Allgäu window
The Allgäu window is a historical type of window that was widespread in southern Germany, especially in the Allgäu . It is a lattice window , often in a standing format, divided into three parts and with horizontally running lattices. Typically, the middle disk is again divided vertically. One of the two halves is designed as a separate small window sash, which can be moved laterally on a wooden groove and is called a ventilation window . The sliding sash enables the room to be ventilated easily without the need to open the entire window sash or with too much rain or snow being driven in when the wind is stronger.
The small ventilation window (and sometimes the entire window) is also known regionally under the term rucker window ( Middle High German rucken means "pushing to move to another place").
This type of window construction has been increasingly abandoned in the course of standardization in the course of the 20th century, as it requires separate work steps from the window manufacturers and sliding windows are insufficiently airtight by today's standards. Occasionally, especially in listed buildings, windows of this type have survived or have been newly made by carpenters .
Individual evidence
- ^ Helmut Gebhard: Farmhouses in Bavaria . Hugendubel, Munich 1999, ISBN 978-3-89631-369-0 , pp. 379 .
- ^ Julia Voigt: Building History Lexicon . 3. Edition. Edition: Elsewhere, 2012, ISBN 978-3-931824-29-7 .
- ^ Matthias Lexer: Middle High German Pocket Dictionary . Hirzel Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-7776-0493-3 .