A friend of mine posted this on her blog... any ideas?
http://shouston.blogspot.com/2008/04/where...th-is-this.html
http://shouston.blogspot.com/2008/04/where...th-is-this.html
Anyone recognize this place?
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Roger Bunting
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Hmm, nope, sorry, I haven\'t the foggiest.
banzaiduke
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I\'m not 100% but it looks like a town in the Rhone valley i visited ,any help?
mrrocknroll
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By the look of the buildings Id be guessing at some eastern European country built in the early 1800\'s. A guess though.
demonherald
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Ask Dragonsreach he used to live there...:beer:
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Those are half timber frame houses, typical of the German Bauer class. You\'ll find those sorts of houses all over the place in rural Germany. However, because this construction style is so traditionally German, you will find it everywhere German colonies were established. This means you\'ll find it used everywhere in the US that Germans settled. You\'ll find it in Czechoslovakia, Poland ... in fact pretty much all of eastern Europe. I also wouldn\'t be surprised at all to find it all over the place in Argentina, where sizeable German colonies had been established.
So, where could those particular houses be located? Pretty much anywhere.
The blog said it could be in Alsace-Lorraine. That could be. That region had gone back and forth between Germany and France for centuries. The Alsatian portion of the region are ethnically German, although most speak French.
So, where could those particular houses be located? Pretty much anywhere.
The blog said it could be in Alsace-Lorraine. That could be. That region had gone back and forth between Germany and France for centuries. The Alsatian portion of the region are ethnically German, although most speak French.
Einion
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My first thought, before reading any of the other responses, was Germany. Not because of the half-timbering but because of the pitch of the roof. But I think this could be true of a great many places in Central and Eastern Europe. I\'m willing to bet that you\'d see something very similar in Poland and Austria, just to name two.
Doesn\'t look like it, but this could also be a folk village or tourist trap, purpose-built to be \'olde worlde\'
Einion
Doesn\'t look like it, but this could also be a folk village or tourist trap, purpose-built to be \'olde worlde\'
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Matt Cexwish
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I study Architecture and I am pretty sure those are from Germany, more precisely from about 1850...
Fachwerkhäuser... The Roofs seem to have some purpose, maybe they are build to make Snow melt more easy... so maybe they´re from the region of the Alps...
Fachwerkhäuser... The Roofs seem to have some purpose, maybe they are build to make Snow melt more easy... so maybe they´re from the region of the Alps...
Gilvan Blight
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I think it\'s part of Bogenhafen. Looks like the corner of Langen Strasse and the Haffenstrasse. The building on the right should be the home of the Stevedores\' Guild.
Roger Bunting
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I may not know where that picture is of but I know what you\'re talking about, Gilvan. lol
Theomar Pius
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I don\'t know, but I like it, and will use it as inspiration.
veggiemanuk
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I asked the Wife being as she is German and stidied Fachwerkhäuser in shool, those are not Fachwerkhäuser, the roofs are to sheer. Fachwerkhäuser are more squat like. But you are right about the roofs having a purpose, they are designed for areas with high snow fall, they prevent the snow accumulating which with the volume of snow expected in these areas would collapse normal roofs.
She doent feel that they are German but possibly Norwegian.
Matt Cexwish
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Fachwerkhäuser is basically the way they are constructed, it means that there is this wooden pattern on the fassade... it is for sure a Fachwerkhaus... not one of the traditional ones (yeah, they are normally wider...), but if you think about the Snow thing it makes sense that the roofs are that steep...
Well I\'m from Austria and I believe this is not an Austrian village, but I don\'t know every corner of Austria. I would think its a village in Elsass region. French/German border.
The houses here in the alps are mainly made of wood and have a very different look from those Fachwerkhäuser.
Here\'s a typical Austrian alpine farmhouse:
The houses here in the alps are mainly made of wood and have a very different look from those Fachwerkhäuser.
Here\'s a typical Austrian alpine farmhouse:
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