Torfschiffswerft-Museum Schlußdorf
Museum in Worpswede, Germany
The Turf Shipyard (German: Torfschiffswerft) in Schlussdorf, Lower Saxony, Germany, is a former boat builder's yard now used as an open-air museum. The yard, operating from 1850 to 1954, was specialised on barges to transport turf, that is dried peat used as fuel. In 1975 the Heimatverein Schlußdorf (i.e. Schlussdorf Traditions Club) started to rescue the dilapidated shipyard buildings and reopened the site as a museum in 1977. The Turf Shipyard is about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) north of Worpswede's outskirts. The Turf Shipyard is the only of its kind preserved in Northern Germany. As a museum it
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- Where:
- Worpswede, Germany
- Coordinates:
- 53.24°N, 8.97°E
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