The working craftspeople
A baker, blacksmith and carpenter at work.
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Both are in the Taunus and could just about be done in one day, but they are entirely different: the Saalburg is a reconstructed Roman fort explaining the Roman frontier, while Hessenpark is an open-air museum of German rural life across five centuries. With children Hessenpark clearly works better, being alive with animals and workshops. For anyone interested in Roman history, the Saalburg.
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Hessenpark is an open-air museum of sixty-five hectares in the Taunus hills north of Frankfurt, holding over a hundred historic buildings from across the state of Hesse โ half-timbered houses, churches, mills, workshops, schools and a railway station, dismantled from their original sites, moved and rebuilt here. The principle is rescue: these are buildings that would have been demolished where they stood, through development or decay, and were moved rather than lost. The oldest date from the fifteenth century. They are arranged in small villages by the different regions of Hesse, so you walk between contrasting regional building traditions on one site. The life in it is not a static display: costumed craftspeople genuinely work โ a baker, carpenter, blacksmith and potter โ and farm animals of old endangered breeds are kept for conservation, with fields worked by traditional methods. A visit takes at least half a day, the grounds are large and there is a lot of walking.
A baker, blacksmith and carpenter at work.
Endangered farm animals kept for conservation.
Laubweg 5, 61267 Neu-Anspach