Winsen museum courtyard
The Museumshof Winsen is an open-air museum in Winsen (Aller) in Lower Saxony , which was established in 1982. The museum consists of a typical courtyard complex of the southern Lüneburg Heath around which other typical regional buildings are grouped.
Museum grounds
The museum grounds are within the residential area of Winsen. It is embedded in a spacious, partly tree-lined area with a hill and a typical heather appearance.
The museum sponsor is the Winser Heimatverein. e. V., which was founded in 1979 by ten people. Currently (2019) the association has around 700 members. The members of the association largely carried out the construction work on the museum grounds themselves.
building
All buildings of the museum were at this location translocated . It was created between the middle of the 17th century and the 20th century. The interior furnishings and the tools on display date mainly from the 19th century.
Courtyard
The center of the museum is a rural courtyard in the Südheide , to which six historical buildings belong. The main building is a low German hall house built in 1653 in Winsen in a two- column construction . In 1980 it was removed from its previous location and in 1982 it was rebuilt as the first building of the open-air museum at its new location.
One of the outbuildings is a three-post barn from 1727 . A hay barn built in 1840 comes from Hornbostel (municipality of Wietze ). Their wood has been used in other buildings before. The pigsty from 1860 was on a farm in Südwinsen until 1985. A staircase store from the first half of the 18th century contains exhibitions with beekeeping equipment and linen items . The warehouse was moved from its location on the Bergen military training area to here in 1981 . The bakery with the clay oven was freely reconstructed based on old models. Twice a year the oven is heated to bake bread.
More buildings
Further historical buildings of the region were erected on the museum grounds, adjacent to the courtyard. The main building is the Dat groode Hus , built in Buchholz (Aller) in 1795 and built here in 1991. As the largest building on the museum grounds, it is used for cultural events such as concerts, readings and lectures. In it there is a wedding room of the community. In 2005 the Kalandhof was rebuilt, which had been in Winsen since 1781. The designation is based on the builder's obligation to pay the Kaland Brotherhood. The museum café is located here today. Other buildings are a carriage house built in 1860 and two more stairwells . An apiary presents the heather beekeeping that was once widespread in the region . There is also an orchard with apple tree varieties from the region.
See also
literature
- Museumshof Winsen (Aller) - The little museum guide
Web links
Coordinates: 52 ° 40 ′ 49 ″ N , 9 ° 55 ′ 14 ″ E