A special museum all about the noble vegetable - from cultivation to consumption.
Everyone is talking about Nienburg asparagus. Where better to find out more about this noble vegetable than at the Lower Saxony Asparagus Museum? The asparagus museum is housed in a 300-year-old Low German hall house in the museum's Biedermeier garden, which originally served as a farmhouse in Marklohe, on the left bank of the Weser. Using photos as well as original harvesting machines and asparagus knives, the museum illustrates the laborious work involved in growing, cultivating and growing the plant with its many long roots, processing, preserving, marketing and selling it.
One chapter is dedicated to the topic of seasonal work, which has always been closely linked to asparagus cultivation. In the past, relatives and neighbors helped out, but during the Second World War, prisoners of war also had to cut spears. After 1945, the harvest workers first came from the Mediterranean countries and later from Poland.
The focus is on the valuable Burgdorf asparagus collection of the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung with special tableware and cutlery. It displays tableware from five centuries. On the first floor, there is also an asparagus table with touch displays that guests can use to customize their asparagus table. The upper floor is for younger visitors. A tractor with a computer screen awaits them here. The children can create a virtual asparagus plantation and cut asparagus. The rabbit Mio is also there as an identification figure.
Large-scale equipment such as a deep plow, a ridge scraper, the first asparagus peeling machine and a small asparagus field are presented in the outdoor area. One highlight is the largest asparagus sculpture in the world.