Rundlingsmuseum Wendland

About the museum

The Rundlingsmuseum Wendland is located in Lübeln, one of the best-preserved Rundling villages in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district. Instead of a newly built museum village, the district bought a historic farmstead in 1972; in 1976 the Heimathaus, a three-post house from 1733, opened there as the core of the museum.

In the following decades the grounds were expanded with a bakehouse, flax kiln, carriage shed, and further buildings moved from the region, including the house of the peasant chronicler Johann Parum Schultze, a smithy, a drive-through barn from 1852, and a wheelwright's workshop. After a drop in visitors following the opening of the border in 1989, event days, exhibitions, and museum education revived the museum; in 2013 a fruit barn was added at the orchard meadow.

Today the museum shows how the round village form came about and how the rural population of the Wendland lived, spoke, and dressed. Permanent exhibitions are devoted to the Rundlings, the chronicle of Parum Schultze, the flax and linen trade, and the colorful Wendland costumes. In the pottery, smithy, bakehouse, and wheelwright's workshop, old crafts are demonstrated on event days.

Highlights

• Museum farmstead in an originally preserved Rundling village
• Heimathaus from 1733 with a registry office wedding room
• Extensive collection of Wendland costumes
• Demonstrations in the smithy, pottery, bakehouse, and wheelwright's workshop
• Farm garden, orchard meadow, and barefoot Rundling trail
• Audio guide in four languages including Low German

Permanent exhibitions

• Rundlingsausstellung – In the drive-through barn from 1852, visitors learn how the round villages of the Wendland came about and how they have developed with their hall houses to this day.
• Wendländische Trachten – The costume house, a former stable from 1887, shows the colorful festive clothing of the farm women in the Wendland.
• Leben im Wendland vor 300 Jahren – The house of the peasant chronicler Johann Parum Schultze is about the everyday life, language, and faith of the rural population around 1700.

Founded

1976

Operated by

Landkreis Lüchow-Dannenberg

Director

Sarah Kreiseler

Admission & discounts

Audio guide included in admission.

Accessibility

• Partially wheelchair accessible
• Elevator: no information
• Accessible restroom
• Accessible parking: no information
• Service dogs welcome
• Tactile models & exhibits: no information
• Sign language tours: no information
• Easy-to-read materials: no information
• Audio description: no information

Grounds mostly level, with minor obstacles for wheelchair users; wheelchair-accessible restroom. Free hand carts (Bollerwagen) to borrow. Dogs on a leash welcome.

Kids & families

Great for kids & families

• Family tours & workshops
• Hands-on stations
• Baby changing facilities

Children's tours with junior guides for children aged 7 and up, usually on the first Sunday of the month at 11:00, more often during school holidays, with old games such as sack races and stilt walking. In the children's activity house, hobby horses, wooden hoops, and stilts await; also a barefoot Rundling trail and demonstration garden. Balance bikes and scooters to borrow.

Getting there & parking

About one kilometer off the B493 between Lüchow and Küsten. Easily reached by bike (Rundling tour); e-bike charging during opening hours, bike racks at the building.

Amenities & dining

• Café: not available
• Restaurant: not available
• Museum shop

Museum shop in the foyer with crafts, regional products, and information material; hot and cold drinks in the foyer. Pottery with a workshop shop. Picnic areas on the grounds, free umbrellas.

Events & venue rental

• Spaces for rent
• Corporate events
• Weddings / ceremonies

Up to 50 guests.

Large seminar room (up to 40 people) and small meeting room (up to 15) in the entrance building, without catering. Civil wedding ceremonies in the Heimathaus: Dönz up to 14, Groot Deel up to 50 people; church wedding in the Lübeln Chapel on request.

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