Austria . This specific building in
Schwarzenberg,
Vorarlberg (
Austria) is listed as a protected building. • Zwerchhof is found in eastern and southeastern Austria. A brief description of similar house types is at the open-air museum
Museumsdorf Niedersulz. • Engadinerhaus, see below in section on Switzerland. • Vierkanter or Vierkanthof are courtyard farms. The courtyard is formed by walls of a large building or the placement of several buildings creating an enclosed courtyard. • The
Bregenzerwälderhaus is a housebarn from the
Bregenz Forest in
Vorarlberg Belgium In Belgium, most of farms were housebarns, referred to as
Langgevelboerderij (long-facade farm) in
Dutch and simply
cinse (farm) in
Walloon, then
ferme in
French. They were located in the heart of the village until the early
1950s. At that time,
barns, at first, then
stables began to be built outside the main building, or even outside the village. Houthalen - Hoeve Claes.jpg|Housebarn at
Houthalen,
Limburg (dwelling left, cow stable in the middle, forage barn right) Cinse Viyance.jpg|Housebarn in
Villance, in the
Ardennes (same structure, except stable door) Cinse tchår fornea Sint-Mitchî.jpg|Old type, same structure, forage barn left (outside museum of Awenne,
Saint-Hubert)
Canada •
Mennonite settlers from the
Russian Empire emigrated to Western Canada beginning in 1874. Originating in the Netherlands, they continued the practice of living in street villages and building housebarns for centuries and brought this practice to Canada. The largest collection of extant examples of Mennonite housebarns can be seen in the southern
Manitoba villages of
Neubergthal,
Reinland, Sommerfeld, and other
West Reserve villages, as well as at the
Mennonite Heritage Village museum in
Steinbach, Manitoba.
Estonia • Rehielamu, The traditional Estonian farmhouse is a combined living space, "kiln" for cooking and drying crops, and threshing barn. The farmhouse is of two types, the põhjatüüp (northern type) and the Rehielamu lõunatüüp (southern type). No English article as of March 2013 but information is available at the
Estonian Wikipedia written in Estonian.
France and Spain housebarn in
Álava, Basque Country of Spain •
Mas and called the
masia in
Catalonia (
Spain). These are two storey farmhouses with room for animals on the ground floor. •
Bresse Farmhouse (Ferme bressane, French; Bressehaus, German) - amed for the
Bresse region of France. Sometimes the Bresse farmhouse is a housebarn but they may have separate farm buildings. • Maison landaise, the
Landes house - has no uniformity but is sometimes a byre-dwelling. It is named for the region where it is found, the department of
Landes in southwest France. For images see
Category:Maison landaise. • Lorraine House - see below in section on Germany •
Cabaña pasiega - Sometimes a house-barn, sometimes a warehouse and barn •
Baserri - A farmhouse in the
Basque Country in northern Spain and southern France
Germany Housebarns in Germany are generally called an einhaus (single-house or "all-in-one house"), eindachhof (one-roof-house) or
wohnstallhaus (residential barn house). The
Middle German house group includes: • Ernhaus (hall house, hall kitchen house). Ern is a Frankish word for the hall. • Oberdeutsches Haus (Upper German house) • Thüringisches Haus (Thuringian house) • Fränkisches Haus (Frankish house) The Middle German houses have a floor plan transverse to the walls where the Low German houses are longitudinal floor plan, three
aisled buildings (dreischiffige). The
Low German house group extends from the Netherlands to East Prussia and includes: • Flett-Deelen-Haus - a hall house with a very common floor plan including an open kitchen (flett) to the side of the hall (deele) • Kübbungshaus - a hall house of two-post construction called a
Zweiständerhaus, named after the side aisles called kübbungen • Niedersachsenhaus (Low Saxon house) • Sächsisches Haus (Saxon house) • Altsächsisches Bauernhaus (Old Saxon farmhouse) • Westfälisches Bauernhaus (Westphalian farmhouse) • Westfalenhaus (Westphalian house) The
