Ötztaler
Heimat- und Freilichtmuseum Längenfeld/Lehn
The fading rural world of the Oetz Valley is presented at the open
air museum in Lehn near Laengenfeld.
The Museum opened to public in 1975 and is nowadays totally integrated
into the village of Lehn, consisting of a dwelling house including
a stall and a barn, storage attic, baking oven and flax field. The
latter presents a real rarity in a valley which inhabitants cultivated
for decades the flax with great economic success.
Only a few steps upwards the Lehnbach brook a small peasant`s house
(blockhouse), a special Venetian frame saw, a mill and a Schwinghütte,
a special construction to mechanically break the roasted flax can
be visited. Since 2003 a so called Pluidl and a bone-stamp have been
activated.
The original Pluidl is integrated on the ground floor of a storage
building classified as a historical monument and gets activated by
the water of the Lehnbach brook. By means of the Pluidl (two 4-meter-long
tree trunks) the flax stalks are destroyed on a stone plate after
the water roasting.
