Winsen Museum Farm

The museum courtyard Winsen is an open air museum in Winsen (Aller) in Lower Saxony, which was created in 1982. The museum consists of a typical courtyard of the southern Lüneburg Heath, in order to group the more typical regional buildings.

Museum grounds

The museum site is located within the residential area of Winsen. It is surrounded by an extensive, partly with stock of trees terrain with a hill and heather typical appearance.

Museum of the carrier is Winsener home club. eV, which was founded in 1979 by ten people. Currently (2009) belong to the club of about 800 members. The club members have done the construction work on the museum grounds to a large extent in their own work.

Building

All buildings of the museum were translocated to this site. Their formation time is between the middle of the 17th century and the 20th century. The interiors and the tools issued mainly from the 19th century.

Courtyard

Center of the museum is a rural fortification of South Heath, of belonging to six historic buildings. Main building is a 1653 built in Winsen Low German hall house in two- column design. 1980 was removed to its former location and the first building of the museum constructed in 1982 at its new location.

The outbuildings include a barn from 1727 in three column design. A hay barn built in 1840 comes from Hornbostel (municipality Wietze ). Your timber has been previously used in other buildings. The pigsty of 1860 stood on a farmstead in Südwinsen to 1985. A stair storage from the first half of the 18th century includes exhibitions of beekeeping equipment and laundry of linen. The store was moved in 1981 from its location on the military training area of ​​Bergen to here. The back house with the clay oven were reconstructed free after old models. Twice a year, the oven is heated up to bake bread.

Other buildings

On the museum grounds, adjacent to the courtyard, other historic buildings in the region were established. Main building is the 1795 in Buchholz ( Aller) built groode Dat Hus, which was built here in 1991. As the largest building of the museum area it is used for cultural events, such as concerts, recitals, lectures used. Is a ceremonial hall of the church in him. 2005 Kalandhof was built again, standing in Winsen since 1781. The designation is based on the tax liability of the builder against the calendering Brotherhood. Here is now the Museum Café. Other buildings are a 1860 arisen coach house and two other stairs storage. A bee booth is in the region formerly widespread heath beekeeping. There is also an orchard of apple trees in the region.