Altes Haus Greifenstein

About the museum

The Old House in Holzhausen, a district of Greifenstein, is a half-timbered house built around 1750. After the owners died it was to be demolished, but the municipality bought it and handed it over to the village's local heritage and history association.

From autumn 1966, the teacher Heinrich Jung collected old objects throughout the village. Association members restored them and renovated the house themselves, guided by the memories of older villagers. In September 1967 the house was opened to the public.

The kitchen and the good parlor on the ground floor, and the chamber and bedroom upstairs, show how most villagers lived around 1900. It is not a conventional museum: nothing is behind glass, and the objects may be touched. Visitors are mainly school classes.

Highlights

• Half-timbered house from around 1750
• Domestic life around 1900: kitchen, parlor, chamber, bedroom
• Everything may be touched
• Visits with a guided tour

Permanent exhibition

• Wohnkultur um 1900 – Originally furnished village house with kitchen, good parlor, chamber and bedroom, as about 80 percent of the population lived around the turn of the century.

Founded

1967

Operated by

Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Holzhausen

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