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🧵 More sights of this room and its history. It shows rests of the bailiwick of the Fleckenstein family. They lost their bailiwick to the future #Swedish king in 1650 (yes, we then were Swedish!). The farm was destroyed during the Thirty Years' War and migrants were sought to rebuild it to its present state. The family came from Bohemia.

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Another perspective on the blackened plaster showing 2 loops. (descrition in post 1).

Like an abstract landscape painting: white mortar adjoins an ochre-coloured wall stone, which shows dark, semi-circular lines.

Above the lintel, the ceiling with the loops, which is yellowed white here. A chaos of wooden beams is filled with plastered bricks, on top of which runs a cable that was forgotten at some point. (Of course, nowadays all our important cables are hidden).

The wall made of natural stones, higher above the table of post 1. A very small slit-sized window shows that this farm was used as a miniature fortress. Near our museum there is another fortification belonging to the Counts of Fleckenstein. We were therefore able to date this building to the same period.

🧵 I promised you photos of what the museum guide discovers when she has to escape the crowds, goes into empty rooms and looks at unusual places. Descriptions: alt text. A small thread.

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An old wooden table with inscriptions of 1813 with an ancient petroleum lamp in front of a wall made of large rough-hewn natural stones. Part of our farm museum, which used to belong to the outbuildings.

The ceiling has wooden beams running through it in parallels. It is plastered in between. The plaster is blackened, so you can clearly see the loop-like movements with which it was applied and decorated. It has flaked off in one place and the substructure is exposed. Unrestored original material. Although I've been working here for years, this is the first time I've looked at the top! Nobody does, because the exhibits attract attention.

Lime-washed ceiling covered with wooden slats between the beams. Some of the wood is very weathered or cracked, which creates an interesting texture.

The blackened plaster zoomed in: You can clearly see the loops of a scraper and other tool marks. It looks like mysterious writing from the past.

Do you know why #museums in many countries are closed on Mondays?

Sunday work can tire you out so much that you serve yourself coffee and an empty plate for breakfast.

Imagine if we were open on Mondays and you could hear a hearty snore in the exhibition! 😴 💤 (more in alt text)
BTW despite "don't touch" signs, we once found a child sleeping in one of the beds. The parents had fun in the cafeteria.

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An oval wooden baby cradle with white covering and a doll in front of a colourfully painted cupboard. The cupboard shows scenes of country life during the four seasons. The photo is poorly exposed and blurred because the room is darkened. We can't wake up the doll and the tired museum ghosts!

An old Alsatian four-poster bed with wooden canopy and carving with a shelf for a book at the headboard. The wood structure is an imitation potato print. This was used to make cheap wood appear valuable. Colourful peasant paintings decorate the side. The bedding is covered with traditional blue kelsch, a chequered linen that used to be dyed with plants from the garden. The canopy was made of wood because people slept in unheated rooms. Therefore, pieces of plaster often fell from the ceiling. The wood protected the sleepers and curtains kept the warmth of the hot water bottles in bed for longer.
The chamber pot beside or under the bed was a help, too. These families had only one extern outhouse (pit latrine) in the yard. Imagine the long walk outside in winter!

Simple Alsatian bed with blue chequered Kelsch cover in an alcove, surrounded by religious pictures. The statue of the Virgin Mary on the bedside table was as important as the hot water bottle, which was often made from empty shell casings during the First World War.
The hand-embroidered wall hanging was not only a religious and folk-magical protection, it also insulated the cold walls. Alcoves were extensions of the only heated parlour. The curtains remained open during the day. When people went to bed, they closed them.

Countdown: our Alsatian #museum and #culturalHeritage centre reopens on 2 Febr. We are waiting so much for the end of the winter break!

Some news for me: I want to re-join as a #museumGuide and learn something new: As a student, I'll sit in a school class. My colleague teaches how to make butter by hand. I'll speak German with my French-speaking colleague, so the #bilingual class will have fun to exercise German. Well, you'll get new museum stories soon. 😊

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