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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 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 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 group includes: Ernhaus (hall house, hall kitchen house). Ern is a Frankish word for the hall. Oberdeutsches Haus (Upper German house) Thüringisches Haus (Thuringian house) Fränkisches Haus (Frankish house) The Middle German houses have a floor plan transverse to the walls where the Low German houses are longitudinal ...
The Middle German house (German: mitteldeutsches Haus) 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) Oberdeutsches Haus (Upper German house) Thüringisches Haus ...
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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 ...
I write as the daughter of German immigrants who survived Nazi Germany and came to America in the early 1950s. My father was conscripted in Germany, at 17 years of age, and fought in the German ...