The Heide Museum in Wilsede Dat ole Huus

translated by Dennis Clarke

Dat ole Huus, a Low German house in Wilsede, one of the oldest open-air museums in Germany; built c. 1540, renovated 1742, moved to Wilsede 1907

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The Heide Museum Dat ole Huus ( Low German for: The Old House) is a museum in Wilsede in Lower Saxony , which was founded 1907th This makes it one of the oldest open-air museums in Germany.

The club Naturschutzpark eV (VNP) with his foundation nature reserve Lueneburg Heath are the operators of the museum, which content from Freilichtmuseum am Kiekeberg supported. Since 2004 the exhibition Sheepfold belongs to the Emhoff to the museum. The exhibition provides information about the historical land management form of Heidenbauer time around 1850. It shows the typical home inventory and equipment of a heathen court.

Built in 1742 and is the oldest farmhouse in the Lüneburg Heath Nature Park and a typical house of Nordheide. The teacher Bernhard Dageförde was 1907 by a farmer used as a residence building Hanstedt by Wilsede translocate . He taught in a one Heidemuseum. Dageförde stocked it with numerous heath typical furnishings.

Although the Emhoff wearing an older construction date, researchers assume that Dat ole Huus a much older Flettbereich having (approximately built in 1540).

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Located in the Lüneburg Heath Nature Park in Wilsede find the Built in 1907, old Heide Museum "Dat ole Huus". Together with the neighboring exhibition Sheepfold on the "Emhoff" is informed here impressively and extensively over the countryside and the rural life to Heide 1850th

Visitors to the Lüneburg Heath Nature Park should definitely also visit the Heidemuseum "Dat ole Huus" in Wilsede. Wilsede is a small community with only 40 residents in the midst of the nature reserve, only by carriage, bicycle, walking distance or horseback from Undeloh. From here you can experience the Lüneburg Heath at its best, especially in August / September, when the purple-colored heather is in full bloom. Most houses in Wilsede are heritage protected and many belong to the club Naturschutzpark eV (VNP).

The Heide Museum "Dat ole Huus" in Wilsede you can visit from May to early October, daily 10:00 to 16:00. In the historical building you get a wonderful insight into the lives of the moorland farmers and the countryside was built around 1900. The Heidemuseum in 1907 by teacher Bernhard Dageförde. Highly recommended is also a tour of the Heidemuseum "Dat ole Huus".

The adjacent exhibition Sheepfold Emhoff shows Exhibitions »Conservation with vision" and "100 Years since the team Conservation Park eV - conservation with personality." A Treppenspeicher on Emhoff hosts an exhibition to Habitat Moor. In a not at all creepy presentation can be found here all of the most diversity of plants and animals in the habitat Moor ... of sundew to Snipe (a kind from the family of Scolopacidae).

Tours of the Heidemuseum can be combined with tours through the exhibits of Emhoffs and through the village Wilsede. To get the best insight into the character of the Lüneburg Heath. Wilsede fascinated than romantic get retarded Heide village with many thatched and mostly listed buildings. From here you can explore the ideal Totengrund and Wilseder Berg (great distance vision!) - Two fascinating landscape points of Lüneburg Heath Nature Park.

Not far from the Heide Museum your gaze will fall on a small wooden building, on an "earth cellar" of Emhoffs. Here, the artist Vladimir Rudolf has designed an exhibition that serves as a place of worship of St. James pilgrimage route in Wilsede. This is part of the 200km long path James Luneburg Heath, leading from Hittfeld to Loccum and provide, among other things by Wilsede about Bad Fallingbostel Hodenhagen. In such a small church acting space you will also find a stamp the Pilgrim passport.