Heimathaus Wehdem
The classroom
The historic classroom transports the viewer back in time to the end of the 19th century and conveys the everyday school life of children in the region at that time.
Heimathaus Wehdem
The classroom
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Heimathaus Wehdem
The classroom
The Heimathaus houses a reconstructed classroom from the old Wehdem village school. Here one feels transported back to the time around 1900. On the benches preserved in the Heimathaus, writing exercises were carried out in those days with pen and ink under the sharp eyes of the village school teacher. Original teaching cards and recipes on how to make a "good black ink", old school benches and desks create an authentic atmosphere. In the one-class village school, students from several grades were taught geography, history, arithmetic and writing at the same time.
State report of the schools in Wehdem, December 1907
Royal Cadastral Office Rahden, Detmold State Archives (Research: Heiner Koop, drone - Bielefeld) Speaker: Jan-Philipp Ehlers
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To make a good black ink
Take 8 lohs of Victril, 14 lohs of gall apples, 6 lohs of gum, pound it all, and put it together in a pot, pour over it three and a half beers and cover the pot full, let it stand for 14 days, stir every day 5 or 6 times.
Another Take 5 lohs of gall, 3 lohs of Victril, three lohs of gum, a whole measure of water, a little vinegar and a spoonful of salt, boil, and stir often.
Or Take 2 lohs of gum, 2 lohs of Victril, three lohs of gall, 1 quart of wine vinegar, 2 quarts of rainwater, sieve through....
Another Nimb 5 Loht galles, 4 Loht Victril, and four Loht gu...., a measure beer, mixed half with fresh water, th(ue) in addition a little salt and vinegar.
Another Take 2 lohs of gumi, two lohs of Victril, 3 lohs of gall apples, half a silk of wine vinegar, and half a silk of rain water.
To make a good ink Take to one measure half a measure, and half a quart of water half a quart of urine, half a quart of good vinegar, 4 lohs of copper water, 4 lohs of gall water, put these (...?) all in, each one special ... according to each other in a ...... port on top of it pour the ob...... 2 ..... over it, stir it often among each other, a dayb.....more, and .... Fallen, pour in a glass, so you have .... down
To make a red ink
Take two lots of Prosilian and the white of twelve eggs, alum the size of a hazelnut, pound the egg white small, and put it all together, put it in the sun or in the oven for 2 days, stir it together from time to time, pass it through a cloth, and let the juice squeeze out, keep it in a clean cloth, and if you want to temper it, use pure water.
To make blue dints Take as much of the elderberry as you like, squeeze out the juice, add the alum, the fourth part of vinegar, and a little urine, pull a cloth through it, and see if it is fine enough.
V...blue dints Take attich berry, allum, vinegar and urine, temper with each other and boil it.
To make green dints Take fresh Holder leaves, pound them, and mix with Allaun, so you have a good green dinten.
To make a green dinten Take some of the little lard flowers that grow in the meadows, squeeze the juice from them, and also add a little alum or juice of alum..... This will also give you a ...... good dye.
**Note. A port - Middle High German - a vessel, container Schmaltzblümelein - another name for dandelion.