Flintlock style

Steinbloß-style farm near Neumarkt im Mühlkreis

The stone castle style , also known as stone castle construction, is a typical architectural style of old three-sided farms in Upper Austria's Mühlviertel . The architectural style is incorrectly referred to as the Bloßstein style . The core area is the Lower Mühlviertel, especially in Ottenschlag numerous farmhouses were renovated in the late 1990s. The architectural style can still be found in many places in the Mühlviertel, even though the facades of many old farmhouses have been modernized, thus covering the stone castle style. The architectural style has recently been restored during renovations.

The stone castle construction was not only used for farmhouses, but also other peasant buildings, such as chapels , show this style.

Construction

The farmhouses are built from granite field stones, the larger stones remained unplastered. This gave the facades the typical look of light and dark areas. The reason for this construction method was that in this area, the Austrian granite and gneiss highlands ( Bohemian Massif ), lime was rare and expensive, and the farmers therefore inserted larger stones into the masonry and did not plaster it. The difference to other buildings is that the stones were treated exclusively by farmers and not by stonemasons .

In earlier times the houses were thatched .