Owl hole

The title of this article is ambiguous. To the cave of the same name in Franconia Eulenloch (cave) .

Owl hole (in the gable of a baroque half-timbered house in Bonaforth ) and technical terms. 1: owl hole; 2 rafters; 3: tap bar; 4: front board; 5: roofing; 6: Only this owl hole has a structural peculiarity: The tap bar has a second wooden nail hole at the top without any function.

As Eulenloch , Low German U [h] lenflucht or U [h] enlock are referred to the case of old hip roof buildings , but also with gable roofs , a gable opening below the ridge .

The owl hole, which is too large a gable opening for birds to fly, served as a smoke outlet before the chimney was introduced (see smoke house ). Namely, the owl hole served as an entrance hole for birds such as barn owls (hence the name) and swallows , which were welcome in the house as vermin hunting farm animals. The relationships between the history of building and its function have so far been little researched, apart from a few local collections of examples.

Other names

Other well-known dialect names are Eulsloch (Wetterau), Ihleloch (Baden-Württemberg), Ullenloch (Kassel) and Malejan (Lower Saxony). In Low German , Ulenflucht also stands for twilight , i.e. the time when the owls fly. Uhlenflucht is also the name of a district of the municipality of Hohenfelde in Schleswig-Holstein .

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  Half-hip roof with owl hole

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  Thatched roof with a newer owl hole

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  Two round owl holes in a half-timbered house in Otterndorf

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  Owl hole in the east gable of the Protestant chapel from the 17th century in Bonaforth

Web links

Commons : Owl Hole  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ulenflucht. In: Duden. Retrieved November 25, 2013 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} farmhouse . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 2, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1905, pp.  463–465 .
3. ↑ Eckart Rüsch: Smoke & Owls in Bonaforther Roofs: The Uhlenlöcher. In: http://www.bonaforth.net . 2020, accessed on August 1, 2020 . 
4. ^ Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm: Eulenloch. In: German Dictionary (DWB). Retrieved August 1, 2020 . 
5. ^ Company Fuhrberger Zimmerei Betriebsgesellschaft mbH: craft terms in dialect. In: www.fuhrberger.de. Retrieved August 1, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Reinhard Goltz: Ulenflucht. In: The world. June 11, 2012, accessed November 25, 2013 .