What is Hohenfelden known for?

Hohenfelden is known for the Thüringer Freilichtmuseum, Thuringia's largest open-air museum, and for the Stausee Hohenfelden, a reservoir built for recreation between 1966 and 1975.

What is the Thüringer Freilichtmuseum?

Founded in 1979, it gathers more than forty historic buildings on two sites, most moved here from other regions and restored and furnished as they would have been — among them Thuringia's oldest post mill.

Where is Hohenfelden in relation to Weimar?

The reservoir at Hohenfelden lies south-west of Weimar and south-east of Erfurt.

Hohenfelden

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About Hohenfelden

Three hundred and eighty-five people, a reservoir built for recreation in the GDR years, and more than forty relocated historic buildings that make up Thuringia's largest open-air museum.

Sights in Hohenfelden

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Hohenfelden, Weimarer Land
The museum stands in this village, which the municipality's own chronicle dates its founding to 1979.

Hohenfelden in depth

1299, and a parish from 1439

The village is first documented in 1299, through Berthold de Honveld, procurator of the Peterskloster; a parish is first recorded here in 1439. It sits at 328 metres on 8.45 square kilometres of ground, east of the Riechheimer Berg, which rises to 512 metres and can be seen from a long way off. Holiday houses were being built here by entrepreneurs from Erfurt as early as 1924/25 — the leisure business is older than the lake.

The lake, 1966 to 1975

Work on the Stausee Hohenfelden recreation area began in 1966/67, and the reservoir was finished in 1975: 41.66 hectares of water, up to seven metres deep, 1,150 metres long and 370 wide, holding 1.08 million cubic metres. It lies east of the village, south-east of Erfurt and south-west of Weimar, and it is used for what such lakes are used for — swimming, fishing, paddling, sailing, camping.

A village of houses that came from elsewhere, since 1979

The Thüringer Freilichtmuseum was founded in 1979 and calls itself Thuringia's largest open-air museum: more than forty historic buildings on two sites, most of them moved here from other regions, restored and furnished as they would have been. Large farmhouses, a flower-pot pottery, and Thuringia's oldest post mill. The museum's own invitation is to travel through five hundred years of history, which is fair — it is a village assembled out of other villages.

Questions visitors ask

What is Hohenfelden known for?: Hohenfelden is known for the Thüringer Freilichtmuseum, Thuringia's largest open-air museum, and for the Stausee Hohenfelden, a reservoir built for recreation between 1966 and 1975.
What is the Thüringer Freilichtmuseum?: Founded in 1979, it gathers more than forty historic buildings on two sites, most moved here from other regions and restored and furnished as they would have been — among them Thuringia's oldest post mill.
How big is the Stausee Hohenfelden?: 41.66 hectares, up to seven metres deep, 1,150 metres long and 370 wide, holding 1.08 million cubic metres — built between 1966/67 and 1975.
Where is Hohenfelden in relation to Weimar?: The reservoir at Hohenfelden lies south-west of Weimar and south-east of Erfurt.