North-Frisian Farm House [Revisit]

About ten weeks after my first visit to the abandoned farm house together with my wife and my mother-in-law, my friend Nordgriller and I decided to pay another visit to this beautiful place as part of a tour along the west coast of Northern Germany. On that particular tour, we also visited an abandoned HAWK site as well as a Special Ammunition Site (a nuclear weapons depot) - so more posts about this particular tour will follow.

It was the first location of the day, and the drive across the beautiful Northern German countryside on a sunny Sunday morning at the beginning of march was fairly uneventful, as was the way onto the site of our location.
Once there, we unpacked our stuff, smoked a cigarette and waited for three more guys that wanted to go on the tour with us.
As soon as they arrived, we made our way into the house, wich was easy because the back door was still unlocked and open wide.
We found that everything was in exactly the same spot and condition as almost three months earlier. It seemed as though no one had been there in the time since. I know that this was not the case because I know of other people who had visited the place in the past - but I was really happy to find everything in its place. It showed me that there are still some people who treat the locations with the proper respect and that are true to the ideals of the hobby!

But before I get too carried away, I'll show you some of the photos I took there that day.
As always, please visit my website for more!

Oh, an important information about the location that I got just a couple of days ago: Apparently all the access ways have been sealed and there is no way to get in.

North-Frisian Farm House W.

This type of building is the typical farm house for a peninsula in the region of North Frisia in Germany.
The design originally was brought to the area by West Frisian immigrants during the 16th century.
For centuries, farmers have lived in these houses together with the farm animals. The German name for this type of house (not disclosed to conceal the location) results from its function to store hay.
In its original form, this type of house had a middle part where the straw was stored after the thrashing of the crops. Around this center part the living rooms were arranged, as well as the sleeping rooms for the farmhands, and the stables for horses, cows and small animals.
The hay was stored under the roof above the stables while the crop was stored above the living rooms.
Characteristic of this type of farm house is the large thatched roof, oftentimes with a height of up to 15-20 meters.

This particular farm house was built around 1800 and was abandoned about 10 years ago. It is not as large as the original type mentioned before, but still has most of the features of the original design. Living rooms, kitchen, sleeping rooms and stables all are under the same roof, and the space under the roof is used for hay storage.

There is no further  historical information about this location.

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