Dorfmuseum Markersdorf

About the museum

The Markersdorf Village Museum lies west of Görlitz on a roughly 250-year-old four-sided farmstead. The farm of a smallholding can be seen with its fully preserved furnishings and is arranged as if the farmer and farmhands had just gone out to the field: the farmhouse, stables, barn and threshing floor, wash house, well house and bakehouse convey the living culture and hard work of country life at the beginning of the 20th century.

The museum includes a farm and herb garden with almost forgotten vegetable varieties, an orchard meadow with regional apple varieties, and farm animals. In a relocated retirement cottage, a village school from around 1900 has been set up, where visitors can experience a lesson as in their great-grandparents' day.

The museum belonged to the Silesian-Upper Lusatian Museum Association. Its focus is on the lively presentation of customs and agricultural work through the year, from flail threshing in winter to the slaughter feast in late autumn. For school classes and children's groups there are hands-on projects, such as washing laundry as 100 years ago or the journey from grain to bread.

Highlights

• Fully furnished four-sided farmstead of a smallholding
• Old village school from around 1900
• Farm and herb garden with old vegetable varieties
• Farm animals and orchard meadow
• Customs events from flail threshing to the slaughter feast

Permanent exhibition

• Bäuerliches Leben vor 100 Jahren – The farmhouse, stable, wash house, threshing floor, well house and bakehouse as well as the gardens of the four-sided farmstead show the everyday life and self-sufficiency of a smallholder family; also the furnished old village school.

Admission & discounts

Accessibility

The museum hasn’t published any information on this.

Kids & families

Great for kids & families

• Family tours & workshops
• Hands-on stations
• Kids’ birthday parties

Hands-on projects for children aged about 4 to 6 and up, e.g. washing laundry as in the old days or “Being a Miller for a Day”; farm animals and a lesson in the old village school.

Getting there & parking

About six kilometres west of Görlitz on the B 6.

Amenities & dining

The museum hasn’t published any information on this.

Events & venue rental

• Spaces for rent
• Private parties
• Corporate events

Up to 30 guests.

Celebrations on the farm with an individual programme, e.g. company or family events; the ground floor of the old school can be rented for smaller celebrations of up to 30 people. At children's birthday parties, there can be baking or crafts.

Plan your visit