page_title: Alteckendorf
section_title: The habitat
hierarchical_section_title: Alteckendorf / Urbanism, a merger of two village communities / The habitat
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: ancienne carte postale d'Alteckendorf datée de 1917
context_page_description: Alteckendorf is a French commune in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region of northeastern France.
  The inhabitants of the commune are known as Alteckendorfois or Alteckendorfoises
context_section_description: The oldest farms are the half-timbered houses that were built in the traditional Alsatian architectural style. The frame of the building is wooden with a filling of mud, the foundations being stone. These mixed farms all have more or less the same basic plan. They are composed of several buildings around a courtyard. The main house, with or without a first floor, is oriented towards the street (with rare exceptions). On the other side of the court are the stables and cowsheds with a barn in the back. The yard is separated from the street by a large gate. Visible from the street are the names of the builders with the date of construction  on the buildings or the gates. No construction dates back before the 18th century. Farms rebuilt at the beginning of the 19th century are all within Eckendorf and Oberaltdorf. Those built in the middle of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries are located along the main street. From the last third of the 19th century the builders gradually abandoned wood and mud in favour of baked bricks, the traditional plan, however, was preserved.
  In 1999 there were 265 lodgings but ten were vacant and three were second homes; 80% were houses and 14% were apartments; 88.1% are 4 rooms or more and 77% are owner-occupied. Between 2008 and 2010 two new districts were created. These subdivisions called Clos Saint Georges in Eckendorf and les Vergers in Altdorf consist of forty dwellings. The municipality, having bought in 2009 two former farms at Eckendorf next to the subdivision of Clos Saint Georges, decided to turn them into a set of eight rental lodgings with a multi-service store.
caption: The building of the "Buredewels" farm built in 1809 in Altdorf and photographed one hundred years later.
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