In the Middle Ages, the vast majority of the population lived in the countryside. Women carried out a variety of tasks in addition to the strenuous work in the fields: They prepared the daily meals, washed clothes, hauled water and made clothes for their families. The only way to escape the grueling cycle of childbearing and hard physical labor was to live in a monastery. It was only in the flourishing cities of the late Middle Ages that new opportunities opened up for women. Women were successful in trade, they worked in many trades, ran merchant stores or sold their products. The economic development of the cities
had a lasting effect on the position of women. The exhibition highlights the different roles of women in the Middle Ages. The many tasks that women had to perform are vividly illustrated, from basket weaving to feather grinding, from gathering herbs to brewing beer
.
The exhibition “Women’s lives in the Middle Ages”
was conceived by the art historian
Dr. Alice Selinger, Dreieich.
Saturday, 15.03.2025 to Sunday, 22.06.2025
EXHIBITION
The exhibition is complemented by an accompanying program for different age groups
. Further information will be available from March at www.kloster-wechterswinkel-
kultur.de and in the Rhön-Grabfeld cultural calendar.
Wednesday – Sunday and public holidays from 13:00 – 17:00.
Wechterswinkel Monastery
Um den Bau 6, Wechterswinkel, Bastheim, 97654 Bastheim OT Wechterswinkel
