The Harvest Festival is one of the most beautiful traditions at Hessenpark. Since the beginnings of the open-air museum, the end of summer has been celebrated annually with harvest and craft demonstrations, food and drink.
At the threshing hall in the North Hesse building group, museum visitors can experience machine threshing with a threshing box and steam engine from October 1 to 3. In the Emstal-Sand farmyard, a historic tractor will drive a pin thresher and a wind thresher, while the flails will be swung using pure muscle power. All demonstrations show the threshing of the grain from the ears of corn. Every day, several wagons loaded with sheaves of grain are threshed in this way. During the grain cleaning process with wind sweep and worfel, you can see how the chaff is separated from the grain. The straw from the threshed sheaves is not only used as bedding in the barn. Straw ropes can be made from old grain varieties with long stalks using a historical machine. In the past, these served as an inexpensive substitute for rope. Today, they can be tied into wreaths and used as an autumnal decorative item.
The churches are decorated for autumn, and a harvest thanksgiving service is held in the church in Ederbringhausen on Saturday and Sunday. Children can make their own apple juice with small hand presses, swing the flail and demonstrate their craftsmanship by carving pumpkins or turnips. The autumn market also attracts visitors with a wide range of homemade handicrafts: knitted and sewn items, decorations for the home and garden, jewelry, leather goods and much more. Regional delicacies such as cheese and mushroom specialties, honey from direct marketers, all kinds of pumpkin delicacies, liqueurs and jams round off the offer.
Food and drink are also catered for: the potato steaming column is in action and produces freshly steamed Hessenpark potatoes, which are served with quark, green sauce and herring salad.
Harvest festival with fall market
01. - 03.10.2022, 11 am to 5 pm
The autumn market is open from 9 am to 6 pm, just like the museum.
Admission: adults 11 euros, children 1 euro, family ticket 22 euros
