Berg house

The Bergisch House ( also Bergischer triad or Bergische construction called ) is a common in Bergisch Land timbered house type. Typical of the half-timbered post and the green shutters (called in the Bergisch shutters ), white door and window frames in conjunction with a black stud and white Lehmgefache, and gray - black slate facades and / or rubble stone pedestals. Often leads up a stone staircase to the front door.

The slate facade served as a weather protection for the compartments and was attached depending on the status and wealth of the owner only on the primary windward side or on all four sides to protect all its compartments to. The slate shows the regional aspect of the house to the geological unit of the Rhenish Massif.

For the farmhouse type (as opposed to the otherwise identical, but slightly larger small town type) is the green half-timbered house door, with separate upper and lower door, another feature of the Bergisch house.

The bergische construction of Homeland Security

In 1900 an attempt was made in the context of homeland security exercise as design of Berg recognized architectural forms to collect, preserve and promote it. It was based not only on the rural farmhouse type, which occurred in the villages in reduced form. Also typical bergische forms such as the grinding -cotta, hammer -cotta or Bleicher house did not come here for the course.

In the Bergisch cities with the exception of the Rhine parts of the former Duchy of Berg marked the wrong heritage battered 2 ½ - to 3 ½ -storey houses from the period 1750 to 1850 with stylistic features of the late Baroque, Rococo and Empire decisively the village. In particular, this bourgeois type in 1903 compared with the Bergische Historical Society suggested by conservationist Paul Clemen as a model and propagated, as it appeared to the modern needs as appropriate. But only in the new residential areas on the outskirts of this type was possible. In the town centers actually incurred already houses in 4 ½ - to 5 ½ storey construction.

At the same time, " Bergische parlors " were established in which traditional furniture has been collected and exhibited. Believers are bergischer design with factory buildings included Otto Schell and Frederick William Bredt.

Beispielbauten

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