The Hots' Barn @museum.de

M: The Hots' barn is the latest addition to the Open Air Museum. It's been in place since 2003.

F: That was preceded by a decades-long search for a suitable location. Finally, an agreement was reached with the authorities responsible for our national heritage, and this site was chosen, though it was still occupied by the sheepfold at the time.

M: In a risky relocation process, the sheepfold had to be moved a few metres further west before the barn could be built on this site. It had been acquired in Aschhausen in the late 1970s, dismantled and professionally stored. Now the frame was re-erected, the old bricks sandblasted and skilfully reinserted. Only the thatched roof had to be completely replaced.

F: Barns of such an impressive size only existed on really large farms. At ground level, it housed vehicles, machinery and tools. Grain, hay and straw were stored in the loft.