Threshing floor

The title of this article is ambiguous. For further meaning see Tenne (disambiguation)

An open-air threshing floor is usually round, like here on Santorini

Historic malt tennis court

Tenne (in northern Germany also Lohdiele , Loodiele (after T. Storm ), in Switzerland called the Tenn ) describes the paved floor of a barn , on which in earlier times the grain was threshed with flails after the harvest . Here the chaff was separated from the grain by means of wind sifters .

The threshing floor is often made of tamped clay , but also of concrete or wood .

Expressions

In the malting industry , the flat ground on which the green malt was spread out in so-called heaps was called the threshing floor. On the threshing floor, the green malt had to be turned daily with malt shovels and rakes. This labor-intensive way of working is now usually done fully automatically in the germination box .

On farms , the threshing floor is often the part of the building connecting the farm and living quarters, where the grain was threshed in winter.

history

The first threshing races were in the open air. They usually consisted of pounded clay or were paved with stones. Often they were covered with towels to catch the grains. They could be round or rectangular. There were various techniques such as threshing with threshing sticks, threshing sleds or by riding cattle or other cattle. The wind was used to separate the chaff from the grain or fronds were used. Threshing tennis like this existed in southern Europe until the 20th century. In Northern and Central Europe, due to the inconsistent weather, the threshing floors were mostly moved to the barn.

Web links

Commons : Tenne  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Tenne  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Georg Hentschel:  threshing floor. In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen, Stefan Alkier (Eds.): The Scientific Biblical Lexicon on the Internet (WiBiLex), Stuttgart 2006 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The wall anchor - building maintenance in North Friesland, Dithmarschen and fishing. Published by the interest group Baupflege Nordfriesland & Dithmarschen eV Volume 3/4, December 2004, 23rd volume, page 10. Online: Der Maueranker Volume 3/4 December 2004 23rd volume ( Memento from January 11, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Three farmhouses, a granary and their stories ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Historical .
4. ↑ city-map North Friesland region: Sights - The Haubarge of the Eiderstedt landscape .
5. ^ Albert Neuburger : Die Technik des Altertums , reprint of the original edition from 1919, ISBN 3-8262-1400-5 , pp. 89-90.