Vogtland open-air museum Landwüst
The Vogtland open-air museum Landwüst is located in the Landwüst district of the town of Markneukirchen . It is located in the southernmost tip of the Free State of Saxony in the border triangle between Saxony-Bavaria-Czech Republic. The museum is run by the Vogtlandkreis , and it is operated by Vogtland Kultur GmbH.
Founded in 1968 as the Landwüst Farming Museum, today it shows, on an area of around 2.5 hectares , how the Vogtland farmers lived and worked from the end of the 18th century using historical buildings, rare collection objects and typical animals and plants.
history
In the 1950s, the rural desert farmer Walter Wunderlich became aware of objects and evidence of “old” rural life while doing research for a local history. These had become superfluous as a result of the industrialization and cooperativeisation of agriculture in the GDR and were now found in barns, attics and cellars. In the Vogtland region he collected a large number of materials at random. In the early 1960s, as a result of this collecting activity, a home parlor was opened in Landwüst, and in 1968 the Landwüst Farming Museum was founded in the house of Johann Georg Wunderlich. Today's open-air museum has developed from this since the 1970s .
Buildings / courtyards
A large part of the museum's residential and farm buildings have been preserved in situ , so existing houses at the place where they were built were converted. Around 20 buildings, most of which are accessible to visitors, form four courtyards with residential stables , associated barns and shed houses . There are also cattle scales, a bakery and an apiary, and the kultur.tenne as an exhibition and event barn .
collection
The Vogtland open-air museum Landwüst collects material items that come from the Vogtland and represent the way of life and work of the regional population. With its extensive collections, it reflects the everyday rural and rural culture in Vogtland from the late 18th to the middle of the 20th century. The main areas of the collection are agriculture , agricultural engineering , beekeeping , furniture , household items and handicrafts .
See also
literature
- Benno Kolbe: The house of Johann Georg Wunderlich. About the original function of today's museum building and the way of working and living of its former residents . Markneukirchen 1981.
- Vogtländisches Bauernmuseum Landwüst (publisher): From the Heimatstube to the Vogtland open-air museum: 25 years of the Vogtländisches Bauernmuseum Landwüst . Plauen 1993.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 16 ′ 12 ″ N , 12 ° 19 ′ 52.8 ″ E