Paul Werner, Muenchen D
URBANISATION OF RUSTIC ARCHITECTURAL CULTURE IN UPPER BAVARIA UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF HISTORICITY IN THE 19th CENTURY
Rustic architectural culture is best presented in Bavaria in the period between 1500 and 1900. i.e. during four centuries. The oldest rustic house dates back to 1515 while the youngest from our list of monuments belong to the period around the second World War.
- The most influential fashion tendency was the one of massive building - many rich peasants thought they were looked upon like hicks if the lived in the usual wooden houses and as a consequence of this they all aimed at living in a notable stone house.
The beginning of high fashion in the cities around 1850, the building of summer-resort mansions in the country, also served as a pattern in urban bbuilding when whole cities were reconstructed after the great city fires occuring around 1815. Most of the building was done in the historical style.
Conclusion: a series of unusually rchly shaped buildings with nicely balanced colour stucco are much more widespread than the boring, uninventive, poor massive buildings with modest rustication or framed windows. Some farm.houses are so fantastically and diversely built that they can prorabably be considered among the most beutiful 19th Century farm-houses in the world.