Luhrs Cottage Museum

Luhrs Cottage was built of pug and straw in circa 1846 by J H Luhrs who was the first Lutheran school teacher in Light Pass.

This small four roomed cottage which was home to Teacher Luhrs, his wife Rosina and 5 children. It contains items that tell the tale of early Barossa life. The bedrooms display early German clothing and children’s toys. The front room exhibits the Luhrs family photos, homeopathic items and religious paintings. The kitchen has an array of kitchen-ware. The small fireplace was used for daily cooking and heating water for the weekly bath.

Out the back you will find the ‘Schoolroom’. This, in fact, was never a school room but a kitchen built 23 years after the original building. The room includes a large bake oven which was used to bake bread and cakes for the family. This kitchen now holds a large mixture of early German teaching boards, exercise books, baptism and confirmation certificates. The cellar below this kitchen was used to store preserves, meat, butter and other perishable foods.

Finally you can take a walk to see the ‘outhouse’, or long drop toilet, and the smokehouse that was used to smoke meat and German sausages. The yard and the shed display machinery used by early vignerons, an original German Wagon, other farm machinery and locally made hand tools.