Post house
Post house is the name given to the northern and central European houses of early history that were built using the so-called post construction. The post house replaced the even older hut construction in the Neolithic .
The standing construction elements were sunk into the ground up to a meter. The open areas between the posts were treated with either lehmverputztem wattle connected from hazel and willow or logs. In the form of the Germanic long houses , communal buildings up to 80 m long and 7 m wide were built in a single-aisle arrangement. In addition to houses and stables , there were pit huts half-sunk into the ground as workrooms and storage cellars. Even churches were built in post construction. Wide, ship-shaped, three-aisled houses were popular with the Normans and Saxons .
The primary disadvantage of the post construction was the rot from direct contact of the posts with the ground. Post houses therefore lasted a maximum of 20 to 30 years. Therefore post pits are usually the only building remnants, which in turn play a major role in settlement archeology.
The post house is the forerunner of the half-timbered house in post construction , which has slowly replaced the old construction since the 12th century.