Ebergötzen
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The Wilhelm Busch Mill as a memorial place with mill museum presents an instructive slice of history on the life and work of Wilhelm Busch and a still operational ancient milling system. Custom-guided tours for all age groups make a visit to the mill an unforgettable experience. The European Bread Museum in Ebergötzen is a specialist museum that houses the collection "From grain to bread" covering 8,000 years of history and agricultural development, grain processing and bread making. The assembled objects on exhibit start with the first farmers, the Linear Pottery culture from around 5,500 B.C. (clay cupola furnace) through the Bronze and Iron Age, the Middle Ages and finally modern times.
Enchanting Places:
These days, Wilhelm Busch's ‘old rumple mill' welcomes over 20,000 visitors of all ages per year for guided tours. In addition to the rooms showing Busch's life and works, visitors get a vivid impression of the miller's life in those small and confined rooms. The part of the tour dealing with the history of the miller trade gets the most enthusiastic response. During the walkabout, the water rushing behind the house is led to the mill wheel and the ‘rumpumpling' mill stone grinds the grain. The visitors gain insight into a trade that has long become obsolete.
The European Bread Museum site is located in a historical park and offers a grain garden, historic baking ovens, a post mill and a watermill and provides vivid insights into the history of bread making. (Phone +49 (0)55 07 - 99 94 98; www.brotmuseum.de)
Phone: 05507/7181
Fax: 05507 964668
eMail: wilhelm-busch-wassermuehle@t-online.de
www.wilhelm-busch-muehle.de
