Hösseringen Museum Village

The museum Hosseringen in Hösseringen in Lower Saxony shows on a site of 100,000 m² main building types of the Low German hall house.

History

The museum village was founded in 1975 by the Association Agricultural Museum Lueneburg Heath eV. The Museum Society has its own book series out, which deals in particular with the rural history of the Lüneburg Heath and the local craft techniques, and thus sets the topic of the museum village Hösseringen also continued nationwide. Museum Director Dr. Ulrich Brohm.

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The grounds of the museum village Hösseringen is surrounded by vast forest areas of the Lüneburg Heath, which form a natural background for building and agricultural display surfaces of the museum village.

The display of hall houses are faithful reconstructions, which mostly come from the district of Uelzen. To date, 26 buildings were rebuilt from the period between 16th and 19th centuries. The showpiece of the museum village hall is the home of the Court Brümmer, a farmstead dating from the early 17th century.

Kötnerhaus of 1596

Barn 1573

Forging of 1845

Pigsty of 1835

In permanent exhibitions insights are given in work techniques and equipment apiculture, sheep farming, spinning, weaving, blacksmithing and many other rural crafts. In addition to the exhibitions in particular, great emphasis is placed upon illustrating ancient crafts and their technology in rural areas in the workflow. So horses are often foggy or woven cloths in different buildings or baked bread, for example, in the forge. Also cottage gardens around 1900 are managed and illustrate the life of the rural population.

Various flail

Steam engine of the Lanz of 1913

In the smithy

In Kötnerhaus of 1750

The museum also houses a collection of 45,000 objects from the rural heritage of the Lüneburg Heath, an archive of sources on rural history of the Lüneburg Heath and a library with 20,000 volumes.