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This fire engine house is the reconstruction of the small house of St. Hubert-Voesch, which was built in 1779 and collapsed in 1959. In this kind of fire engine houses all the firefighting equipment was stored, like buckets, fire engines, pike pole and fire hoses. Before the 18th century the fire extinguishing equipment was stored with the respective owners. The name of the owner was written on each piece of equipment, so it was possible to recognize which piece belonged to whom. Then fire engine houses were built in more places and in the 19th century the voluntary fire department emerged.

In the towns the fire departments were organized by crafts and guilds, but on the countryside this was all voluntary work. Due to the technological developments the equipment got more and more advanced. Especially the fire engine, which was developed in the 16th century, replaced the wooden hand engine and the leathern or wooden buckets. Since the 17th century there are leathern fire hoses and the first hemp hoses were developed in the middle of the 18th century. But these could only be really used 100 years later, when the hose was rubber-lined.

Did you know that…
… in the past no fire truck came to help in the case of fire? Everyone owned a bucket and had to help in the neighborhood, if there was a fire somewhere. Later the voluntary fire departments emerged, which could extinguish the fire with a fire engine. The fire engine was either pulled by people or horses to the burning house or farm.