page_title: Farmhouse
section_title: Germany
hierarchical_section_title: Farmhouse / Europe / Germany
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Ernhaus oder mitteldeutsches, thüringisches Haus, Abbildung aus: Braunschweiger Volkskunde, Richard Andree, Braunschweig, 1901. English: Middle German house, Ernhaus or Thuringian house, sketch from: Braunschweiger Volkskunde, Richard Andree, Braunschweig, 1901.
context_page_description: A farmhouse is a building that serves as the primary residence in a rural or agricultural setting. Historically, farmhouses were often combined with space for animals called a housebarn. Other farmhouses may be connected to one or more barns, built to form a courtyard, or with each farm building separate from each other.
context_section_description: Historically there were three main types of German farmhouses, many of which survive today. The Low German house or Niedersachsenhaus (Lower Saxony house) is found mainly on the North German Plain, but also in large parts of the Netherlands. It is a large structure with a sweeping roof supported by two to four rows of internal posts. The large barn door at the gable end opens into a spacious hall, or Deele, with cattle stalls and barns on either side and living accommodation at the end. The Middle German house may also be a single unit, but access is from the side, and the roof is supported by the outside walls. Later this type of mitteldeutsches Haus was expanded to two or more buildings around a rectangular farmyard, often with a second story. The South German house is found in southern Germany and has two main variants, the Swabian or Black Forest house and the Bavarian farmstead.
caption: A timber-framed Middle German house in Klein Schöppenstedt near Cremlingen around 1900
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