Gulf house (Gulfhaus) is named for the storage area called a gulf. Its range extends across the North Sea coastal regions from
West Flanders to
Elbe-Weser Triangle. The Gulf house developed from the
Old Frisian farmhouse. • Gulfhof (Gulf farmhouse) • Ostfriesenhaus (East Frisian house) •
Haubarg - variant in
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany The
Geestharden house named for the geography of part of the region it is found, the
geest, in Northern Germany, Denmark, and northern Netherlands. The Geestharden, Gulf house (including its variant, the Haubarg) and the Low German hall house are the three basic, historic farmhouse types in the German state of
Schleswig-Holstein. •
Uthland-Frisian house or Frisian house (Uthlandfriesische Haus or Friesenhaus in German) - found in
Uthlande; a variant of the Geestharden house Other house types in southern Germany include: • Upper Swabian farmhouse (Oberschwäbischer Bauernhof) is found throughout
Swabia (Bavaria) but mainly
Upper Swabia. •
Lorraine house (Lothringerhaus or Lothringer Bauernhaus) is found in the
Lorraine (region), France and
Saarland, Germany. This floor plan is arranged transversely, in German called quereinhaus. They are stone, two-storey buildings. The
Upper Lusatian house or Umgebinde is another barn-house type found in a region in part of Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic, a wider range than the historical region of
Upper Lusatia. This is a transversely divided Middle German house with unique construction features. The
Black Forest house group are found in southwest Germany in the
Black Forest region and include: • 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. • Heath house in its newer form (Heidenhaus in seiner neueren form) • Zarten house (Zartener Haus) tends to be found on level valley bottoms. Its name is derived from the villages of Zarten and Kirchzarten in the
Dreisam Valley in the southern Black Forest. • 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. • Hotzen house (Hotzenhaus) found in the
Hotzenwald • Gutacher house (Gutacher Haus) is found on the eastern perimeter of the Black Forest. It is possibly the most typical form of farmhouse that is linked to the Black Forest. • Kinzig Valley house (Kinzigtäler Haus) Housebarns were common in the
Schleswig-Holstein region of German in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Great Britain and Ireland (c.1350) has been preserved as a definitive example of a
Dartmoor longhouse with preserved medieval thatched roofing. • Longhouses such as the
Dartmoor longhouse are found in southwestern England;
Cornwall,
Devon,
Wales, and lowland Scotland. A porched cross passage gave access to living quarters positioned on the upper slope with animal accommodation downslope to assist drainage. •
Bastle house, Scottish-English border. A two-storey building not found elsewhere in Britain. The ground floor used for animals, the upper floor for living space. A general list of farm types in the Dutch language is
here. Hall-farmhouse group (hallenhuisboerderij) also known as the
Low German house group: •
Langsdeeltype aisled barn type •
Dwarsdeeltype cross floor type •
Hallenhuisboerderij (Hall house farmhouse) •
Langgevelboerderij (long facade farmhouse) found in
North Brabant, Limburg and neighboring parts of Belgium. These developed from the hall house and consist of a long building that faces the road, with the house at one end. •
Krukboerderij L-shaped farm, found in
Betuwe •
T-boerderij or betuwse boerderij, found in Overijssel,
Utrecht and
South Holland, these combined houses and barns are similar to the
kop-rompboerderijen, but the farmhouse forms the crossbar of a letter 'T', with the barn forming the stem. •
Los hoes boerderij (loose house) are found around
Twente, Overijssel. These buildings were originally open inside. The farmer and his family sharing the same space as the livestock, thus the name
