Manning's Authentic German Hausbarn
 

In Manning, we went to visit a  real 350 year old German hausbarn  that was built in Schleswig - Holstein, Germany in 166O. The hausbarn was given as a gift to the Manning Hausbarn-Heritage Park, was disassemled in Germany, and shipped to  Manning in 1990 by ship, train, and truck.  It was reassembled in 1999.  Originally it was called a '' bauernhaus,'' and  both people and animals lived in the hausbarn together.

  
 



 

This is a room in the hausbarn that the people slept in.  They lived in part of the house, and animals lived in the other part.  That's how it got the name "hausbarn."

This is the bedroom in the German hausbarn where the family  lived, and they all slept in the same bed.

The Manning Hausbarn was built in the 1600's, and was taken apart in 1990 and brought to Manning.   It is an awesome place to vist.  We went to it.  It is a great place to get good information about how people lived long ago!

This is a picture of our class in front of a special window made for the hausbarn that has the dates of when it was built and when it was brought to Manning.  We love going on a lot of field trips!

Here we are sitting in front of the German hausbarn.  We learned  a lot when we came here.  It was really fun and cool!

We got the Hausbarn from Germany in 1990. It was a gift.  It was built in 1660.  It was  brought to Manning in 1990 and put together in 1999.  It was shipped in 1996, and it is 350 years old. It has a high roof.  It was thatched with hollow reeds.

The fireplace had no chimney so the smoke went out the heart holes and diamonds at the top doors. They cooked  in the hearth and got heat from it.

These are the animal stalls!  This  is were the animals were fed and where they lived and sleep. One part of the hausbarn was for animals, and another part was for people. Isn't it amazing that the animals sleep in the same building with the people?  We were very suprised that they slept with the animals in their house. There were cows and pigs that slept with them in a separate part of the Hausbarn. 

The rafters in the Hausbarn were black because there was no chimney for the smoke to go out. The smoke rose to the top of the Haubarn and went out little holes cut out  there shaped like diamonds and hearts.  Only one rafter had to be replaced by an old telephone pole.  The ceiling was very  high.

This is Freda.  She is showing us how to thatch.  She gives people tours at the hausbarn.  She is a nice lady.  The thatch came from reeds grown around the north coast of Germany.

They thatched the hausbarn with hollow reeeds from the north coast of of Germany.  They tied bundles of reeds together with wire.  They used a wooden paddle to make the ends of the reeds even. They put the thatch on the roof and they wired it so it would stay there. There are 6,500 bundles of thatch and twenty bundles of reeds.  They made some more thatch if the roof got dirty. 

In Germany it was a tradition that if the builders did a good job building the hausbarn, then when the frame was finished, they would hang the wreath up, and if the builders did a bad job they would hang up a dead fish. After they hung the wreath, they had a builders' party because they did a good job.   This is the wreath that was hung at the Hausbarn in 1990 for the builder's party.

This window is a special window. It was made especially for the Hausbarn. The dates say 1660 and 1990 because that was when it was built and when it was brought to America.      Claus Hachmann's initials were  etched  into the window because he was the German  man who gave the hausbarn to Manning.