Bohlenstube

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The Bohlenstube in Domstrasse 12 in Nordhausen

Late Gothic plank parlor at Schönfels Castle

In the Middle Ages , the Bohlenstube was often the only heated room in a house in Central Europe . To improve the thermal insulation , the existing rooms on the floor, ceiling and all sides were lined with grooved wooden planks; that is, another room made of wood was built into an existing room, which was structurally separated from the outside. In order not to have to heat up too much room volume, the ceilings were sometimes lowered. Closed air chambers or clay plaster served as a further insulating layer.

The plank room was sometimes decorated with carvings or paintings. Many of these rooms were later plastered, so that today they are no longer recognizable as plank rooms, but they are occasionally discovered when renovating medieval buildings. Examples of preserved plank rooms on castles can be found in the Heidenbau of the Veste Heldburg (the German Castle Museum opened in 2016 ) or at Schönfels Castle .

A medieval stone building in which a heating system existed, such as a plank room with an open fireplace , with a tiled stove or above a black kitchen , very rarely with warm air heating , is often referred to as caminata (Latin: provided with a fireplace ) in contemporary sources or in historical sources Research today known as Kemenate . As Kleinkemenaten in medieval towns small stone Hinterhäuser be referred to the wealthy to larger houses middle-class families (mostly from brandgefährdetem timbered included) containing a Bohlenstube upstairs and in the basement with a fireplace (often at the same time the kitchen) were equipped. Two of around 150 historical examples have been preserved in the old town of Braunschweig, the Jakob-Kemenate (in the core around 1250) and the Kemenate Hagenbrücke (also 13th century), although the plank rooms have not been preserved.

Plank rooms in farmhouses can often be found in the half-timbered houses .

Web links

Commons : Bohlenstube  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• The plank room of the Humpis family of long-distance traders, Marktstrasse 45 in Ravensburg
• The Bohlenstube in interesting facts about the front building »Zur Rosen«

literature

• Frank Hornby, Holger Reinhardt: House building in Thuringia and neighboring regions , Marburg 2002
• Frank Richter, Holger Rode: The plank room of the Meißner house from Schwerzau in the Burgenland district. In: The plank room of the Tetzelhaus in Pirna. Comparative consideration of other buildings in Central Germany. Lippe Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-89918-136-0