loose house. Cross house group (dwarshuisgroep): • Separate buildings for housing, barn, stall, etc. arranged in an L shape U shape or courtyard. • Middenlimburgse (Middle Limburg type) developed two parallel buildings. •
Drentse-boerderij, found in
Drenthe and northern
Overijssel. These elongated buildings are often
thatched. Northern house group (noordelijke huisgroep) also called the Frisian house group (Friese huisgroep): •
Kop-hals-rompboerderij (head-neck-rump farmhouse) is known in English as the
Frisian farmhouse. Found in
Friesland and western
Groningen, these buildings consist of three sections, the
kop (head) containing the house, the
hals (neck) being a small linking section, and the
romp (rump) being the barn; so-named from the similar appearance of a recumbent cow. This house type is descended from the
Old Frisian longhouse. •
Bildtse boerderij Bildts farmhouse is a Kop-hals-rompboerderij but with the house and neck turned to form an L-shaped farm and the cows face the middle aisle. The name id derived from this type being concentrated around the province of
het Bildt. •
Kop-rompboerderij (head-rump farmhouse) are found in Friesland and western Groningen. These farmhouses are similar to the
kop-hals-rompborderijen, but the house is joined directly to the barn. • the Ameland and Terschelling development •
Oldambtster boerderij, found in the Oldambt region of eastern
Groningen (province). The house roof is usually tiled, while the barn roof is thatched. •
Stolpboerderij, known as
Haubarg in German. These consist of a square,
pyramid roof building. The roofs of these buildings may be fully tiled or part tiled, part thatched. The house part of these buildings may present an ornate facade. This type of building is found in
North Holland. •
Stelpboerderij are very similar to the stolpboerderij but are rectangular and are found in Friesland. Willem loreweg 30.jpg|A
kop-hals-rompboerderij in Kollum,
Friesland, Netherlands Arnhem los hoes.jpg|A
loes hoes boerderij at the
Netherlands Open Air Museum,
Arnhem. Stolpboerderij Madurodam.jpg|
Stolpboerderij Stjelp.jpg|
stelpboerderij SchildwoldeRM513586.jpg|
Oldambtster boerderij. The house is narrower than the barn, the ridges are in-line. Boerderij Zuiderdiep527 Valthermond.jpg|
Krukboerderij Bakkeveen kop-rompboerderij Houtwal 14.JPG|
Kop-rompboerderij in Opsterland Overzicht rechter zijgevel en achtergevel - Rouveen - 20532687 - RCE.jpg|Dwarsdeelboerderij Boerderij2_Schaapskuilweg2.jpg|Hallenhuisboerderij Boerderij van dwarshuistype - Oostgevel - RM 510620 01.JPG|Dwarshuistype
Poland •
Mennonite settlers from
The Netherlands settled in the Vistula Delta near
Gdańsk (then part of Prussia) in the 16th century, where they built housebarns. Some moved to the Russian Empire, and later North America, where they continued this practice.
Switzerland •
Chalet in the Swiss Alps • Engadinerhaus (German) a stone, three-storey house type in the
Engadin,
Vinschgau, and valleys in the
Swiss Alps and part of
Tyrol (state), Austria. See
Commons:Engadinerhaus Ukraine •
Mennonite settlers from
Prussia immigrated to South Russia, now Ukraine, beginning in the 1770s. Many of them settled in reserves near what is now
Zaporizhia and continued the practice of living in street villages and building housebarns, some of which are still extant today. Most of the Mennonites in this region immigrated to Canada and the United States beginning in the 1870s, where they continued to build housebarns.
United States Housebarns are more prevalent in areas that were settled by German immigrants. There are twelve historic housebarns in the United States. It is one of two remaining buildings of its construction in the United States. •
Wilhelm Pelster House-Barn in
New Haven, Missouri •
Jacob Weins House-Barn •
Peter Wittmayer House-Barn •
Wilhelm Moser House-Barn •
Alex Seitaniemi Housebarn •
John and Kate Merkwan Rubblestone House-Barn •
Martin and Wilhelminn Grosz House-Barn •
Kliese Housebarn •
Enoch Hofer House-Barn •
Wihelm Ziegler House-Barn •
Das Haus, Einhaus und Der Stall, Niagara Falls (Bergholz), NY ==See also==