Museumsdorf Niedersulz

The museum Niedersulz in Niedersulz is the largest open air museum in Lower Austria.

Formation

Opened in 1977, the low- Sulzer Joseph Geissler in the abandoned elementary school in Niedersulz the Weinviertler Village Museum, and presented his folklore collection. 1979, the foundation stone was laid to the museum village. The municipality Sulz presented an approximately 5 -acre meadow on acidic Sulzbach available. The first building was a Weinviertler Streckhof was threatened with demolition. Meanwhile, 75 buildings were transferred to the museum village. Translozierbare components such as wooden structures, windows, roof tiles but also be re-used, which is usually made ​​of adobe brick masonry is built of new material. Body of the museum was the end of 2007 a ​​volunteer club.

In 2008, the building and collections were placed in a charitable foundation. Operation and maintenance of the system causes the Weinviertler Museum Niedersulz deployment and operation Gmbh, a subsidiary of Kultur.Region.Niederösterreich.

In May 2010 the Lower Austrian parliament decided the expansion of the museum village. The total area was expanded from 3 to 20 ha, to improve the infrastructure, built a yard with restoration workshops, depot and growing nursery and built a new driveway. Landmark of the expansion project is the museum portal, a new approach with its visitor center, museum shop, hospitality and administration. Between new and existing village access 1.5 ha of garden areas have been created, including the reconstruction of the school garden after the original plans from the 1880s. Opening of the museum portal and the new space was the 16th May 2012.

In 2011, the volunteers began to perform each of SCI projects with young people from all over the world who contribute to the design of the museum village as part of the year.

In June 2012, the Niedersulz has been certified by the WCC as a barrier-free.

Village Ensemble

A special feature of the museum, also in comparison with other comparable open-air museums, is the representation of a single village of considerable size in the diversity of its areas of life. One approach that has been implemented for essentially consisting of translocated buildings open-air museums in this consequence only in the open-air museum The Funen Village in Odense.

75 properties almost the entire region form a village ensemble with a village square, paths and Kellergasse. In addition to typical for the wine district hook and stretch courts can be found in the museum village farm buildings, craft stores, Taubenkobel a functioning water mill and three Catholic churches or chapels. A special feature is the Lutheran chapel Niederfellabrunn dar. The museum village is operated an authentic historic inn, on a farm typical pets are kept. The entire site is designed as a natural garden, be drawn in which both old varieties of fruit trees as well as typical Weinviertler cottage gardens have been created.

Baptist Museum

2007 and 2008 the smallholders House of Wilfer village was transferred. This building houses a documentation of the history of the Baptist in Lower Austria. From 1528 Hutterites settled in Liechtenstein possessions in South Moravia and neighboring wine district. After the Battle of White Mountain, the Hutterites were expelled and settled in present-day Slovakia. Descendants still live in brother farms in Canada and the United States. The museum documents the history and culture of the Hutterites and their traces in Lower Austria.

Südmährerhof

In the northwest of the South Moravian Museum village a farm Neudek an der Thaya in 1981 (now a district of Lednice ) reconstructed. The Südmährerhof documented history and culture of German-speaking South Moravian districts once Neubistritz, Zlabings, Znojmo and Mikulov.