Hello,
I have this from a text on the Biosphere Entlebuch, describing types of traditional hut that still dot the landscape. Can anyone clarify Turbehüttli, Torfhütten, Streuehütten and Tristen?
An manchen Orten stehen noch Turbehüttli (Torfhütten), Streuehütten und Tristen, die zum Landschaftsaspekt beitragen und an die frühere Nutzung der Moore erinnern.
Many thanks for any help.
Turbehüttli, Torfhütten: sod huts.
Streuehütten : straw huts.
Tristen: piles of straw.
Tom
Thanks so much Tom, happy new year.
Put the words into Google images for a visual reference. The Tristen have a distinct shape and can still be seen in various places today.
Couple of other things actually, what is a 4-Schilt roof?
Die traditionellen Alpgebäude weisen ein sogenanntes 4-Schilt-Dach auf.
Also, what is a Spycher for storing cheese?
Spycher zur Lagerung von Käse
Thanks for any pointers!
Tristen: Streue or Heu (first cut) / Emd (second and later cuts)
Streue for spreading out in the stables (straw)
Heu (hay) for feeding the cattle
Swissbred, son of a farmer
Thank you SwissBred, don't suppose you ever heard of a 4-Schilt-Dach or a Spycher?
Spycher is a storage room or house. In some areas, they look like miniature copies of the main house.
Indeed, simple a storage place.
Tom
Haha, that's why normally people in past made a covenant about common language. I asked my boss, he is Swiss from Luzern*, and quite committed to researching traditional architecture, he said that he never heard for it. We agreed that probably it means a roof where slopes go down to every one of four walls, i.e. hipped roof.
If I found the same text as you are reading, the picture of such house is where that text is:
*but Luzerner have often bad opinion about Entlebuch