Bachstraße 93, Museum in Oberdollendorf, Königswinter, Germany
The Brückenhofmuseum occupies the Brückenhof, a former wine estate at Bachstraße 93 in Oberdollendorf, part of Königswinter. The main building, a half-timbered house with a gatehouse, was built between 1681 and 1684. Its permanent exhibition includes a model of the Weilberg for the Heisterbacher Talbahn, stone-mason and quarrying tools, Siebengebirge rocks, a shoemaker's workshop, a historic kitchen, a demonstration half-timbered wall and over 300 group photographs.
The Brückenhof is a former wine estate laid out as a Franconian farmstead with a gatehouse from the mid-17th century; its main building was dendrochronologically dated to 1681–1684 and replaced an earlier structure. It was formerly called Rennenberger Hof after the Rhenish noble family von Rennenberg, which held it until about 1570; only in 2013 did research establish that the two were the same estate. From 1989 the Heimatverein Oberdollendorf und Römlinghoven took over part of the building, renovated it and opened the museum in spring 1991; after renovation work begun in October 2015 it reopened in June 2016.
The museum is run by the Heimatverein Oberdollendorf und Römlinghoven, an association with over 1,100 members. Its temporary exhibitions cover local and regional history and art, with past shows on the Weinblütenfeste and their wine queens, the Heisterbacher Talbahn, and the painter Heinrich Reifferscheid.
The museum is usually open on the first and second Sunday of each month from 2 to 5 pm. It sits at Bachstraße 93 in Oberdollendorf, on the approach path to the Rheinsteig near the Hülle viewpoint and the wine trail to Heisterbach Abbey. The building was closed for renovation from October 2015 and reopened in June 2016.
The farm was long thought to be the Rennenberger Hof, seat of a Rhenish noble family until about 1570, and assumed demolished around 1800. Only in 2013 did a local researcher show that the Brückenhof is that same court, one of seven free farms of the parish of Oberdollendorf.
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