Slavic Village Passentin (german: Slawendorf Passentin ) is an

archaeological open-air museum An archaeological open-air museum is a non-profit permanent institution with outdoor true-to-scale architectural reconstructions primarily based on archaeological sources. It holds collections of intangible heritage resources and provides an in ...

located in the destination of Passentin in the land of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany. The museum is a research and educational establishment specializing in cultural and rural history. The main purpose of the work is dissemination of cultural and historical knowledge, to encourages the visitors to explore their roots, their own ethnic and

cultural heritage Cultural heritage is the heritage of tangible and intangible heritage assets of a group or society that is inherited from past generations. Not all heritages of past generations are "heritage"; rather, heritage is a product of selection by soci ...

. For a few hours or some days here school classes and families able to live and acted as the

slavs Slavs are the largest European ethnolinguistic group. They speak the various Slavic languages, belonging to the larger Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages. Slavs are geographically distributed throughout northern Eurasia, main ...

in the Early Middle Ages: sleep, prepare food and even weaving, spinning, pottery, carving, forging.

History

The Slavic Village PassentinJ, built 1994–1999 thanks to the engagement of

Dorothee Rätsch Dorothee Rätsch (also spelled Raetsch; born 1940 in Heilsberg, today Lidzbark Warmiński, Poland) is a German sculptor and graphic artist, the daughter of Margarete Neumann, a writer and poet. Biography Up to 1945 Dorothee Rätsch was livi ...

, a local sculptor. In the near, in the area around the Tollensesee lake, probably the location Rethra, the religious center of the West Slavs, and near Passentin during excavations has been found remnants of a Slavic Lowland castle. Therefore, was chosen the place for the Slavic Village here.Overview of the buildings
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Buildings

This Rundling consisting of reconstructions of windowless post in ground huts ore houses based on archaeological sources from the Early Middle Ages. Several smaller and larger single-room houses are situated around a pond. The gatehouse is the only access through the picket fence that surrounds the village. A

long house A longhouse or long house is a type of long, proportionately narrow, single-room building for communal dwelling. It has been built in various parts of the world including Asia, Europe, and North America. Many were built from lumber, timber and o ...

(8th-10th century) serves as a venue for 20-40 people. Construction: Wattle and daub, thatched roof

Workshops

* Cooking house with dome oven, Construction:

Half-timbered Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...

Wooden shingle Wood shingles are thin, tapered pieces of wood primarily used to cover roof shingle, roofs and walls of buildings to protect them from the weather. Historically roof shingle, shingles, also known as shakes, were split from straight grained, kno ...

roofs * Baking house with Masonry oven * Forge with two

anvils An anvil is a metalworking tool consisting of a large block of metal (usually forged or cast steel), with a flattened top surface, upon which another object is struck (or "worked"). Anvils are as massive as practical, because the higher th ...

and two

flues A flue is a Duct (flow), duct, Pipe (fluid conveyance)#Materials, pipe, or opening in a chimney for conveying exhaust gases from a fireplace, Industrial furnace, furnace, Water heating, water heater, boiler, or Electric generator, generator to ...

* Pottery House- drying room for pottery Construction:

Pit-house A pit-house (or ''pit house'', ''pithouse'') is a house built in the ground and used for shelter. Besides providing shelter from the most extreme of weather conditions, these structures may also be used to store food (just like a pantry, a larder ...

, Sod roof * Spinning and weaving house- serves to wool processing, Construction: Log house * Bathhouse, Construction: Log house * Hay hut, Construction: wattle walls (willow), thatched roof * fairytale hut, Construction: Wattle and daub, thatched roof * joinery

Living huts

* Beekeeper hut * Herb Cottage * Shepherd's hut * Hunter's hut * Fisherman's hut * Broomsquire's hut * Medicine hut

Specialized buildings

* Sanitary building, the only modern building * Log house, currently used as an office * Animal stalls- currently unused

References

External links

Website of the Slavic Village

Geschichte leben

wild wurzeln - Verein für ganzheitliche Naturbildung e.V.
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