Mondsee Off The Beaten Path

Inside the monastery you may visit a museum with local exhibits like these costumes, some old paintings and sculptures of the church.
This museum was in fact not very special, in my opinion, BUT at least it gave me the idea to visit the Rauchhaus, that I would have missed otherwise.

Under the roof you may see a beehive.
This was another step in order to be independent from buying anything in a local store.
Beeing independant and able to produce all goods of everday life was an important goal of all farmers of these ancient times.

Inside one of the barns you may see this old machinery, obviously some sort of a press.

When you click on my pic, you may see it even has some ornaments on the press.
In the back an old harrow (Egge)

There is also a small watermill inside the museum.
You may not enter this mill, but simply walk around and have a look from outside.
Some millstones are there as well shown there in front of the building.

Even the nails were made of wood in these ancient times, as iron was extremely expensive and not available mostly.

When you click on my pic, you may see these great wooden nails, that even add something like a decoration to the old wood.

All of the family of the framer and also his employees were having their meals there.
Everything looks very simply today , but for that time plenty of people were happy to be able to work on a farm for free lodging and food and a few coins every month.
No unions then, no pensions, no social welfare - just the goodwill of the farmers, when you were too old to work...

An "Einbaum" is a boat that was cut out of a single trunk of a tree.
In the back of my pic you may see a shed that coveres 2 of these ancient boats.

On my pic you also see another type of well, that was mostly the only supply of water on a farm.
Just imagine the strong winters with the frozen wells beeing the only way to wash yourself.

This farmhouse was originally built at this very place.
The first floor is already built by stone and just the 2nd floor is made of wood.
The Museum is open daily except monday:
1st of may till sep. 8th :10.00 a.m. - 06.00 p.m.
sept. 11th - oct. 10th : 10.00 a.m. - 05.00 p.m.
oct . 9th - 29th sat.+sunday and holidays 10.00 a.m. - 05.00 p.m.

entrance fee is 3,- €uro