Threshing floor

Tenne ( North Germany also Lohdiele, Loodiele ( by T. Storm ) of Switzerland called Tenn. ) denotes which fixed floor an barn of which earlier times cereal was threshed by harvest by flails.

The dish is often made of beaten earth, but also concrete or wood are used.

Characteristics

In the maltings were referred earlier to the flat ground on which the green malt was spread in so-called clusters, as threshing floor. On the threshing floor of the green malt had to be turned daily with Malzschaufeln and rakes. This labor-intensive operation is now mostly done automatically in the germination box.

On farms the dish is often the the business and residential area of the yard connecting part of the building in which the grain was threshed in winter.