# Dat ole Huus

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This article is about the museum in Lower Saxony. For the one in Schleswig-Holstein, see [Dat ole Hus](/source/Dat_ole_Hus).

**Dat ole Huus** Heath Museum is a [local history](/source/Local_history) museum in [Wilsede](/source/Wilsede) in the German state of [Lower Saxony](/source/Lower_Saxony). It was founded in 1907 which makes it one of the oldest [open-air museums](/source/Open-air_museum) in Germany. The name is [Low German](/source/Low_German) for 'That Ole House'.

## Museum

The Nature Conservation Park Society (*Verein Naturschutzpark* or VNP) together with its foundation, the Lüneburg Heath Nature Conservation Park Foundation (*Stiftung Naturschutzpark Lüneburger Heide*) are the operators of the museum, its contents being supported by the Kiekeberg Open Air Museum (*Freilichtmuseum am [Kiekeberg](/source/Kiekeberg)*). Since 2004 the *Emhoff* sheep pen has belonged to the museum. This exhibit provides information about the historic forms of farming used by heath farmers around 1850. It shows a typical house inventory and the tools used on a heath farm.

## Exhibition

The exhibition provides information about farming on the [Lüneburg Heath](/source/L%C3%BCneburg_Heath) around 1850.

## History

The house, built in 1742 as a traditional [Low German house](/source/Low_German_house), is the oldest farmhouse in the [Lüneburg Heath Nature Park](/source/L%C3%BCneburg_Heath_Nature_Park) and typical of the Northern Heath (*Nordheide*). The founder of the local history museum, Bernhard Dageförde, purchase the building in 1907, had it dismantled in [Hanstedt](/source/Hanstedt) and reconstructed in Wilsede as a farmhouse museum. Dageförde furnished the house with numerous artefacts typical of the Lüneburg Heath.[1][2]

Even though the *Emhoff* bears a more recent date of construction, researchers believe that *Dat ole Huus* actually has a considerably older kitchen area, built around 1540.[3]

The museum is affiliated with the larger open-air museum "Freilichtmuseum am Kiekeberg" (near the southern border of Hamburg). Since 2004 a renovated sheep shed on the "Emhoff" farmstead is used for exhibitions.

## References

1. Bernhard Dageförde (1929), ["Die Geschichte des Heidemuseums in Wilsede. Von seinem Gründer Bernhard Dageförde"](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bernhard_Dageförde_Geschichte_des_Heidemuseums_in_Wilsede.pdf) (in German), *Leben und Treiben Auf dem Alten Bauernhofe (1780–1880)*, Soltau: Mundschenk

1. Verein Naturschutzpark (ed.) (1999), "Wilsede – ein altes Heidedorf." (in German), Soltau: Mundschenk, p. 15

1. Ulrich Klages (1997), "Siedlungen und Baugeschichte" (in German), *Naturschutzgebiet Lüneburger Heide. Geschichte – Ökologie – Naturschutz*, Cordes (ed.), Bremen: Hauschild, p. 79, ISBN 3-931785-36-X

## Bibliography

- Ulrich Klages: *Siedlungen und Baugeschichte*. In: Cordes et al. (Hrsg.): *Naturschutzgebiet Lüneburger Heide. Geschichte - Ökologie - Naturschutz*. Hauschild, Bremen 1997, ISBN 3-931785-36-X.
- Verein Naturschutzpark e.V. (Hrsg.): *Wilsede - ein altes Heidedorf*. Mundschenk, Soltau 1999.

## External links

- [Description of the museum](http://www.verein-naturschutzpark.de/heidemuseum-wilsede.htm) on the site of the "Verein Naturschutzpark e.V. (VNP)" that runs the museum. (in German)
- [Short description](https://web.archive.org/web/20100111081055/http://bispingen.de/pages-urlaub/heidemuseum-wilsede.htm) in German with a picture each of the inside and outside of the building.
- [Website about the museum](http://www.natur-erleben.niedersachsen.de/suche/naturerleben-4510-900000003.php)

[Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20091119225048/http://www.natur-erleben.niedersachsen.de/suche/naturerleben-4510-900000003.php) 2009-11-19 at the Wayback Machine

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