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 Bispingen is a municipality in the Heidekreis district of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a popular tourist destination with several holiday/theme parks. Its territory also includes the nature preserve of the Lüneburg Heath around the Wilseder ...

in the German state of

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...

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

open-air museum An open-air museum (or open air museum) is a museum that exhibits collections of buildings and artifacts out-of-doors. It is also frequently known as a museum of buildings or a folk museum. Definition Open air is “the unconfined atmosphere� ...

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 The Kiekeberg is, at 127.1 metres above sea level, one of the more prominent hills in the Harburg Hills in north Germany. It is located in the parish of Ehestorf in the municipality of Rosengarten in the district of Harburg in the southern footh ...

''). 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 Lüneburg Heath Nature Park (German: ''Naturpark Lüneburger Heide'') is a nature park, a form of protected environment, located in the Lüneburg Heath in northern Germany. It has an area of . The centre of the nature park is the Lüneburg Heath ...

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 Hanstedt is a municipality in the district of Harburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 35 km south of Hamburg, and 25 km west of Lüneburg. Hanstedt is also the seat of the ''Samtgemeinde A ''Samtgemeinde'' ...

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