Barn

As a barn ( in southern Germany is also spoken by scouring ) refers to an agricultural building used for storage of various resources. The barn is now used in most cases as a covered workspace for detail determinable agricultural activities. Another regionally common, especially in southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland designation for the barn is barn or barn. In English-speaking countries such buildings are referred to as neighbors. The delineation of this agricultural farm building in the Anglican language area to the barn but is different. Etymologically, the name is derived from the Old High German barn scuginna ( = shed, shelter ).

Current usage

Barns are primarily the storage and backup of agricultural inputs and products produced. In terms of the storage function to be comparable with storage buildings. The barn will also be used as a weatherproof agricultural work, for example in subsequent applications of agricultural primary production and in the repair of the typical resources ( eg agricultural ).

Historical components

Historically Barns were often divided into several work areas. These are, above all, the standing in the related context terms threshing floor and Banse.

As a dish primarily the work area has been designated, at the, , the grain was threshed stationary before the invention of the combine. Located beside the threshing floor, the so-called Bansen were arranged as storage rooms mostly. Here in particular the still auszudreschenden sheaves of grain were stored and stored the threshed grain in layers. Some of the Bansen the barns were still divided by a partition into several floors.

Structural properties

Barns can be determined in more detail according to the function and construction according to certain criteria. As a business building they can be, for example, distinguished from the barn. Thus, the barns are what the building materials mostly in terms of simpler construction than the rest of the building of houses. Characteristic in this area is mainly that of the background of the hall floor usually consisted of former times only from rammed earth. In most cases, large buildings gates were created to provide vehicles with the ability to traverse the barn in Einreichtungsbetrieb. The latter property is still preserved and due to the strong technicality with some large-scale agricultural machinery almost mandatory. These barn doors are designed for older buildings in general, two leaves or sliding gate. In today's time, especially roll-up doors are used due to the interior design and functionality but that can be loaded and contracted in the vertical guide rails. The gates are employed in the opposite end walls, regardless of the roof arrangement ( gable or eaves side ), in order to ensure passage through the machine. In this case, is spoken by a drive-through barn. On a slope is usually waived. Here a flat driveway in a second optional Barn level is possible for it. In some regions, the barns were also across mobile and on a gable end a so-called high drive was applied on the second level could be driven.

In individual cases, attics are present in barns. This is especially true when combined farm buildings, where a barn is parallel to the barn passage on the entire barn length integrated into the barn. The loft of a barn is, depending on the use of hay - ground, straw or grain ground floor.

A modified due to the arrangement physiognomic designation are called field barns. They are mainly in grassland -dominated landscape areas a defining element of the landscape and serving (ed), among others, the placement of mown hay or straw in a weatherproof storage room off the Hofgrundstückes.

In addition to the arrangement of barns as a single building on scattered parcels, there are also so-called barn area. These are areas where barns were built in a physiognomic contiguous corridor away from the villages. This was done out in the past from the impending danger that potential fires could pull neighboring premises or hamlet or entire villages affected.

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Barn area in Kremmen

Historic barn, Arkansas

Old barn in the NSG Holy Sea - Heupen

Barn in Spreetal -Neustadt

Old half-timbered barn in Rethwisch

Barn in the UK

Sheep barn on the island of Texel

High ride combined barns and stables building at Rhönhof

Two barns ( barn ) in Leon Stein, community Grünburg