Museum Tropfhaus Sassanfahrt

About the museum

Until 1784, Sassanfahrt consisted of only a few farms and an estate. The new lord of the manor, Baron Julius Heinrich von Soden, then deliberately recruited new residents and had about one hundred very small houses built for them. Where rainwater dripped from the roof, the plot ended – hence the name "Tropfhäuser" (drip houses). They measured only about 35 square meters on average.

The residents lived mainly from home-based work, above all as basket weavers. Because there was hardly any land for farming and the goods had to be sold by peddling, many families became impoverished; Sassanfahrt's poverty was widely known in the 19th century.

The museum occupies one of the few unaltered surviving drop houses and is considered the smallest open-air museum in Bavaria. It shows how up to ten people lived and worked in the tightest of spaces. It is run by the Verein Kunst- und Kulturbühne Hirschaid (association).

Highlights

• Preserved drop house from about 1790
• Living and working on about 35 square meters
• History of the basket weavers of Sassanfahrt
• One of the smallest open-air museums in Bavaria

Permanent exhibition

• Leben im Tropfhaus – A look at how the Sassanfahrt families lived and worked in the tightest of spaces.

Operated by

Kunst- und Kulturbühne Hirschaid e. V.

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