  • Patent certificate from 1936 for the first potato peeler with a lengthways knife head to the handle, inventor Albert Deimel

  • Patent certificate from 1936 for the first potato peeler with a lengthways knife head to the handle, inventor Albert Deimel, in the foreground the model

  • Extractor (copier) by David Gestetner

  • Wannemühle also called wind sweep. The machine cleaned the grain manually

Web links

Commons : Museum "Heimatstube" Schönholthausen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 28.7 ″  N , 8 ° 0 ′ 17.4 ″  E