Date(s): 2007. Photos by Aymar. 1 - 22 of 22 Total. 2606 Visits.
1 town museum
2 town museum, staircase wedge shaped steps (some museum parts are off limits to rollator visitors)
3 ye olde schoolroom Pithy aphorism in the Poor Richard's Almanack tradition (roughly: 'morning hour gold in mouth' and a disjunctive 'choose the right one'. Headline: 'School'). The senior museum visitors did respond well to the Schütterlin spelling challenge. Emphasis on vocal spelling.
4 ye olde schoolroom monkish writing desk with inclined table top and ink well sink.
5 ye olde schoolroom Genuine leather satchel. Some shoemaker repairs.
6 ye olde schoolroom still life with commercial logo
7 ye olde schoolroom Pre digital writing utensils. You have to smoke a lot of Cuban cigars to equip a whole schoolhouse with an adequate number of cigar boxes. The small 'Lebewohl' box looks snuff related but was actually made for band-aids. Adaptive reuses, you have to start somewhere.
8 ye olde schoolroom The always popular math teaching aids. Good for hours of apple pushing fun. As an aside, you have to introduce the concept of a multiplier to explain even basic multiplications. In full: Separation of the operation from the unit substance on which the operation is executed. Apples times apples simply makes no sense. (Dali angle maybe excepted.)
9 ye olde schoolroom Wash stand with pitcher. The towel does not belong in the bowl.
10 ye olde schoolroom Checkered heavy duty drill towel with red officer stripe.
11 ye olde schoolroom Instructions in the higher musical arts. Certainly challenging.
12 ye olde schoolroom The top secret code sheets. Do like the geometric instructions (exact angle for cursive writing). We are nothing but not orderly. Age old prescription proverb. Overall classification: Sütterlin is no genuine alphabet but simply a codified case of monkish scrawl. Transmogrified Latin that is. Certainly nothing on Ogham or Futhark level. (Creation of an alphabet by external stimulation should cover it. We all go through that phase.) One minor correction: Sütterlin was already phased out by 1944. Official verdict: Detrimental to the all out war effort. The Thurn & Taxis side (mailmen) was always opposed for obvious reasons. Sütterlin survived longest in grocery shops.
13 ye olde bedroom This room is somewhat over supplied with sewing machines. The monogram of the rightful occupant is stitched into the top pillow case.
14 ye olde bedroom The hot water bottle comes with an intriguing recess. Could a glass of gargle water be inserted?
15 ye olde bedroom The room has a cleared visitor's corner. The rest is barred.
16 ye olde bedroom This sewing machine was originally mounted on a sewing table. Possibly a foldaway version. Some pivot holes in front. I suspect that is was foot pedal powered, the hand crank just a back up.
17 ye olde bedroom The neatly labeled linen cupboard. The top shelf did hold bridal head gear.
18 carpenter-workshop
19 loom A loom is very similar to a great piano (Steinway et al). Selfsame kind of click-clack. Main difference, the strings are called warps in this case and are always struck in exclusive groups (food pedal aided). - Kay's flying shuttle is not implemented. Will give this one an 'F' in industrial espionage. Attic location somewhat exceptional, particularly if flax fiber was worked.
