Haubarg

A Haubarg, rarely Hauberg, is the typical farmhouse of the eiderstedt Peninsula. It came in the late 16th century, together with West Frisian immigrants who brought with them the building type of Gulfhauses, and proved to the late 19th century as a farmhouse.

The word " Haubarg " means a facility for Bergen ( stacking ) of hay. Humans and animals lived for centuries in Haubarg under one roof, albeit in separate rooms.

Construction

Haubarge have a rectangular, square, only the four-post ring Haubarg, floor plan. These are frame buildings, where the house is mainly carried by depending on the size of four, six or eight, in rare cases, no longer extant ten stands, which are connected by longitudinal and transverse beams ( purlins ). This design contributes, among other things, to make the house resistant to natural disasters, especially storms and resulting floods. Even if a storm surge pushing the walls that hold the rack back the roof. The basic structure of the house remains undamaged. This design also facilitated the renewal of the masonry, which began salt out after about 100 years and had to be replaced.

The four stand form a square, in which the straw was stored which was obtained after threshing in the middle of stolp farm. Arranged around it are the Loo, where it was threshed, among other things, living rooms ( Döns ) and Schlafverschläge ( alcove ) for the courtiers, together with the stables for the horses ( Peerboos ), bovine ( Boos ) and the sheep. Most farmers had with his family in his bedroom wall beds ( alcove ) in the so-called " pesel " which was even heated, while the courtiers was warmed only by the cattle and the stored hay and straw. The hay, which gave its name to the type of house, hung over the Boos, while grain stored on the residential part of the house. About the Loo -level are not threshed sheaves of the harvest on a sort of slatted floor. If you did not just harvested, the Loo served as a carriage house.

Another feature is the often 15 or 20 feet high, thatched roof under which the hay is stored for the winter.

Location

As long as the coast guard was still insufficient Haubarge built to protect against flooding due to storm surges on mounds. Until the 18th century Haubarge were built in west-east orientation, then mostly of representation grounds in south-north orientation.

Recent history and contemporary

Haubarge are not rebuilt for about 100 years. As was diked in the era of National Socialism, the then Adolf Hitler polder in Dithmar, there to create a Germanic settlement patterns, the built houses based on the completely atypical for Dithmar Haubarg.

Was there in 1860 still 360 Haubarge, in 2008 only get about 100. Goods Haubarge originally built by the economic expediency, they have become too expensive for their agricultural owners. Especially the thatched roof, which often has 1,000 m², is very expensive in its preservation. Therefore, most farmers from soft to other buildings for their operation. The Haubarge be given to other, mostly foreign owners, without obtaining the facade, but often make the interior to use other generous tags. Individual Haubarge privately owned can also be visited inside.

The best-known historical Haubarg is the Red Haubarg, with 99 windows, near witticism. In addition to a restaurant in the historic rooms, it includes a museum that gives an insight into the life and work of the former inhabitants. The Tofthof in westerhever is one of the few Haubarge set in 2005 still used for agriculture. In the Haubarg The Reap at Oldenswort sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies was born. Another well preserved and open to the public Haubarg is the Mars skipper farm in Kotzebue.

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