Bauernmuseum Gundersdorf
St. Stefan ob Stainz
This museum preserves a piece of West Styrian peasant history and provides insight into the world of agriculture from 1850 to 1970!
What can become of a cow barn when no cows are being milked there anymore? A lot! For example, a museum with agricultural tools, implements, and old machines. A place of collector's passion, brought to life by Adolf "Adi" Strohmeier.
You are transported to times when there was neither electricity nor tractors. Times when oxen were still driven over the fields by hand. When flax was harvested, processed, and woven into coarse linen right on the farm.
From 1962 until summer 2009, Adi and his wife Anni managed the farm and raised five children. For decades, the barn was home to well-behaved Fleckvieh cows, calves, and bulls.
After the dairy farming was dissolved, Adi collected many large and small devices from the farm, the neighborhood, and other farms in this barn. Exhibits that today seem as exotic as a television set did in 1960 – 101 exhibits in total – ranging from a Hoazlbock, pressing baskets (Kanl), plows, "Rauchkatz," threshing machines, Droad mills, feed chopping machines, canal rattlers, horse and ox pullers, saws, wood saws, lard buckets, "Drietl," "Wog," lentil combs, toilet rods, Boandreschl, Taufn-Hobln, to the Breinwurscht spritzn, bedpan, flails, chicken ladders, hog wogs, .... and Adi proudly demonstrates threshing with an original threshing machine powered by a diesel engine.
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Please register in advance.
Prices on request.
Contact
Franz Strohmeier
Gundersdorf 64
8511 St. Stefan ob Stainz