Veenpark
 Plaggenhütte in the museum |
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| place | Barger-Compascuum (municipality of Emmen ), Drenthe , Netherlands |
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open air museum
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| opening | 1966 |
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The Veenpark Museum is an open-air museum in Barger-Compascuum (municipality of Emmen ), Drenthe , Netherlands . With an area of 160 hectares including the outdoor area that can only be reached by light rail , it is one of the largest open-air museums in Europe.
history
The museum was founded in 1966 under the name “'t Aole Compas. Nationaale Veenpark ”founded. The Moordorf Barger Compascuum, which is directly adjacent to the park, celebrated its centenary this year. On this occasion, some bog cottages were reconstructed and furnished. The old bog village 't Aole Compas and the newer settlement Bargermond were reconstructed for the park ; In the open-air area in particular, the museum shows the history of peat extraction in different time periods. The open-air museum now covers a total of 160 hectares.
The first exhibition in the 1960s acted like a magnet and many old tools and equipment were donated to the museum. Thanks to the temporary support of the government, the number of houses built could also be increased. However, this support was steadily reduced in the following years.
In 1993 the "Aart's Paradijs" building was opened on the park grounds. The building had formed the apartment of the earth worm Aart at the 1992 Floriade in Zoetermeer and had been moved to Veenpark. From 1994 to 1996 the park was called “Aards Paradijs” in reference to the Floriade. However, the overall concept failed in 1996. The “Aart's Paradijs” building, also known as the “Children's Theater”, was converted into the Dutch Harmonium Museum, which opened in 2001 and still exists today.
According to RTV Drenthe, Veenpark tried in 2006 to “get rid of” the “ Alfred J. Kwak's wooden shoe house” that was set up on the site in 1999 , as the house allegedly did not provide additional visitors and thus income. The background for the installation of the house is (in addition to Herman van Veen's commitment to the park in 1999) the ultimately unsuccessful attempt by the park management to save the remains of the “Aart's Paradijs” concept. H. to offer children's entertainment events on the park grounds. The Kwak house is still in Veenpark today (2018).
Since 2013, pleasure boats have been able to use the Veenpark Canal as a section of the Veenvaart on their way from Erica to Ter Apel . Boat crews can moor in Veenpark to spend the night.
Worth seeing
The colonist settlement 't Aole Compas with plague huts dates from the beginning of the 1870s. In the village of Bargermond , the period from 1920 to 1966 is shown in the second half of the 19th century. The village includes u. a. a church, a pub, a school, a mill, a bakery and a forge.
In the entrance building in the permanent exhibition Veenomenale Hondsrug, the history of the moor and the peat extraction below the Hondsrug ridge as well as the cultivation of buckwheat in the time of the moor pioneers are shown. Moats with islands run through the villages. The tip of the Feldbahn-Wendeschleife enables a view of the moor, which has largely been freed from birch vegetation (cf. the field name "Berkenrode").
In the spring, the cotton grass blooms in the outdoor area , in the late summer the heather ( Calluna ). In spring, you can walk to view some lush, blooming rhododendron bushes as high as a house.
Elephant sculpture at the entrance
Entrance building
Schuur Church
Mill De Berk
Bascule bridge over the Veenpark Canal
View from the field railway onto the high moor
Peat cut with wheelbarrow
Forms of locomotion
The settlements of 't Aole Compas and Bargemond can be visited on foot. The area to the northwest of the bascule bridge can only be reached by light rail, from which you can only get off at the Calluna stop .
A total of three modes of transport make it easier to see the buildings, the workplaces and the natural surroundings: two narrow-gauge railways , mostly powered by diesel locomotives, provided by the Eerste Drentse vereniging van Stoomliefhebbers (EDS) and a converted peat ship.
From the nearby Berkenrode train station, a historic “tram” runs between the entrance area and the two museum villages. With a field train (veentrein), also from Berkenrode station , the journey leads past the Harmonium Museum over a bascule bridge over the Veenpark Canal to a hand peat cut at the Calluna stop . The former peat ship shuttles back and forth on the Veenpark Canal between the bascule bridge and the 't Aole Compas stop , where you can change to the “tram”.
"Tram" at the stop "Berkenrode"
Light railway at the " Calluna " stop
Converted peat ship on the Veenpark Canal
See also
Web links
- Museum website (Dutch, German)
- Interesting facts about the history of the plant with many drawings and photos In: industriespoor.nl (Dutch)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aart's Paradijs (1992) . youtube.com
- ^ Harmonium museums working group: Harmonium museums
- ^ Harmonium Museum Nederland: Geschiedenis van het museum
- ^ "Herman van Veen in de Pers": Alfred J. Kwak in (Herman van) Veenpark . Nieuwsblad van de Noorden , January 13, 1999
- ^ RTV Drenthe: Veenpark wil van Kwak af . January 19, 2006
- ↑ Veenvaart . skipperguide.de
- ↑ Tourist Info Emmen: Ports and landing stages
Coordinates: 52 ° 45 ′ 21 ″ N , 7 ° 1 ′ 20 ″ E