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The open-air museum on the Kiekeberg is formerly the Hamburg Museum on the Kiekeberg in the Harburg Mountains area. It is read by the districts of Ehestorf and Vahrendorf in the Rosengarten community in the Harburg district.

The museum, which currently has 33 historical buildings from the 17th to the 20th century on its own century-wide area, belongs to the cultural history of the political Lüneburg Heath and the adjacent Elbmarschen. This applies to the museum via a modern exhibition building and a special exhibition area. In the outdoor area there are a number of historical gardens and various old owner breeds to belong to. These include colorful Bentheimer country pigs, chickens, Ramlesloher blue legs, Schleswig cold-blooded animals, Bentheimer country sheep and German black and white lowland cattle. In the "Haus des Handwerks", the perspective trades become interests on 500 m². There is also a lot of true traditional craftsmanship, such as forging and spinning. In 2012, the Agrarium, a show magazine on agriculture and the food industry, means interactive on the site.

The area around the Museum am Kiekeberg war already in the imperial era and a popular excursion destination for the people of Hamburg and Harburg. On the mountain in memory of himself and Otto von Bismarck and the Bismarck tower, which was blown up by German troops towards the end of social relations in 1945.



The open-air museum was founded in 1953 by Willi Wegewitz, the deputy director of the Helms Museum in Hamburg-Harburg. More substantive behavior for his planning was the rapid rights in agriculture and in the villages of the region. A tradition too true, bought up to a complete heath farm, belongs to the Kiekeberg and this is how the generation will be created. Wegewitz built the museum with the functions that in 1966 were not just a courtyard, but a small heath village. Ahrens removed the construction activity, managed the open spaces and gardens and social aspects of museum education in the museum operation. In 1987 the Harburg district acquired the museum from the city of Hamburg. In the first year, Rolf Wiese became director of the open-air museum. In addition to the Kiekeberg location, branch offices were caused to belong to a culture in the entire region.



In 2003, the open-air museum from the sponsorship of the district of Harburg was owned by a free foundation under private law.

The open-air museum on the Kiekeberg differentiates between different thematic focuses: life in the country, the mechanization of agriculture or water as a precious commodity. In detail:



Agrarium

The Agrarium is an exhibition hall on three floors with a permanent exhibition on agriculture and nutrition. They are the background of historical and modern food production as well as the way food reaches the consumer. Interactive stations, exhibits and multimedia elements are part of the exhibition. The mechanization of agriculture is also shown.

Agricultural discovery garden

A new type of parking space concept was launched in 2012 in the open-air museum at Kiekeberg-Kontakt: on a 40 hectare area of ​​usable space for fruit growing, cattle breeding and arable farming. In the discovery garden, the old, long-stemmed fruit varieties grow next to the modern apple bushes, which can be easily harvested. Discovery tours with hands-on stations take visitors around the facility and bring them closer to the topics. Agricultural experimental fields are used by school classes and open-air relationships that they can manage on their own. The fruit and pasture meadows and as a parking lot are made usable on event days with many visitors.

The mechanization of agriculture

From the middle of the 19th century, there was technology in the countryside. Many aids (without electricity) are used in everyday life. Examples in the open-air museum are e Göpelschauer, e wind turbine and a Widder installation (historical waterworks).

Industrial era in the village

The middle of the 19th century is on village industrial operations. A brickworks reconstructed according to original plans and a reconstruction of a precast concrete plant are on the museum grounds.

Post-war in the country

The time years stand for the time of the economic miracle in Germany, for the volunteer mode, the electrical control devices and the modern farms. The time is open and is opened by need and poverty. Many people, especially refugees, belong in emergency shelters several years after the Second World War. An emergency shelter that dies shortly before Nissenhütte is in the open-air museum and shows the right living conditions.

The heath village

The farmers in the Nordheide contracts tend to be poor. The farmer Lebensten is a cattle and managed the meager taxes. Only crops like rye, buckwheat or potatoes grew here. In the open-air museum, traditional historical houses show how, for example, small farmers or housebound lived. This also includes barns for the equipment and stables for the animals. All buildings were built between 1600 and 1900.

