Farmhouse kitchen

Office referred etymologically a warm living room ( the word is related to Engl. Stove ' oven '). The facility was formerly often the most important room in an apartment or a house and recorded originally by a smoke-free heating by a warm air heating or a Hinterladen oven ( stove ) from. Especially in the winter, the room was often the only heated room and therefore the principal place of residence of the residents. Depending on the circumstances, the room a separate living room, a kitchen or part of a stately apartments ( spatial sequence ) be.

In Central Europe, dive bars in urban areas more frequently since the 13th century.

In a traditional farmhouse, the room was next to the representation - here were valuable possessions, such as books issued, and was received in this restaurant - as a work space. Because it was warm in the room, the sick were housed here and in particularly cold winter nights sometimes the chickens. Its development was also strongly associated with the development of the tiled stove.

As well as the living room and sleeping room for soldiers is referred to in a barracks.