Half-timbered Houses
Half timbered house in Biberach, my birthtown. Photo: July 2011, Ulla Hennig
Those half-timbered houses are can be found all across Germany. Actually there exists a German Half-Timbered House Road, which is more than 2000 km long and stretches the Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Hesse, Thuringia, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg (Baden-Württemberg is the state I was born and raised, went to school and to university, before I moved to Berlin in 1981).
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Love the building. I notice when I travel outside the US that most houses and places in Europe have flower boxes; makes even the bigger cities much prettier. Is the bottom floor stone then? Why not stone all the way up? Or timber all the way down?
Yes, the bottom floor is stone. Stone on the bottom and timber following is one of the styles of half-timbered architecture here in Germany. You’ve also got timber all the way down here in Germany.