Finsterau Open-Air Museum

Natural stone walls, squared timber block construction and overlapping shingle roofs – forest farmstead

As the last of the Danzer siblings died in 1972, the farmstead with its old buildings had become useless and threatened to fall into ruin. That is why the byre-dwelling (farmhouse in which the living quarters are combined with livestock and and/or granary under the same roof) and granary were purchased for the open-air museum in 1974. The old buildings were carefully dismantled and reconstructed on the museum grounds. The “new” Kapplhof in Finsterau was opened in 1980.

As an open, three-sided farmstead, as frequently occurred in the inner Bavarian Forest region, the byre-dwelling and the granary of the old Kapplhof as well as a matching barn are grouped with each other. All three buildings support a flatly sloped, overlapping shingle roof. A garden with simple vegetables, a few currant bushes and some flowers is part of the farmstead.

Apple trees line the access to the farmstead, and a walnut tree adorns the middle of the farmstead. There is a doghouse, an outhouse and a masonry baking oven.

The granary is an extremely carefully connected, elevated block construction. A graceful chicken coop and the building inscription 1712 are noteworthy.
The year 1816 is written on a central pillar in the barn.

Byre-dwelling from Trautmannsried, municipality of Drachselsried, Regen administrative district: built in 1835, alterations in the early 20th century – barn from Reichenberg, Freyung-Grafenau administrative district: boarded wood frame construction with reconstructed overlapping shingle roof, sheep pen made of rubble masonry with vaulted roof – outside on the barn is a cross with carved crucifix from Perlesöd

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