The Pauenhof, first mentioned in maps of the 12th century, until 1969 was a normal farm with cows, horses, pigs and chickens.
From 1969 it became a specialized piglet breeding farm with 140 mother sows.
In 1988 Johannes Troost, who had 4 federal patents and 8 utility models in the agricultural machinery industry in the 1960s, stopped farming and converted the farm into a tractor museum for 2 years. He started collecting tractors as early as 1976 when he saved an old Hanomag from being scrapped and thus aroused his collecting passion. Up to the opening of the museum in 1990, it became about 120 old babies. From now on, not only tractors but also old agricultural machines were collected, even the restaurant (to the tractor) is in the country
technology style and decorated with a number of machine parts. In 1999, Norbert Stapper, a trained power plant electronics engineer, took over the museum from Johannes Troost and has been managing the business ever since. But even with this number of tractors and agricultural machinery is still a rare piece that fits into the collection.