A byre-dwelling is a farmhouse in which the living quarters are combined with the livestock and/or grain barn under the same roof. In the latter case, the building is also called a housebarn in Americ
A reconstruction
Bregenzerwälderhaus in Bezau, Vorarlberg (Austria)
Modern era byre-dwelling in Bavaria (Eckersdorf, Upper Franconia), list of cultural monuments of Bayern, no. D-4-72-131-24.
The Black Forest house is a byre-dwelling that is found mainly in the central and southern parts of the Black Forest in southwestern Germany. It is characterised externally by a long hipped or half-hi
Byre-dwelling
…ground floors occurred in the northeast of Baden-Württemberg in the 15th century. They were described as Pastor Mayer houses (Pfarrer-Mayer-Häuser). The Black Forest house is probably a more recent development of a byre-dwelling, whereby the functions (especially on hillsides) were also divided over two floors. Likewise…
The farm of Vogtsbauernhof in the eponymous open-air museum
House of a Black Forest peasant farmer in Baden around 1900
Schematic longitudinal section through a Black Forest farmhouse. Key: Sonneneinstrahlung im Sommer = "direction of sun's rays in summer", Sonneneinstrahlung im Winter = "direction of sun's rays in winter", Heuvorräte/Fahrzeuge = "hay stores / vehicles", Schlafräume = "bedrooms", Werkstätten = "workshops", Holzvorräte - "wood stores", Wohnen/Küche = "living area and kitchen", Vieh = "cattle", Keller = "cellar"
Black Forest kitchen with a cocklestove, painting by Georg Saal, 1861