Half-timbered town

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A half-timbered town is a city with a historic town center in which the half-timbered house dominates.

Germany

Freudenberg

Despite the devastating destruction of World War II and the post-war period, over a million half-timbered buildings have survived in Germany .

Half-timbered towns can be found above all along the German Half-timbered Road , which has existed since 1990 , a 3000 km long system of holiday roads that stretches from the Elbe to Lake Constance . It is currently divided into seven sections that run through Lower Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt , Saxony , Hesse , Thuringia , Franconia and Baden-Württemberg .

Half-timbered towns can also be found in Rhineland-Palatinate , North Rhine-Westphalia , Bavaria , Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

Before the devastating war damage, Frankfurt am Main , Hildesheim , Braunschweig and Kassel were among the most important half-timbered towns in Germany .

Switzerland

Stone at the Rhein

In Switzerland there are half-timbered towns like Stein am Rhein with the typical Alemannic half-timbered houses .

Austria

In Vorarlberg there are also the half-timbered communities with the typical Alemannic half-timbering.

France

Ribeauvillé

In Alsace there are still many half-timbered towns such as Ribeauvillé and Riquewihr and parts of Colmar and Strasbourg with the typical Alemannic and Franconian half-timbering .

In Normandy and Champagne there are a large number of typically French half-timbered houses. Here, however, the two world wars of the 20th century resulted in great losses. Closed cityscapes can still be found in Rouen and Troyes as well as some smaller towns.

England

Chester

The medieval residential architecture in England was strongly characterized by half-timbered buildings, which often have strong similarities with the French.

Numerous English cities still have fine examples; medieval half-timbered towns are u. a. the northwestern English Chester or the northern English York .

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