2. Old World Wisconsin Galleries

German Area of OWW

Old World Wisconsin, the Midwest's largest outdoor living history museum, showcases the life of immigrants to the State of Wisconsin in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is owned and operated by the Wisconsin Historical Society and occupies nearly 600 acres in the rolling hills of the Kettle Moraine area of Southeast Wisconsin near the small village of Eagle. It includes nine ethnic farms plus a village with a blacksmith, cobbler, general store, church, inn, shoe shop, and several residences. Interpreters dress in period clothing and go about their daily chores of farming, cooking, laundry, shoe making, blacksmithing, etc. The 40 some odd historic builldings on the site were moved to Old World from various locations in the early 1970s. The museum was opened to the public as the bicentennial project of the State of Wisconsin in 1976.
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Interesting geometrical shapes in the summer kitchen at the Schottler farm.
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Interesting geometrical shapes in the summer kitchen at the Schottler farm.

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  • An interpreter holds a sheave of flax prior to carding it.
  • An interpreter at the Koepsell farm uses a "schnitzelbank" to hold an ax handle he is carving with a drawknife.
  • "Mom" shows her piglets how to roll in the mud at the Schottler farm in the German area.
  • Interesting geometrical shapes in the summer kitchen at the Schottler farm.
  • Scarecrow with a personality at the Schottler farm.
  • Garden tools at the Koepsell farm.
  • Scarecrow at the Schulz farm with the Koepsell farm in the background.
  • Kruza house showing "stovewood" construction. This type of construction was labor intensive but required only one person and was sometimes used because of the plentiful supply of cordwood
  • View through the Grube barn showing the 1860 Schulz farmhouse in the distance.
  • Sheaves of straw of the type used for the thatched roof on the Grube barn at the Schulz farm.
  • 1860 Schulz (German) Farmhouse
  • Detail of the "stovewood" construction used for the 1900 Kruza (Polish) house. Marker tags like those on upper log were used when the house was disassembled for transport to Old World. Each log was numbered so it could be reassembled in the proper order.
  • An ox relaxes at the 1860 Schulz (German) Farm.
  • Wooden pitchfork in the Grube barn at the Schulz farm.
  • Cider press on back porch of the 1880 Koepsell farmhouse.
  • Koepsell farmhouse parlor. Note photo of Friedrich and Maria Koepsell in the oval frame near top of the photo.
  • This portrait of Friedrich and Sophia Koepsell hangs in the parlor of the Koepsell (German) farmhouse today.
  • 1860 Schulz garden and farmhouse. Note how the garden squares mirror the fachwerk on the house. Also notivce the twig fence surrounding the garden used to keep out wild animals. That's the 1880 Schottler farm in the distance.
  • An intrerpreter makes a pie at the Schulz farmhouse.
  • Back entrance to the Schulz farmhouse.
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