Finsterau Open-Air Museum
The Sachl from Rumpenstadl
Formerly a small farmstead, lastly a squalid little house
In 1848 there was a revolution in Germany, while citizens and workers revolted all over Europe. Renovations were performed on a small farmstead in the southern Bavarian Forest.
The bright parlour with the black wooden ceiling is dated by the engraved year 1848. The block walls were already old at that time, but the windows were enlarged so that more sunlight could enter into the parlour. Presumably the masonry part of the ground floor was made at this time and the practical tiled stove with seat was built.
Small rooms were separated from the large parlour later. All of these alterations, repairs and changes in use have left their marks behind, on which we can read the history of the house.
The Sachl was located near the market town Röhrnbach. It once belonged to a small farmstead. We do not know why the farmer “broke up” his meadows and fields piece by piece.
In 1914, only the byre-dwelling and a few fields and pieces of meadow remained, which the young Graf family bought. Since a barn was no longer part of the property, the new owner added a threshing floor to his house. He made the roof steeper so that more storage space for hay was created. The configuration of the house recounts the bitter fate of the last resident, Karolina Graf.
Built presumably in 1766, alterations in 1848 and 1914 – accurate survey of deformation and removal in 1980/81, reconstructed from 1982 to 1984 – original furnishings according to the inventory from 1978
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