Fränkisches Freilandmuseum Fladungen

Over het museum

The idea of an open-air museum for Lower Franconia arose in 1979; it was driven forward by the mayor of Fladungen, the district administrator of Rhön-Grabfeld and the district council president of Lower Franconia. In 1981 the Lower Franconia district decided to build it in Fladungen, and in 1983 the district, the Rhön-Grabfeld county and the town of Fladungen founded a special-purpose association as its operator. In the following years, land was acquired, the Reßmühle (Reß mill) was restored, and the first buildings from the region were dismantled and rebuilt on the site.

On September 30, 1990, the museum opened with eight accessible buildings. It has grown steadily since then: for its 25th anniversary in 2015 there were 20 buildings, and for its 30th anniversary, 24. In 2017 the cooperage from Sulzthal was added as the first fully inclusively designed museum building, and in 2022/23 the blacksmith's workshop from Waldberg, where courses and demonstrations have been held ever since.

Today, on about twelve hectares, there are roughly 30 farmsteads, workshops and municipal buildings from all over Lower Franconia and the Hessian and Thuringian parts of the Rhön. They show rural living and working from the 17th century to the 1970s, set amid gardens, orchards, fields and pastures with old domestic animal breeds. Since 1996, the Rhön-Zügle museum railway, with a steam or diesel locomotive, has run on selected Sundays and public holidays on the former local railway line between Fladungen and Mellrichstadt.

Hoogtepunten

• Around 30 rebuilt farmsteads, workshops and municipal buildings on twelve hectares
• Rhön-Zügle museum railway between Fladungen and Mellrichstadt
• Inclusively designed cooperage from Sulzthal
• Blacksmith's workshop from Waldberg with demonstrations
• Municipal brewhouse from Alsleben with its own museum beer
• Old domestic animal breeds, farm gardens and orchards

Vaste collectie

• Arbeitstiere – von Ackergäulen und Spannkühen in der Rhön – Exhibition in a former cattle barn about draft animals in agriculture, with media stations on harnessing and the transition to motor power.
• Schäfchen zählen – Der Rhöner Schäfer und seine Tiere – Insight into the work of shepherds and the importance of sheep farming for the cultural landscape of the Rhön.
• Armut, Hunger, Bomben und Vertreibung – Ein Mietshaus auf dem Land 1947–1950 – A rural tenement house tells of everyday life in the postwar years, of hardship, housing shortages and living together with refugees.

Opgericht

1990

Beheerder

Zweckverband Fränkisches Freilandmuseum Fladungen (Bezirk Unterfranken, Landkreis Rhön-Grabfeld, Stadt Fladungen)

Directie

Niklas Hertwig

Toegangsprijzen & kortingen

Gratis toegang: Birthday children have free admission on their birthday.

Tickets online or at the museum ticket desk (cash or EC card). ICOM and DMB members also have free admission. With a regular single ticket to the Rhönmuseum, reduced admission applies in the same calendar year. Tickets for the Rhön-Zügle museum railway are sold separately.

Toegankelijkheid

• Deels rolstoeltoegankelijk
• Lift: geen informatie
• Aangepast toilet
• Gehandicaptenparkeerplaats
• Hulphonden welkom
• Tastmodellen / voelbare objecten
• Rondleidingen in gebarentaal
• Informatie in eenvoudige taal
• Audiodescriptie

The grounds are largely wheelchair-accessible; accessible buildings are marked on the site map. Free loan wheelchair at the ticket desk. Accessible restrooms in the entrance building and in the Aktionsscheune (activity barn). Audio and media guide (Hearonymus app) with tours in German Sign Language, Easy Language (Leichte Sprache) and with audio description; also tactile maps, hands-on stations and tours for people with visual, mobility, hearing or learning impairments. Awarded "Reisen für Alle – Barrierefreiheit geprüft" (Travel for All – accessibility tested) and the "Bayern barrierefrei" seal.

Kinderen & gezin

Erg geschikt voor kinderen & gezinnen

• Gezinsrondleidingen & workshops
• Speurtocht, doeboekje of kinderaudiotour
• Doe- en voelstations
• Verschoonruimte
• Speeltuin / speelhoek
• Kinderfeestjes

Hands-on stations on milling, bridge building and moving houses, historical children's games, a children's playground next to the picnic area and animals in the pastures. In the "Haus zum Anfassen" (hands-on house), Theresia's Quiz leads children from about age 5 through house and farmyard; for groups there are scavenger hunts for ages 6–8 and 8–10. Activity programs and craft workshops for groups, children's birthday parties from age 6. Changing facilities and child toilet seats in the entrance area, free wagons to borrow.

Bereikbaarheid & parkeren

Via the A 7 and A 71; signposted in town as "Freilandmuseum Fladungen." Tour buses: the railway bridge in Stockheim on the B 285 can only be passed up to a height of 3.8 m. Free e-bike charging station in the town center; bicycle racks opposite the entrance. Motorcycle clothing can be locked away in the entrance area.

Service & horeca

• Café
• Restaurant
• Museumwinkel
• Kluisjes
• Wifi

Museum inn "Zum Schwarzen Adler" (an inn dating from 1606) with a beer garden at the entrance, accessible even without an admission ticket (Tue, Wed, Sat, Sun and public holidays 11:00–18:00, Thu 11:00–21:00; as of 09/2026). Brotzeitstübchen (snack parlor) on the grounds (Thu 12:00–17:00, Sat, Sun and public holidays 11:00–17:00). Picnic area at the museum pond. Museum shop in the entrance building with home-brewed beer, fruit brandies and apple juice; Rhöner Bauernladen (farm shop) at the parking lot. Lockers and free Wi-Fi in the entrance area. Dogs on a leash are welcome.

Evenementen & zaalverhuur

• Ruimtes te huur
• Bruiloften / trouwceremonies

Church and civil wedding ceremonies at selected locations in the museum; wedding photo shoots with permission.

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