Barn from Asterode
The barn from Asterode is a building that has been used as an exhibition house in the Hessenpark open-air museum since 2009 and originally stood in Asterode ( Schwalm-Eder district ).
history
Today's exhibition house was a barn in a four-sided courtyard in the municipality of Asterode, now part of Neukirchen im Knüll . The farm was laid out when Asterode was founded, around the year 1100. The courtyard covered approx. 6,000 m². It was a residential building with a schnapps distillery , storage rooms, stables , barns, two pull-out houses , a large paved courtyard as well as cottage gardens and orchards . The postal address was Asteroder Straße 11 or Hof Nr. 8.
In 1620, Asmus Koch was the first owner of the property to be mentioned in a document. In 1750 the farm had 160 hectares of land, four oxen, two cows and 30 sheep.
The two moving houses were built in 1823. In the 1840s, Johann Heinrich Schreiber (1797–1871) and his wife Anna Katharina, née Blumenauer (1799–1866), built the house that still exists today. Johann Heinrich Schreiber, the son of David Schreiber, was a member of the Kurhessische Estates assembly from 1862 . His daughter Anna Elisabeth (1824–1897) married the economist Heinrich Haas (1830–1865) from Steindorf in 1851 . The Haas family still owns the property to this day.
A distillery had existed on the farm since 1832 at the latest. This was so successful that Heinrich Haas jun. (a son of Heinrich Haas, who died in 1865 ) had the highest income (and thus the highest tax burden ) in Asterode in 1892 with 4,745 marks (in today's purchasing power 31,778 euros) .
The distillery was so successful in the 1930s that it had to buy potato schnapps from a number of other distilleries and sell them under its own name. Even after the Second World War could with the 32 percent " Steinwald -Tropfen" and 42 percent schnapps "crumpled fire" the sales successes continue. Since the Haas family did not have the trademark rights to “Knüllfeuer” protected and instead a competitor asserted them, the name had to be changed to “Knüllfeuer”. After the sales figures fell, the schnapps production was stopped in the late 1950s.
At that time the focus of the farm was on milk production with 30 cattle. In the 1960s, the farm was converted to pig fattening . In 1973 the moving houses were demolished (after refugee families had previously lived in them).
After the stable barn was dismantled in 1983 and moved to Hessenpark, another stable building with a hayloft was demolished 200 times , so that today only the main house remains of the original courtyard.
Components
The older, left part of the barn was built in 1802. The client was the landowner David Schreiber, and the inscription next to the left gate names Christof Koch as the master carpenter .
The barn was expanded in 1832, and the inscription above the middle gate names Heinrich Koch as a master carpenter.
The barn was used to store hay and straw as well as a horse stable .
At the end of the 19th or beginning of the 20th century, the barn was extended for the last time, with the right part.
In 1983 the barn was dismantled and taken to the Hessenpark.
Todays use
In 2009 the stable barn in Hessenpark was rebuilt and has been used as an exhibition house ever since. The reason for this use is the size of about 10 by 30 meters and the location in the North Hesse area of the open-air museum. This distributes the streams of users that used to be concentrated on the Central Hesse group.
The reconstruction was planned on the basis of original photographs to reflect the appearance in the second half of the 20th century. Inside, it should be possible to present temporary exhibitions on three levels, i.e. H. the interiors should avoid false half-timbered romanticism, be neutral and handicapped accessible. To implement this, a steel structure was erected within the building and screwed to the outer framework. This construction supports the mezzanine floors and allowed the installation of an elevator .
A wall heater and a loading and unloading ventilation system allows control of the indoor climate . The two-winged through tennis doors were reconstructed true to the original and also allow large exhibits to be displayed .
The reconstruction cost around three million euros. The exhibition center was opened in autumn 2009 with the exhibition "On the move - How Hessen is changing".
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- Ralf Nitschke: History of the farm No. 8 in Asterode and its owners ; in: Yearbook 2010 of the support group Freilichtmuseum Hessenpark, pp. 76–80
- Axel Lindloff: From the farm building to the exhibition house - The stable barn from Asterode ; in: Yearbook 2010 of the support group Freilichtmuseum Hessenpark, pp. 81–85
Coordinates: 50 ° 16 ′ 37.7 " N , 8 ° 31 ′ 29.2" E