Franconian halftimbered houses
Definition:
Halftimbered houses have got a bearing wooden scaffolding, where the gaps are most time filled with wood, clay or brick.
Building halftimbered houses is known since the 12. Century. It was a wellknown way to build houses in the north of the Alpes. They were built especially in regions where people had got much forest. Wood was cheep there, because there was much of it and it was easy to transport.Clay was found and digged out of the ground without to pay anything.
Where can you find halftimbered houses?
You can see them in old parts of towns (also in Bamberg), and you can see them in almost all villages of our region.
How is a halftimbered house built?
At first it was put up on the ground walls, which were always out of stone. Then people transported wood of oaks or fir-trees, which was rather long-life, to the building-place and handled it. Between the beams there was either wood with clay or stones. Later people used to take plaster with stones.
The houses are always famous today. So people, who love them, by them and renovate very old examples to live there. They have to spend a lot of money and time for those renovations. So an old tradtion and way of life is kept up.
Halftimbered houses have got a bearing wooden scaffolding, where the gaps are most time filled with wood, clay or brick.
Building halftimbered houses is known since the 12. Century. It was a wellknown way to build houses in the north of the Alpes. They were built especially in regions where people had got much forest. Wood was cheep there, because there was much of it and it was easy to transport.Clay was found and digged out of the ground without to pay anything.
Where can you find halftimbered houses?
You can see them in old parts of towns (also in Bamberg), and you can see them in almost all villages of our region.
How is a halftimbered house built?
At first it was put up on the ground walls, which were always out of stone. Then people transported wood of oaks or fir-trees, which was rather long-life, to the building-place and handled it. Between the beams there was either wood with clay or stones. Later people used to take plaster with stones.
The houses are always famous today. So people, who love them, by them and renovate very old examples to live there. They have to spend a lot of money and time for those renovations. So an old tradtion and way of life is kept up.