Hösseringen Museum Village

The Hösseringen Museum Village is an open-air museum in Suderburg that reconstructs rural life through reassembled timber-framed and farmhouse buildings from different centuries. The structures are furnished and arranged to show how people in the region lived, worked, and organized their daily activities.

The museum was established to preserve threatened historic buildings from the region by relocating them to a single site before they could be demolished. Several of the oldest structures date back to the 16th and 17th centuries and display construction methods typical of the Lüneburg area.

The name Hösseringen comes from the local village where the museum is located, and you can see how rural families actually lived through the furnished rooms and daily objects displayed in each house. Visitors walk through spaces arranged as they would have been, with cooking areas, sleeping quarters, and work zones showing the reality of country life from centuries past.

You can explore the museum on foot by walking between the buildings, but it helps to wear comfortable shoes since the pathways are unpaved and can be slippery depending on the weather. The grounds are relatively flat and straightforward to navigate, with clear paths connecting the different structures.

The museum features a dedicated beekeeping station where you can see how people managed bees using older methods before modern techniques arrived in the region. These traditional practices are sometimes brought to life through demonstrations that show how labor-intensive the work was.