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Les Amis du Musée d'Offwiller means "Friends of the Offwiller Museum". The museum, Maison du village d'Offwiller (Offwiller Village House), is located at 42 Rue de la Liberation in the heart of Offwiller in southeast France.
Phil Hauss is the curator of the museum researching the history of Offwiller. Phil Brachet, who's wife Elizabet is from Offwiller and is a relation to our Briesachers, works mainly in the genealogy department offering guests and visitors information about their Offwiller ancestral hertiage. Phil Brachet speaks French, English, and German and is very helpful in your quest of Offwiller genealogy. Both men are nice, cordial and easy to address.
According to the museum's brochure it states: "The museum is an house created inside to be that of a typical 1782 countryman home. The residence of Offwiller have gathered utentils and domestic argicultural tools and craftsmen's implements in a typical farmhouse."
The Offwiller House Museum gave us the history of what life was like for our Johannes Briesacher, his wife Christina, and his six sons. It was not a comfortable life compared to our, however, it was a life of closeness. Typically, the quarters are close and small. How Johannes Briesacher lived in a typical small farmhouse with wife and six sons is hard to imagine.
Certain traditions and customs for the time and region are on display at the Offwiller Museum. For example, as you walk into foyer of every house you'll find a picture or hand-drawn display that welcomes you into the house. Also, you find in every "stube" or main gathering place of the house a cabinet, that in every house would hold the family Bible and drink with shotglasses.
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See Johannes Briesacher's shotglass that he bought with him from Offwiller to America in 1828. (coming soon). |
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Offwiller Museum in Offwiller, Alsace, France.
View the Masison du Village d'Offwiller Gallery
(coming soon)
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