Heeseberg-Museum

About the museum

The Heeseberg Museum is set up on a listed farmstead in Watenstedt, at the Heeseberg in the south of the Helmstedt district. It is run by the Förderkreis Heeseberg-Museum e.V. (support association). Across roughly 1,700 square meters, it displays equipment and documents from farming, crafts, household life and schooling.

The centerpiece is the house built in 1850, which holds historical documents, a permanent archaeological exhibition on the excavations at the Hünenburg, and geological finds from the Heeseberg. The Hünenburg exhibition was set up in summer 2013 by long-time excavation leader Dr. Heske of the University of Göttingen. Upstairs, the museum covers the church of Watenstedt with its old tower clock, village schools in the area, militaria, traditional costumes, and the processing of sugar beets and flax.

The large barn holds carriages, farm equipment, a 1935 Hanomag crawler tractor and a Lanz Bulldog with a hot-bulb engine. Other buildings show the tools of bakers, butchers, wheelwrights and carpenters, a general store fitted with 1950s stock, a laborer's house in the style of the 1930s, a shoemaker's workshop and a working forge.

Highlights

• Archaeological exhibition on the Hünenburg
• Hanomag crawler tractor (1935) and Lanz Bulldog
• General store with 1950s inventory
• Working forge
• Laborer's house in the style of the 1930s

Permanent exhibitions

• Hünenburg-Ausstellung – Permanent archaeological exhibition on the excavations at the Hünenburg, plus geological finds and fossils from the Heeseberg.
• Landwirtschaft, Handwerk und Landleben – Barn with carriages and tractors, baker's, butcher's and wheelwright's tools, general store, laborer's house and forge.

Operated by

Förderkreis Heeseberg-Museum e. V.

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Getting there & parking

The museum is in the center of Watenstedt at Ringstraße 3; signs in the village point the way to the museum yard.

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