Freilichtmuseum Oberlienz

Lots of sunshine, a marvellous view of the mountains around the Lienz valley floor - Oberlienz is without doubt a particularly beautiful place. The sunny village also has an impressive cultural landscape to offer. Anyone travelling along the well-maintained hiking trails is sure to notice the so-called "Feldgröfelmauern" in the meadows. These are dry stone walls, piled up from stones and rubble that once reached the fields through the Schleinitzgraben with mudslides, avalanches, etc.

If you walk along the Schleinitzbach stream in the village centre, you are basically already in the middle of the Oberlienz open-air museum, which consists of an ensemble of various historical buildings. They give an impression of life and farming in the region.

At the upper end of the open-air museum, you first come across the Bad- und Brechelstube, where flax was roasted and flax was broken until the early 1950s. Alongside sheep's wool, flax fibres formed the basis of all textiles used in rural life. The washed wool ran through wooden rollers and iron pins in the wool carding machine further down, which was driven by a paddle wheel - this is how it was cleaned and made ready for spinning.

The granary once stored fruit and potatoes on the open floor, field and garden crops and barrels of cabbage. The village grain store was located on the floor above.

The grain mill of the "Znopp" hereditary farm is also part of the open-air museum ensemble. Grain was ground here and processed into animal feed using the clover crusher. The large hammer in the farmyard and hardware forge further down was also driven by a water wheel, with a sophisticated system regulating the air supply for the bellows.