I stroll through my town and suddenly I find myself again prior to Peter's house. Peter and I were neighbors for years. Actually, we had no real neighbors, for I have indeed lived in the house next to Peter's house, but Peter himself has not lived in his house. Peter does not live in his house, he builds it. I am at that time, the end of 2003, moved next to the house of Peter, as he has already built his house. Now it's soon the end of 2008 and Peter is still building his house. The reasons, of course, and that good!
Peters house is quite old. Peter's house is much as the oldest timber-framed house far and wide, with "far and wide" I mean granted the Palatinate and a little bit further. From when it is, I can not exactly say, although I did it to me by Peter more than once can be explained. It's just too complicated, as I could remember. I believe that the outer walls are in the back of the house the oldest parts. It was then extended upwards a bit, then forward to the street, half-timbered walls were replaced by stone walls, stairs and to be taken down and fitted with windows open corridors. And all this since 14 Century: always here a while and then as a play. And stuck somewhere in there also remains of the previous buildings, which are of course much older. One might say: "Peter's house is on average 532 years old." but that hits the truth again not accurate enough. When I go to the next time Peter, I'll take a pen and write it on everything meticulously. would rehabilitate
Because Peter's house is so old, and because Peter is happy where ever possible, historically accurate, the building also takes a long time. Since are not simply pulled steel beams and drywall walls in front of it. Peter has namely an antique shop and restored furniture - chairs, cabinets and such. And just as carefully as he restored his cabinets, he renovated his house. After all, it is the oldest timber-framed house far and wide, and we live here is not in America, where a 100 year old log cabin is already a historic treasure.
So what does that mean?
Take masonry. Stone walls with plain mortar. Peter says: "People back then are not simply down to the hardware store and have bought bags of cement mortar was expensive and the people were poor.." That makes sense! Peter has seen surviving parts of the wall from this period and studied. Thus he came on it, as it was then made: The people have put stone upon stone, with mortar between them, and then they pushed small quarry stones in the joints to squeeze out as much of the still damp mortar again. The squeezed Mortar was then recycled back, and so you can sit down with a bag of cement a giant wall. Awesome! I would have thought of it. Peter has come on it and has brick walls in his house built like that. So, and otherwise under any circumstances!
Another example, same site: Truss
Peter had ordered a company that knows how to create timber-framed walls. A specialist company, so to speak. The boys then moved on with heavy equipment: Mountains of willow branches for the braided, tons of mud and straw gehächseltes for infill. To this end, a cement mixer to mix straw and clay. A huge spectacle in the Metzgergasse: City leaders made with tourist groups detours, just to show that and to the construction workers are at a little in the way around - great cinema!
Peter had in the meantime quite clever. You could say that he may devour many years all that there is a specialist literature on timber-framed buildings in the Palatinate. In my life I've never met someone who so absorbed in such a topic is so doggedly makes smart. In short - or "not good" as the wife would say of the Heritage Foundation - the company had not done what they had done at the time of the historic building a house: the company built the vertical struts of the truss from the battens. Historically correct but would have been split oak stick. So Peter tries to save what can still be saved, and build the rest of the web of timber in the yard split oak sticks themselves. So, and otherwise under any circumstances!
Woman of the Heritage Foundation is driving the insane. "This is never done!" she says. "I just want to see that at least the outer walls are plastered and painted, otherwise I reiterate the grants!" threatens them. But Peter gather first in peace in the area, leaving the sandstone samples in a pigment mill grind. He fiddles with the natural pigments around for so long until he has inspired the color of the historic plaster seized painting remains to some extent. So, and otherwise under any circumstances! The fact that the painter is not for me hammer out exactly the way he presents it makes him despair. If the woman would be the foundation not previously been so sour, Peter probably would have knocked all the plaster, newly plastered and then painted himself.
Peter used of course not a standard windows from the factory, glued to the glass timber cruising. It is not just for carpenters and ordered windows of Carpenters ausmisst, designs and builds. This has the interested reader can imagine at this point already. Peter researched for each individual construction of his house then the usual type of window in the scientific literature. He carefully made to drawings, and then lets the window by the carpenter to build one. Each window of his house is unique, which is suitable only in the window opening, and only in this construction phase. Even the glass and the material match the surrounds of the windows to the last drop and lead to the last peg. Only in this way, and unlike in any case! And if once hinhaut not exactly sold Peter the appropriate window again and can build something better.
this care I think is great! In New Town were in the 70 years of historical preservation committed crimes for which I now prefer the perpetrators would still be historically correct quartered on the square of four large Kaltblüterpferden alive. About these crimes you will grieve or in 100 years. About the rehabilitation of Peter's house you will speak in New Town in 100 years, yet happy. It does not only put forth a lot, they did so, certainly learned much new about medieval craft techniques. This redevelopment is a monument to Peter. I wish I could take him for once in the arm, and tell him how much I love him for it did. If possible in the presence of women from the Heritage Foundation. Whether you would understand that?
The outer walls and the window of Peter's house is the way finished. Looks really very, very great.
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