Hessenpark Open-Air Museum in Neu-Anspach, Hesse, Part 3

This tour of Hessenpark continues here with a house for weavers and information about the various kinds of woven cloth made here.

This was one of the most sober buildings in the park–a train station with an actual train car used to deport people during WWII.

We’ve all read accounts of the transports and the broken hearts carried in these boxcars. It was chilling to step into one of them.

Here is another church, built in 1480!

And another church:

These are some of the dozens of sheds covering parts and pieces of documented homes waiting to be reconstructed here. At first I thought they were just wood sheds and I thought Dad came by his “Junk Shed” naturally–it looked very much like these, with parts and pieces of anything that might one day be useful.