In the countryside, there used to be many sheep whose wool was used to make yarn and fabrics. Prior to industrialisation, the wool was finished, dyed, spun and woven manually.

It took a lot of courage and skill to drive a penny-farthing with a saddle height of up to 1.65 metres, for it not rarely came to serious accidents.

Show me your garb and I know where you are from, whether you are married or not, and the occasion on which you are wearing it.

“Wandervögel” does not mean swarms of migratory birds in this case, but young men and women who turned their backs on the big city and the industrialised world to seek their well-being in nature.

In the small corner shop in Niederkaufungen, the village residents were able to buy not only food and luxury items but also basic consumables – all the way to nylon stockings.