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An Old Frisian farmhouse (german: Altfriesisches Bauernhaus) is a small unit farmhouse (''Wohnstallhaus'') that combined the farmer's living area and animals' stalls, and had limited space for storing harvest products. It was widely distributed across the
North German Plain
The North German Plain or Northern Lowland (german: Norddeutsches Tiefland) is one of the major geographical regions of Germany. It is the German part of the North European Plain. The region is bounded by the coasts of the North Sea and the Balti ...
until the middle of the 17th century and was the forerunner of the
Gulf house
A Gulf house (german: Gulfhaus), also called a Gulf farmhouse (''Gulfhof'') or East Frisian house (''Ostfriesenhaus''), is a type of byre-dwelling that emerged in the 16th and 17th centuries in North Germany.Vollmer, Manfred et al., ''Landscape ...
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Gallery
File:Exterieur overzicht kop-hals-romp boerderij - 20000310 - RCE.jpg, Exterior of a headneck trunk farm
File:Overzicht voorgevel en rechter zijgevel, boerderij - Boksum - 20346097 - RCE.jpg, View of facade and right side wall, farm at Boksum, Netherlands
File:Exterieur KOP, HALS EN ROMPBOERDERIJ - Burum - 20315014 - RCE.jpg, House and barn, Burum, Netherlands
File:Voorgevel album 3, blz. 76 - Follega - 20467952 - RCE.jpg, Frisian farmhouse, Netherlands
File:Kop-hals-rompboerderij Twijzel.JPG, Head-neck-trunk farm, Twijzel, Netherlands
See also
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Old Frisian longhouse
Old Frisian longhouses were, as the name indicates, long-bodied houses which can be found in the Dutch province Friesland. This type of house had more than two different parts behind or beside each part. It is the forerunner of the " Head-Neck-Bo ...
References
Vernacular architecture
Architecture in Frisia
Agriculture in Germany
Houses in Germany
Farmhouses
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