Rieck House

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The Rieck house with a cottage garden, view from the Curslacker dyke

The Rieck-Haus (also Rieck Haus in its own representation ) is an open-air museum in Hamburg-Curslack that specializes in depicting rural life in the Vierlanden region before the industrial revolution . The museum uses a homestead with a hall house on the Curslacker Elbdeich, which was managed by the Rieck family until 1940 and which has been part of the Bergedorf museum landscape as the Rieck Haus open-air museum since the 1950s .

history

Cottage garden, hay barn, barn and coker windmill
Heubarg (left), the oldest barn form of the march
Coker windmill as a field drainage mill with a water screw
The groot Döns (Low German: large room)

The court's written documentation goes back to 1633. In that year, after a major expansion, the owners of the time carved the usual inscriptions into the lintel of the side door and into a beam on the courtyard side of the Rieck House ("Carsten and Catrina Timm, née Eggers"). Dendrological studies suggest that the core framework of the specialist hall house was built around 1532. Two conversions or repairs in 1545 and 1565 are also documented in this way. This means that the farm was built at a time when the drainage, embankment and reclamation of the Elbe lowlands were complete (around 1550) - before this area was first mentioned as "Vierlande" (1556).

In the centuries that followed, the farm was continuously managed and expanded. A prosperous business emerged, which is also reflected in the decoration of the courtyard buildings. The main house, like many other rich Vierlander Höfe, has a lot of decorative infills with tiles set in patterns.

Through marriages and inheritances, the family residing on the farm changed several times over the centuries; As the last clan to use the farm for agriculture, the Rieck family is the namesake of today's facility. Since around 1900 the farm had fallen into disrepair, so that it threatened to collapse at the beginning of the Second World War. In 1940 the monument protection authority of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg took over the yard and made makeshift security for the building. From 1949 the main house and the draw well were systematically renovated by Emil Evers, who also lived in the house, and in 1954 the museum began operating as a branch of the Altona Museum . In addition, some buildings and equipment from the surrounding area, which were typical of rural life in the Vierlanden, were relocated to the site: a wooden coker windmill from Ochsenwerder , with which the fields of the Vierlande and Marschlande were drained; a bakery from Neuengamme , a hay barn (an open barn shape - originally for the unthreshed grain, from the end of the 17th century for the hay; fixed barns were built for the grain) from Allermöhe as well as a vegetable ewer , as it was used for the ship Transport of goods to the nearby Hamburg was used and which was originally based in Ochsenwerder-Neudorf. A farmer's garden laid out in 1962 according to the “traditional four-country way” rounds off the insight into pre-industrial rural life in the region.

Today, not only the buildings and their inventory are exhibited on the site, but school classes and other visitors are introduced to the everyday lives of the people who have lived there in the past centuries in a variety of activities.

Trivia

The two families mentioned in the inscriptions from 1663 still exist in the Vierlanden today. So far, the Timm family has demonstrably provided six Curslacker bailiffs, four church lawyers and three court people. The Rieck family, who worked on the museum until the 2000s, can be traced back to the Vierlanden for at least twelve generations.

See also

literature

  • Gerhard Kaufmann, Torkild Hinrichsen : The open-air museum Rieck-Haus in the Vierlanden near Hamburg . Husum-Verlag, Husum 2000, ISBN 3-88042-949-9 .
  • Erwin May: Emil Evers is a living history of four countries, in: Bergedorfer Zeitung, Bergedorf Local Report, December 12, 1978
  • Harald Richert: Between Bille and Elbe . Verlag Otto Heinevetter, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-87474-966-5 , p. 160 ff .
  • Helga Schmal: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany . Vier- und Marshland. Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-7672-0969-1 .
  • Joachim Schmidt, Michael Zapf: Bergedorf in Transition . Median-Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-929229-11-0 .

Web links

Commons : Rieckhuus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ P. Gädtgens: The field drainage mills of four and marshlands . In: Lichtwark booklet No. 12. Ed .: Bergedorf district office, 1955 - now: HB-Werbung publishing house, Hamburg-Bergedorf. ISSN  1862-3549 .
  2. ↑ HW Haase: The cottage garden in the Vierlanden . In: Lichtwark booklet No. 24. Ed .: Bergedorf district office, 1962 - now: HB-Werbung publishing house, Hamburg-Bergedorf. ISSN  1862-3549 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 27 ′ 33.5 ″  N , 10 ° 12 ′ 52.5 ″  E