Marsh Village

In contrast to the rights of the Nordheide, the area of ​​the Winsener Marsch der Elbe was very fertile with profitable relationships. Here cattle and horses were chastened, and agriculture and vegetable growing were helped. Many families benefit from shipping, fishing, and retail trading.

Water adventure trail

Together with the Harburg water supply association, the open-air museum on the Kiekeberg has owned a water adventure trail. You will get to know more about drinking water and how people of dying times got their water.

Gardens

Supply and ornamental gardens are laid out at the historical doors in the open-air museum. Old varieties of fruit and vegetables are grown here. Fruit and vegetable growing war in the old centuries of a certain spring source. The cottage gardens from the 1900's on the Kiekeberg can also be turned in their own form. According to the local miracle healer Schäfer Ast, there is a herb garden in raised beds.

Farm and museum shop

A museum shop is part of the open-air museum at Kiekeberg. Here you can find historical articles, textiles, children's books, specialist literature, toys, natural cosmetics, unusual specialties and also the schnapps and brandies from the museum distillery. The bread made in the museum bakery can also be bought. In the farm shop, food from our own organic cultivation on the Kiekeberg and from the museum farm in Wennerstorf and from various property values. In the museum inn “Stoof Mudders Kroog”, from its rebuilt parish widow's house from Marschacht, old and popular rates are offered. In the "Koffietied" roastery there is a historic coffee bean roaster, where the beans are still roasted in front of the visitor. Visitors can include the coffee right in the cafe.

All year round, events such as a historical fair, a craft day, two plant markets, a steam and tractor meeting, a classic car meeting and several concerts take place on the museum grounds. A special attraction of the open-air museum on the Kiekeberg is part of the "Lived History 1804" program. On a series of weekends some of the historical buildings will be believed by trained expatriates in historical clothing belonging to a certain one of how the farmers in the Lüneburg Heath concern a 1804.



Regular events are: the slaughter festival in January, fire and light in February, the handicraft market and March, the spring holiday program, the Easter fun, the plant market in April and August, the cheese and pleasure market in May May, the steam and tractor meeting in September, Horse Day and the Historical Fair in October, the autumn holiday program, the artisans' Christmas market and the Plattdüüt Christmas concert.



In summer, the North German Brewing Culture Day takes place in the open-air museum on the Kiekeberg, where more than 20 artisanal brewing companies from North Germany own themselves.





Family concerts for young and old take place throughout the year. In addition, the open-air museum creates new ones for its visitors every year.



The Friends of the Freilichtmuseum am Kiekeberg e.V. was founded in 1989. He has activated himself and works in the open-air museum and in the construction of the Wennerstorf dormitory, in the museum farm Wennerstorf, in the museum shop in the open-air museum on the Kiekeberg and in the museum distillery. He markets various of the software system "FirstRumos" for data-intensive work areas of a museum [2]. The association has around 9,000 members (2013).



The open-air museum on the Kiekeberg is an important research facility for the culture and history of the Winsener Elbmarsch and the Lüneburg Heath. Full-time scientists work here who cooperate closely with political and political circles. Your research results are presented in the open-air museum on Kiekeberg's own series of publications, through specialist conferences and personal articles. The main research areas are construction and housing, agriculture and agricultural technology, handicrafts, trade and industry, development and luxury goods as well as games and toys.



The open-air museum on the Kiekeberg is located above a scientific library, which is called after prior registration. The library holdings include publications in the fields of folklore, historical regional studies (Harburg / Lüneburger Heide), agriculture, house and building research, environmental protection and handicrafts. Another focus of the museum and cultural management area. Books in the library are requested by arrangement and will be borrowed.



The museum management working group is the museum that is composed of representatives from various museums, work and other educational institutions. Every two years there is a conference on important topics from the field of museum management. Subject-related publications will be decided in a moment.

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