Café im Clüverhaus

With this building, a small piece of the former farming village of Achim has been preserved. The former farm is one of the 14 Bauhöfe (large farms), most of which were farmed until the 20th century. Historically, these farmsteads are probably the oldest settlements in the village and were originally all located near the church. Today's Clüver house, a typical Lower Saxon two-storey half-timbered farmhouse, was built in 1824, as the beam above the "Grootdöör" indicates.

The previous house was destroyed by fire in 1823, in which the three-year-old daughter Margarethe of the builder Franz Clüver also died. The farmstead was owned by the Clüver family for several centuries.

Where people and animals once lived under one roof, today a café is run by the Waldheim Werkstätten, a charitable institution for people with disabilities.

The Clüverhaus forms a beautiful ensemble with the neighboring Meislahn farmstead (also on Große Kirchenstraße). Following the restoration of the old half-timbered barn, the timber framing was reinstalled with wickerwork. In addition to the church, the ensemble also includes the Bischoff farm, now Scherf Nachfolger. This is where the Achim farming quarter - the "old village of Achim" - is located.