Wegerhaus
A Wegerhaus is a residential and warehouse for a Weger (road keeper) in the parlance of Switzerland and regionally in Germany. Nowadays way houses have lost their usefulness. Instead of Wegerhäuser, larger systems such as workshops ( road maintenance depots ) are used, which mostly serve exclusively for the storage of machines and building materials.
history
In the German dictionary of the Brothers Grimm from 1854 it is mentioned as the "house of the road warden" and is located under the Berninahöhe . Berthold Auerbach already mentioned these houses in 1843 in his Black Forest village stories. Many of these Wegerhäuser were built over 100 years ago when traffic increased and the roads needed to be maintained. Large construction machines were still unknown, so Weger houses with tool stores and magazines for building materials stood at the roadside at regular intervals. They also served the towmakers as protection from the cold and rain and as an apartment. Wegerhäuser were particularly important along the pass roads , for example on the Splügen Pass . These were used all year round by Wegern and their families. The development and expansion of this infrastructure took place over decades. Today Weger houses are only rarely used. Trucks, snow plows, excavators and other machines make Wegerhäuser lose their usefulness. Nowadays, instead of many Wegerhouses, there are only individual larger workshops that cover larger areas at short intervals.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wegerhaus. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 27 : W – way [twittering] -zwiesel - (XIII). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1922 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
- ^ Berthold Auerbach : Black Forest village stories . Volume 10, Chapter 54 ( excerpt from the Gutenberg project)
- ↑ Carmelia Maissen: Road: from Wegerhaus for type house . In: Hochparterre: magazine for architecture and design . April 6, 2017.