Dat ole Huus Heath Museum is a

local history Local history is the study of history in a geographically local context, often concentrating on a relatively small local community. It incorporates cultural and social aspects of history. Local history is not merely national history writ small bu ...

museum in Wilsede in the German state of

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. It was founded in 1907 which makes it one of the oldest

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s in Germany. The name is

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for 'That Ole House'.

Museum

The Nature Conservation Park Society (''Verein Naturschutzpark'' or VNP) together with its foundation, the Lüneburg Heath Nature Conservation Park Foundation (''Stiftung Naturschutzpark Lüneburger Heide'') are the operators of the museum, its contents being supported by the Kiekeberg Open Air Museum (''Freilichtmuseum am Kiekeberg''). Since 2004 the ''Emhoff'' sheep pen has belonged to the museum. This exhibit provides information about the historic forms of farming used by heath farmers around 1850. It shows a typical house inventory and the tools used on a heath farm.

Exhibition

The exhibition provides information about farming on the

Lüneburg Heath Lüneburg Heath (german: Lüneburger Heide) is a large area of heath, geest, and woodland in the northeastern part of the state of Lower Saxony in northern Germany. It forms part of the hinterland for the cities of Hamburg, Hanover and Bremen a ...

around 1850.

History

The house, built in 1742 as a traditional

Low German house The Low German house or ''Fachhallenhaus'' is a type of timber-framed farmhouse found in northern Germany and the easternmost Netherlands, which combines living quarters, byre and barn under one roof. It is built as a large hall with bays on the ...

, is the oldest farmhouse in the Lüneburg Heath Nature Park and typical of the Northern Heath (''Nordheide''). The founder of the local history museum, Bernhard Dageförde, purchase the building in 1907, had it dismantled in Hanstedt and reconstructed in Wilsede as a farmhouse museum. Dageförde furnished the house with numerous artefacts typical of the Lüneburg Heath. Even though the ''Emhoff'' bears a more recent date of construction, researchers believe that ''Dat ole Huus'' actually has a considerably older kitchen area, built around 1540. The museum is affiliated with the larger open-air museum "Freilichtmuseum am Kiekeberg" (near the southern border of Hamburg). Since 2004 a renovated sheep shed on the "Emhoff" farmstead is used for exhibitions.

References

Bibliography

* Ulrich Klages: ''Siedlungen und Baugeschichte''. In: Cordes et al. (Hrsg.): ''Naturschutzgebiet Lüneburger Heide. Geschichte - Ökologie - Naturschutz''. Hauschild, Bremen 1997, . * Verein Naturschutzpark e.V. (Hrsg.): ''Wilsede - ein altes Heidedorf''. Mundschenk, Soltau 1999.

External links

Description of the museum
on the site of the "Verein Naturschutzpark e.V. (VNP)" that runs the museum. (in German)

in German with a picture each of the inside and outside of the building.
Website about the museum
{{Authority control Lüneburg Heath Heidekreis Open-air museums in Germany Museums in Lower Saxony Museums established in 1907 Houses completed in 1742 1907 establishments in Germany