Dat ole Huus

The Dat ole Huus Heath Museum ( Low German for: The Old House ) is a museum of local history in Wilsede in Lower Saxony, which was founded in 1907. This makes it one of the oldest open-air museums in Germany.

Museum

The Association Nature Park Association ( VNP ) with his foundation nature reserve Lueneburg Heath are the operators of the museum, which is advised by the open-air museum at Kiekeberg. Since 2004, the exhibition sheepfold heard on the Emhoff to the museum. The exhibition provides information about the historical land management form the Heidenbauer time around 1850. Shows you the typical home inventory and the equipment of a heathen court.

History

Built in 1742 and is the oldest farmhouse in the Lüneburg Heath Nature Park and a typical house of the North Heath. The teacher Bernhard Dageförde 1907 translocate the left by a farmer used as a residence building Hanstedt to Wilsede. There he taught in a one Heide Museum. Dageförde stocked it with numerous pagan typical furnishings.

Even if the Emhoff carries an older construction date, researchers assume that Dat ole Huus has a much older Flettbereich ( built around 1540).