During the opening hours of the museum, the train stop „Gutach Freilichtmuseum“ has hourly train connections via the Ortenau S-Bahn. The big adventure playground and a forest maze invite them to explore while wood games and toys await them in the "Menne-Tenne" at Falkenhof.įreilichtmuseum Vogtsbauernhof has its own train stop in front of the museum entrance. Wherever museum mascot Menne appears, the little museum guests can participate. The open-air museum offers many activities for families with children. In daily rotation, you can watch at least one of them: broom-maker, spinner, weaver, blacksmith, distiller and many more. A wide variety of events ensure an exciting museum visit: cooking demonstrations in the black kitchen, daily mill demonstrations, a museum workshop for families and many event highlights take place throughout the season.ĭuring the season, numerous craftsmen show traditional craftsmanship on the museum grounds. The country house, built from sandstone, is over 600 years old and the oldest and first former mansion in an open-air museum in Baden-Württemberg as well as one of the oldest of all buildings in a German open-air museum.īut one who only expects old houses at Freilichtmuseum Vogtsbauernhof, will be downright astonished: animals of all types can be found in the stables, sheep and goats frolic about in the pastures, in the black kitchens you can still smell a hint of the last fire's smoke. Various outbuildings from all parts of the Black Forest such as mills, sawmills and chapels round off the broad and realistic impression.īeginning with the 2018 season, the „Schlössle von Effringen“ from Wildberg in the county of Calw represents the Northern Black Forest. Taxi from Villingen-Schwenningen to Black Forest Open Air Museum. Two other operators also service this route. Tickets cost 9 - 13 and the journey takes 46 min. Originally founded as a museum of Black Forest architecture about 50 years ago, the Open Air Museum Vogtsbauernhof (German: Freilichtmuseum Vogtsbauernhof) in Gutach provides insights into how people lived and worked in the Black Forest.Ī tour of the museum leads you through the entire region: Typical houses from the Hotzenwald, the Dreisam valley or Schauinsland, a day labourer's home from Oberprechtal, a "Heidenhaus" from Furtwangen as well as farmhouses from the Gutach and Kinzig valley can be explored. Deutsche Bahn Regional operates a train from Villingen to Hausach Bahnhof hourly. Futhermore, the Christmas Market is framed by concerts, programs for children and lectures/readings.More than 600 years of Black Forest culture Each winter, at the third advent weekend, there is a huge Christmas market on the museum’s ground where various craftsmen offer handmade products and regional specialities. That one farmstead is now accompanied by 5 other farmhouses from different regions in the Black Forest, as well as a day laborer's cottage and 15 additional. Visitors will find out how people lived and worked in Black Forest farmhouses during the last 400 years. In the Black Forest Open Air Museum Vogtsbauernhof the Black Forest culture and history come to life.
Vogtsbauernhof was founded about 50 years ago with the restoration of a farmstead there. Schwarzwlder Freilichtmuseum Vogtsbauernhof, direkt an der B33 gelegen, 77793 Gutach (Schwarzwaldbahn) Display on Map.
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Additionally, visitors are invited to the numerous traditional events ranging from the special day for traditional costumes to the “Schlachtfest” (traditional end-of-season feast), plus every year a new special exhibition on cultural history in the Black Forest. From one craft to many, as my next Black Forest stop was at the open-air museum Vogtsbauernhof.
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The museum presents the many different faces of life in the Black Forest: its architecture, traditions, customs and trades, and the way people lived and farmed throughout the ages.įounded as a museum of architecture over 40 years ago, today visiting the “Vogtsbauernhof Museum” also means to experience living history directly: throughout the whole season the visitors find traditional breeds of domestic animals in stables or out at feed, smell the smoke in old “Black Kitchens”, witness old handcrafts and mills in action, participate in free guided tours and take part in one of the many hands-on activities. As well as six fully-furnished farmhouses from different parts of the Black Forest, the visitors will find a labourer’s cottage and about 15 outbuildings, such as mills, sawmills, storehouses, a distillery and a chapel, fields, kitchen gardens and a herb garden. Visitors will find out how people lived and worked in Black Forest farmhouses during the last 400 years. Schwarzwlder Freilichtmuseum Vogtsbauernhof is an open air museum with historic farm buildings that have been moved there from all over the Black Forest, as.
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