Porch house
Buildings with an arbor on at least one side are referred to as “ porch houses ” . Most often this arbor has its own gable and resembles a portico . Most of them are buildings in rural areas. These buildings are often built from half-timbered houses , even if the "arbor gable" is sometimes supported by brick columns or pillars . This type of construction has spread particularly in the area east of the Elbe. There are or were corresponding architectural monuments in today 's Kaliningrad Oblast (the former northern East Prussia ), in Poland (so in East Prussia, West Prussia , Posen , Silesia and other places), in Brandenburg , Mecklenburg , Thuringia but also in Schleswig-Holstein and isolated on the Rhine .
In a broader sense, this expression denotes a special building element that is clearly visible from the outside, so that every house that has a particularly large vestibule or a vestibule emphasized by its own gable is colloquially referred to as a vestibule house. However, when it comes to a palace , a villa , or a classical building, the term portico is more likely to be used, while “Vorlaube” is reserved for the more rustic buildings.
Since the distinctive vestibule is an external structural element, the actual building can be of different types. As a farm building, the forge was often provided with a vestibule on one side of the gable, so that although it was protected by a roof, it was still possible to repair wagons or soles in the open air .
In the northeast, for example East Prussia, there were several Vorlaubenhaus variants that were based on the Central German Ernhaus . In the actual porch house, the arbor on the eaves side was built in front of the hallway or Ern and thus emphasized the main entrance. This had the additional advantage that in the event of a fire, the falling straw of the roof covering was diverted away from the main entrance and the route to the outside remained safe for longer. In the gabled house, the arbor was located in front of the extended living side of the house, originally without reference to an outside door. The arbor of the corner arbor house ran along one eaves side from the gable of the living side to the hallway. The door to the hallway was usually located on the narrow side of the arbor. In this latter variant, the arbor was not specially emphasized by its own gable.
Examples of the Vorlaubenhaus in West and East Prussia were according to Dehio (1993):
- In Palschau ( Palczewo ) : Two lap wood buildings with arches from 1800.
- In Marienau ( Marynowy ) : A building by master builder Peter Loewen from 1803 (No. 55), another from 1804 (No. 42).
- In Klettendorf ( Klecie ) : A particularly large and decorated porch, built around 1750 by master builder Georg Pöck.
- In Hagenau ( Chojnik ) : A porch around 1650 (?, 1993 No. 81 and 86), as well as another in decay and several block buildings.
Because of its supposedly original character and its presumed regional origin, the motif of the Vorlaubenhaus was often used in the Third Reich and included in a prominent place in settlement projects. For example, at the Danziger Dorf settlement from 1936 in Kannenstieg, a district of Magdeburg , built as a community center in 1938. The arbor of this " Danzig Vorlaubenhaus " was, however, provided with walls after the war.
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- ↑ Die Siedlung Danziger Dorf (1936) ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Facts about the Kannenstieg district of Magdeburg
