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The house entrance is almost always on the eaves side. In the Bavarian Forest Museum Village, however, there are several houses with an entrance at the gable end. In front of the main door is the so-called Gred, a usually cobbled, rain-protected path along the eaves side. The house door opens into a corridor, the so-called Flez.
The German name, Fachhallenhaus, is a regional variation of the term Hallenhaus ("hall house", sometimes qualified as the "Low Saxon hall house").In the academic definition of this type of house the word Fach does not refer to the Fachwerk or "timber-framing" of the walls, but to the large Gefach or "bay" between two pairs of the wooden posts (Ständer) supporting the ceiling of the hall and ...
The generic German term is Wohnstallhaus from Wohnung ("dwelling"), Stall ("byre", "sty)" and Haus ("house"). From the Iron Age onwards the longhouse, developed from the byre-dwellings of the Bronze Age with its domestic area and adjacent cattle bays, was found across the North German Plain. As a result of the keeping of ever larger herds of ...
The Middle German house ([mitteldeutsches Haus] Error: {{Langx}}: transliteration of latn script ) is a style of traditional German farmhouse which is predominantly found in Central Germany. It is known by a variety of other names, many of which indicate its regional distribution: Ernhaus (hall house, hall kitchen house)
The Bauernhausmuseum (Farmhouse Museum) is an open-air museum located in the village of Lindberg in Germany. [1] [2] It consists of three buildings: the museum house, the "Zur Bärenhöhle" inn and the chapel. It is the only open-air museum in Lower Bavaria, which can be visited at its original, centuries-old square. Both houses were not ...
The Ruhmeshalle (German pronunciation: [ˈʁuːməsˌhalə], lit. ' Hall of Fame ' ) is a Doric colonnade with a main range and two wings, designed by Leo von Klenze for Ludwig I of Bavaria . Built in 1853, it is situated on an ancient ledge above the Theresienwiese in Munich and was built as part of a complex which also includes the ...
Aerial view of the Walhalla memorial Walhalla, seen from the Danube River. The Walhalla (German pronunciation: ⓘ) is a hall of fame Monument that honours laudable and distinguished people in German history – "politicians, sovereigns, scientists and artists of the German tongue"; [1] thus the celebrities honoured are drawn from Greater Germany, a wider area than today's Germany, and even as ...
An Old Frisian farmhouse (German: Altfriesisches Bauernhaus) is a small unit farmhouse (Wohnstallhaus) that combined the farmer's living area and animals' stalls, and had limited space for storing harvest products. It was widely distributed across the North German Plain until the middle of the 17th century and was the forerunner of the Gulf house.