![]() ![]() The great roof, with its long overhangs, sweeps right down to the ground floor at the sides, shading the walls of the house in summer whilst allowing the sun, now much lower in the sky, to warm the walls in winter. The largely wooden superstructure of the house usually rests on a basement made of natural stone. The house combines both living and working rooms, as well as animal stalls, under one roof. ![]() Key: Sonneneinstrahlung im Sommer = "direction of sun's rays in summer", Sonneneinstrahlung im Winter = "direction of sun's rays in winter", Heuvorräte/Fahrzeuge = "hay stores / vehicles", Schlafräume = "bedrooms", Werkstätten = "workshops", Holzvorräte - "wood stores", Wohnen/Küche = "living area and kitchen", Vieh = "cattle", Keller = "cellar" Black Forest kitchen with a cocklestove, painting by Georg Saal, 1861 Clockmaker's workshop in a Black Forest house, based on a watercolour by L. It is externally similar to the Gutach house, but differs from the latter in its design and floor plan.ĭesign Schematic longitudinal section through a Black Forest farmhouse. The "Kinzig valleys house" ( Kinzigtäler Haus) is mainly found in the catchment areas of the rivers Acher, Rench, Kinzig and Schutter, i.e.It is possibly the most typical form of farmhouse that is linked to the Black Forest. The "Gutach house" ( Gutacher Haus) is found on the eastern perimeter of the Black Forest.Here too, the house usually has its longer side facing the slope and has a long roof on all sides. ![]() The "Hotzen house" ( Hotzenhaus) must withstand similar climate conditions it is still widespread in the climatically harsh Hotzenwald.It stands, unlike the aforementioned types, with its longer side facing the slope, from where the silage is also transported. The "Schauinsland house" ( Schauinslandhaus), named after the local hill of Freiburg, the Schauinsland, is located in the high regions, near the summits of the southern Black Forest.Its name is derived from the villages of Zarten and Kirchzarten in the Dreisam Valley in the southern Black Forest. The "Zarten house" ( Zartener Haus) tends to be found on level valley bottoms.The roof on both forms is usually a full hipped roof that descends to the ground floor, i.e. The "heath house in its newer form" ( Heidenhaus in seiner neueren Form) differs from the older form by the rotation of the floor plan through around 180°, so that the living rooms now face the valley.Doubtless the term was intended to symbolize the archaic appearance of this type of house and its supposedly ancient origins…" It may be for this reason they believed this form of house was invented by heathens and therefore called it a "heath house". Its name is explained thus: "The farmers of the High Black Forest have kept alive the knowhow for building the unique medieval design elements of the single-roofed house to this day. In its older form the living rooms face the slope of the hill. The "heath house" ( Heidenhaus), or "hill house" ( Höhenhaus), is by far the oldest form of Black Forest farmhouse, and is mostly found in the High Black Forest.Hermann Schilli, the initiator of the open-air museum of Vogtsbauernhof distinguishes seven types of Black Forest house: House types ĭepending on the site of the individual farms various types of Black Forest house have emerged which are designed to cope with the specific climatic situation. The Black Forest house is described by Dickinson as very characteristic of the Swabian farmstead type. Individual farms, such as the Hierahof near Kappel, which are still worked today, are over 400 years old. This type of dwelling is suited to the conditions of the Black Forest: hillside locations, broad tracks, high levels of snowfall and heavy wind loading. ![]() It is characterised externally by a long hipped or half-hipped roof that descends to the height of the ground floor. The Black Forest house ( German: Schwarzwaldhaus) is a byre-dwelling that is found mainly in the central and southern parts of the Black Forest in southwestern Germany. Type of house found in southwestern Germany The farm of Vogtsbauernhof in the eponymous open-air museum House of a Black Forest peasant farmer around 1900 ![]()
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