Heimatmuseum - Alte Schmiede mit Hessenstube

About the museum

The Heimatmuseum Hessenstube is located in Altenritte, a district of Baunatal, in the residence above the old forge at Ritterstraße 1. It shows the living and working world of people in the farming and craft villages of the Baunatal area from the second half of the 19th century to the 1930s, mainly through everyday objects of small farming and rural laboring families.

On the upper floor, a bedroom, a kitchen and a hall convey the housing conditions of the time. In the basement, the forge is set up with old machines and tools as an example of rural crafts; a shoemaker's workshop as well as a joiner's and turner's workshop complete the picture. A weaving room with a hand loom and equipment for flax processing also belongs to the museum.

Highlights

• Bedroom, kitchen and hall of the 19th century
• Forge with old machines and tools
• Shoemaker's and joiner's workshops
• Weaving room with hand loom

Permanent exhibitions

• Hessenstube – Wohnen im Dorf – Bedroom, kitchen and hall show how small farmers and farm laborers lived in the 19th century.
• Alte Schmiede und Dorfhandwerk – The forge in the basement, the shoemaker's, joiner's and turner's workshops, and the weaving room show rural crafts before industrialization.

Operated by

Stadt Baunatal (Stadtarchiv)

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