With soap and washboard...A wash day like around 1900
The museum courtyard at the Malchiner Tor will be a washing scene like in former times. Here, visitors young and old can experience and try out for themselves how women washed laundry around 120 years ago. You will learn why this only happened every four to six weeks, but then for one or two days. Linen washing then hangs on the clotheslines in the museum courtyard, which are stretched up with homemade wooden hooks. In a wooden tub or a zinc tub you can rub a piece of laundry clean yourself with soap and water on a washboard, rinse it with clear water, wring it out and hang it up. You can also try out a rotary iron. You will be equipped with aprons and a headscarf like the washerwomen in former times. Have fun!