Upper Lusatian Forest Museum

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View of the Lessing School
Lessing School, 1955

The Oberlausitz Forest Museum is located in the municipality of Sohland on the Spree in the Bautzen district and is run by the Freundeskreis Forstmuseum Oberlausitz e. V. operated with the support of the municipality of Sohland an der Spree.

location

The museum is located in the former Lessing School (Hainspacher Straße 21) in Obersohland. The local history museum Altes Weberhaus is in the immediate vicinity .

Lessing School

The Lessing School was the village school of Obersohland, since 1923 it was called "Lessing School". In 2000 the primary school was closed. In the same year the association Oberlausitzer Holzgestaltung e. V. (Ola-Ho) and set up a workshop in the school building, in which mainly children's play equipment is manufactured. In 2001 an exhibition on forest work was set up in a room in the school, from which the Upper Lusatian Forest Museum emerged.

Ola-Ho is the organizer of the annual wood and forest festival that has taken place on the school premises since 2002. In 2004 the 2nd Pumphutt special exhibition was shown in the Lessing School .

In 2015 the municipality of Sohland sold the Lessing School to Ola-Ho. The former school has developed into a socio-cultural and museum center in Sohlander Oberdorf.

museum

In the post-reunification period, former foresters saved tools, machines, equipment and books from forest houses from destruction. In 2001 the exhibition "Forest Work" was set up in a former school room. This was expanded in 2005 to include the “Forester's Room” and in 2007 to include the “Forest Survey and Forest Maps” exhibition.

Between 2014 and 2015, the exhibition "Historical Forest Uses in Upper Lusatia" was created in cooperation with the Schluckenau Middle Forestry School, which is funded by the Neisse Euroregion . At the same time, the Upper Lusatian Forest Museum was networked with the Forest Museum in Schluckenau Castle as part of a Euroregion project . A cross-border hiking trail has been laid out between the two museums, leading over 6.5 kilometers from Obersohland through the Schebich and Neugrafenwalde (Nové Hraběcí) to Schluckenau .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Living in the Museum , in: Sächsische Zeitung , April 19, 2006.
  2. ^ Pumphutt exhibitions
  3. ↑ Wood designer buy Lessing School , in: Sächsische Zeitung , September 26, 2015.

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 2.6 ″  N , 14 ° 24 ′ 25.2 ″  E