Amish & Mennonite Heritage Center

Amish and Mennonite Heritage Center
Amish and Mennonite Heritage Center in Berlin, Ohio
Established 1981
Location Berlin, Ohio
Type Cultural museum
Website behalt.com

The Amish and Mennonite Heritage Center is located at 5798 County Road 77 in Berlin, Ohio and was opened in 1981 first as the Mennonite Information Center. By 1989 center moved to the current structure which was finished to include the Behalt Cyclorama as well as a bookstore. The center was renamed in 2002 to reflect its mission as a cultural center.[1][2]

The center captures the rich heritage of Amish Country with the goal of accurately informing guests about the faith, culture and traditional ways of the Amish, Mennonite, and Hutterite people and their descendants.

The center offers visitors Behalt, a 10-foot tall by 265 foot cyclorama,[3] also known as a mural-in-the-round, illustrating the heritage of the Amish and Mennonite people from their origin in Switzerland (circa 1525) to present day.[4] Behalt was painted by artist Heinz Gaugel, a German born immigrant who came to Holmes County, Ohio in 1962. Inspiration for the painting came in 1978 when an Amish blacksmith said to Heinz, "I wish there was some place in the area that people could go and find out why we live the way we do."[5]

Also on the grounds of the museum are a pioneer barn house with a restored Conestoga wagon, buggies, farm equipment and an 1857 one-room schoolhouse.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "About Us | Amish & Mennonite Heritage Center". Behalt.com. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
  2. ↑ Alice T. Carter (2013-08-03). "Road Trip: Ohio's Amish Country". TribLIVE. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
  3. ↑ "Amish & Mennonite Heritage Center". Visitamishcountry.com. 2017-04-06. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
  4. ↑ "Amish and Mennonite Heritage Center". Ohiosamishcountry.com. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
  5. ↑ "Amish and Mennonite Heritage Center". Amish-heartland.com. 2014-02-03. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
  6. ↑ "Amish & Mennonite Heritage Center in Berlin, Ohio". Amishcountryinsider.com. Retrieved 2017-04-26.

Coordinates: 40°34′04″N 81°46′50″W / 40.5678°N 81.7805°W / 40.5678; -81.7805

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