Dorfmuseum Hoffeld
Village museum in a half-timbered house in the Eifel showing the hard daily life of rural people in the 19th century; visits by appointment.
Have only individual sections read aloud
About the museum
The Dorfmuseum Hoffeld is located in one of the well-preserved half-timbered houses in the village center, according to regional directories the oldest house in the village. Before the municipality acquired the building in the mid-1980s, a ten-member family had lived there for a long time.
The exhibition is devoted to the living conditions of simple people in the Eifel villages and shows how cramped and arduous the daily life of farming families was in the 19th century. In front of the house stands a fountain built from columns of the nearby Hoffeld basalt quarry.
Highlights
- Half-timbered house in the village center of Hoffeld
- Insight into the cramped living of a farming family
- Everyday life of rural people in the Eifel in the 19th century
- Fountain made of basalt columns in front of the house
Permanent exhibition
- Leben im Eifeldorf – The house shows how simple people lived in the Eifel villages and makes the hard daily life of farmers in the 19th century tangible.
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