Neubergthal was the place to be on Saturday, Sept. 15 if you love colourful stories, historical facts, housebarns, soup and platz and live music.
Read MoreThe village of Neubergthal has enjoyed one of its busiest summer tourist seasons on record.
Well over a thousand people have toured the National Historic Site over these past few months to get a first hand look at one of the best-preserved single street Mennonite villages in North America.
Read MoreIf you think moving a barn is hard work today, try doing it 140 years ago.
That’s the reminder Shaun Friesen likes to give during tours of the newly restored Commons Barn in Neubergthal, a small community southeast of Altona brimming with Mennonite history.
Nearly a century-and-a-half ago a group of Mennonite families left Russia in search of farmland and a place to start their next chapter. In 1876 they settled Neubergthal, a village in south-central Manitoba, just a 15-minute drive from the Canada-U.S. border.
Read MoreNeubergthal Heritage Site activity started up again last month.
Tours and events are taking place again at the Friesen Housebarn, Hamm Housebarn, Commons Barn, and the Bergthal School. Workshops also take place every Thursday.
Read MoreThe Bergthal School, located in Neubergthal, is finished with major renovation projects for now.
Joe Braun has been involved with the Bergthal school project for 8 years. He said a recent $3,500 dollar donation from Altona Community Foundation covered costs of the new floor, installation of storm windows, and ductwork.
Read MoreDiscussions have begun on whether the residents of Neubergthal need to establish some guidelines as to how the village will be developed in the future.
In 1997 Parks Canada designated Neubergthal as a national heritage site because it's an excellent example of how a Mennonite street village was used to settle western Canada.
Read More2017 was an eventful year for the Neubergthal Heritage Foundation as it continues its work of preserving the heritage of the Mennonite village.
A small crowd of local residents gathered to hear a variety of reports at the organization's annual general meeting this month.
Read MoreLike most Mennonites, Margruite Krahn knew women on southern Manitoba farms once hand-painted their homes with lively and colourful designs.
But it wasn’t until the Neubergthal artist became involved with a local housebarn preservation that she began to truly see these floors for herself.
Read MoreA small community in Manitoba is getting a big boost from Parks Canada.
The village of Neubergthal will see a $560,000 matching grant to help restore the Klippenstein house barn, a historic structure in the community about 95 kilometres south of Winnipeg.
Read MoreThe Neubergthal Heritage Foundation received some good news on the weekend in regards to a major project the organization has embarked on.
Parks Canada announced on Saturday that it has approved a grant of $560,000 to assist in funding the restoration of the Klippenstein housebarn located in the community. The foundation wants to rehabilitate the timber frame building that was one of the original structures erected in the village.
Read MoreNeubergthal has always known this place matters, and now it’s telling all of Canada why, in a competition of the same name.
The place is the Klippenstein house barn, one of two of the original buildings of this southern Manitoba village, and hauled here, timber by timber by Mennonite settlers in 1876 after being dismantled near Steinbach. There were no trees in sight in those days.
Read MoreWe first visited Neubergthal because we’d heard about the concerts in the Krahn Barn. I was curious. It was autumn, we turned onto the village’s one street, and parked near the dormant ice rink. People emerged from their vehicles and hurried across the street, into a beautifully restored red barn. We followed, and found ourselves upstairs in the loft, aglow with twinkle lights.
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