Museum Lindwurm, Local museum in Stein am Rhein, Switzerland
Museum Lindwurm fills the house named Lindwurm, whose ceiling beams were felled in 1278/1279 and whose classical facade dates from 1819/1820. Its 1500 m² show bourgeois living in the front house and farm work in the rear building, arranged as a slice of life around 1850. Rooms include a laundry, a salon, a children's room, a barn and a threshing floor.
The collection focuses on living conditions around 1850, when electricity, heating, and running water did not exist. The house preserves a snapshot of that era and how daily life transformed afterward.
The painter Hermann Knecht, born in Stein am Rhein, has his own room on the second floor, showing 35 of his works. The house also keeps the Gnehm family rooms, since Robert Gnehm bought the Lindwurm around 1900 and his daughter Marie, a trained doctor, left it to her cousins Jakob and Emma Windler.
The museum is open from March through October and is best explored on foot, as the rooms connect via stairs. It helps to allow enough time to see all floors and different areas thoroughly.
The cellar door bears the year 1571, but the oak beams above it were felled in 1278/1279, as dendrochronology showed. The same dating appears in the laundry room ceiling. The house name Lindwurm is an old word for dragon, given before street numbers existed.
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