Thuringian Open Air Museum Hohenfelden
The Thuringian Open-Air Museum Hohenfelden was founded in 1979 as an open-air museum of peasant or rural buildings for the region of Central Thuringia in Hohenfelden . The founder and first director of the museum was the settlement and desertification researcher Hartmut Wenzel.
location
The museum currently has around 30 buildings, some of which are so-called "in-situ buildings" in their original locations within the village of Hohenfelden. The main location of the open-air museum, the “Am Eichenberg” group, is, however, a few hundred meters north of Hohenfelden below the Eichberg (475 m). Both locations can be reached via the museum path.
description
It has been continuously built up and expanded since it was founded. Historical buildings from various villages in the region that could not have been preserved in their traditional locations were moved to an open space designated as a museum site. At the new location, they have a new purpose as authentic evidence of bygone worlds in rural Central Thuringia. The buildings are presented holistically, i.e. in a natural and cultural environment based on their historical situation. Cottage gardens, meadows, fields, but also fruit trees and farm animals are just as much a part of it as the original furnishings of the buildings, work tools and other things of daily use. The buildings exemplify elements of rural architecture typical of the time and region , but also embody the wide diversification of the social structure in past centuries. These products range from stately farms with a village smithy, a community-Hirtenhaus, an operational historic village Brauhaus , a day laborer house , a unique in European open-air museums flower pot - pottery up to the former parsonage of the village Hohenfelden, also the old in the village school is located.
The buildings date from different periods, the oldest from 1604, the youngest, a bowling alley , from 1911. The buildings are presented in different time segments. In addition to the permanent presentation, a number of special and permanent exhibitions are shown, e.g. B. on the history of sheep farming in Thuringia and other folklore topics.
See also
literature
- Michael Happe, Franziska Zschäck; District Weimarer Land, Thuringian Open Air Museum Hohenfelden; Förderverein Thüringer Freilichtmuseum Hohenfelden eV (Hrsg.): Thüringer Freilichtmuseum Hohenfelden. Companion for the museum visit. December 2011.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Axel Stefek: Tonkuckuck and Roter Hahn. On the construction and operating history of the Rauch flower pot press. In: Home Thuringia. Cultural landscape, environment, living space. Vol. 8 (2001), Issue 2/3, pp. 66-71.
Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 20.8 " N , 11 ° 9 ′ 52.8" E