Sep 6, 2008 22:11
15 yrs ago
German term
United States
Scheunenhaus
German to English
Tech/Engineering
Architecture
Open-air museum
This is not just a barn, it's old style building that used to be fairly common in the Netherlands and northern Germany that was sort of a house within a house (or barn, in this case). I've seen one at an open-air museum in/near Vechta, Germany, but don't know a proper English term.
Proposed translations
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| 2 +1 | North German farmhouse |
Donal Murphy-Bokern
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| 4 | barn-house / barnhouse |
swisstell
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| 3 +1 | house barn |
Helen Shiner
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Sep 6, 2008 22:59: Kim Metzger changed "Field" from "Other" to "Tech/Engineering"
Sep 7, 2008 08:08: Steffen Walter changed "Field (specific)" from "Tourism & Travel" to "Architecture"
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North German farmhouse
I live in Vechta and know this type of house well. There are variants - all laid out in the museum in Cloppenburg. The principal characteristic is the single large roof that covered the area for a family (usually extended), cattle, hay, straw, and implements. I've not come across a translation other than just a farm house - North German to be more precise. Some people would say a Lower Saxony Farmhouse perhaps as it is closely associated with Lower Saxony, and referred to as such in German. There are still some used in this way.
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Comment: "Thanks. This is definitely what I was thinking, though after reading the other comments for house barn, they seem like a better fit for my item."
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barn-house / barnhouse
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Helen Shiner
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house barn
"Lutze House Barn
13634 South Union Road - Centerville
Listed in the state and national register on 6/7/1984. The Lutze house barn, constructed about 1849, is one of only two known examples of the Saxon German house barn-style construction remaining in the United States. Also, the house barn has undergone very little modification. In 1984, the barn was rated as national significant, and ranked a higher need for receiving the distinction than the Pabst Mansion in Milwaukee."
http://www.tworiverseconomicdevelopment.org/relocation/sites...
See also my reference comments. Both relate to the US, but this one does look as if it might also apply more generally. It has the advantage of being fairly transparent, too, for an EN reader.
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Kim, looks like you and I hit on the same thing at exactly the same time!!
13634 South Union Road - Centerville
Listed in the state and national register on 6/7/1984. The Lutze house barn, constructed about 1849, is one of only two known examples of the Saxon German house barn-style construction remaining in the United States. Also, the house barn has undergone very little modification. In 1984, the barn was rated as national significant, and ranked a higher need for receiving the distinction than the Pabst Mansion in Milwaukee."
http://www.tworiverseconomicdevelopment.org/relocation/sites...
See also my reference comments. Both relate to the US, but this one does look as if it might also apply more generally. It has the advantage of being fairly transparent, too, for an EN reader.
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Note added at 43 mins (2008-09-06 22:54:46 GMT)
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Kim, looks like you and I hit on the same thing at exactly the same time!!
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Kim Metzger
: Related to the US, but these houses were built by Germans, the so-called Pennsylvania "Dutch".
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Exactly. Not to be confused with Dutch barns, though!!
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Helen Shiner
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Under the term, 'German / Swiss barn this is the explanation given:
"Any one of a variety of barns, often serving as a combination barn and home, built during the 18th and 19th centuries by German-speaking immigrants to the New World; especially characterized by a shingled gambrel roof or gable roof; a second floor overhanging one side of the barn, well beyond the foundation; usually an inclined driveway providing direct entry to the threshing floor where wheat was threshed, hay was stored, and where the family lived. The basement was used as a stable for horses, cattle, and sheep; often of stone construction or masonry up to the threshing floor and wood construction above. Many stone barns had long, narrow, vertical slots in the walls for supplying the barn with fresh air. Also see bank barn, forebay barn, grundscheier, Pennsylvania barn, Sweitzer barn, slit ventilator."
http://www.answers.com/topic/german-barn-swiss-barn-1
This though is US usage for an imported style of barn built in the US, so may work there, but not be appropriate for your use. thought I would post it anyway, in case it lead on to something else for you via the links.
"Any one of a variety of barns, often serving as a combination barn and home, built during the 18th and 19th centuries by German-speaking immigrants to the New World; especially characterized by a shingled gambrel roof or gable roof; a second floor overhanging one side of the barn, well beyond the foundation; usually an inclined driveway providing direct entry to the threshing floor where wheat was threshed, hay was stored, and where the family lived. The basement was used as a stable for horses, cattle, and sheep; often of stone construction or masonry up to the threshing floor and wood construction above. Many stone barns had long, narrow, vertical slots in the walls for supplying the barn with fresh air. Also see bank barn, forebay barn, grundscheier, Pennsylvania barn, Sweitzer barn, slit ventilator."
http://www.answers.com/topic/german-barn-swiss-barn-1
This though is US usage for an imported style of barn built in the US, so may work there, but not be appropriate for your use. thought I would post it anyway, in case it lead on to something else for you via the links.
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340 Year Old Imported German House Barn
German combination of house and barn allowed heat from animals to help warm house portion.
http://elwood.pionet.net/~heritag/
http://iowa.statesite.com/page16.html
Hallenhaus or Housebarn: The primitive tradition of combining house and barn in one structure without partitions. The Pelster Housebarn is a fine example of Fachwerk construction, with its massive white-oak timbers hand-hewn with a broad ax. All joints are mortised, tenoned and secured with pegs. Roman numerals designated each beams’ location in the frame work and design. Limestone was used as fill between the timbers.
http://keeven-franke.com/Housebarn.html
German combination of house and barn allowed heat from animals to help warm house portion.
http://elwood.pionet.net/~heritag/
http://iowa.statesite.com/page16.html
Hallenhaus or Housebarn: The primitive tradition of combining house and barn in one structure without partitions. The Pelster Housebarn is a fine example of Fachwerk construction, with its massive white-oak timbers hand-hewn with a broad ax. All joints are mortised, tenoned and secured with pegs. Roman numerals designated each beams’ location in the frame work and design. Limestone was used as fill between the timbers.
http://keeven-franke.com/Housebarn.html
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