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RE: An old Dutch farm near the Tankenberg (52.323156, 6.963976)
That is an incredible door, alright! I like how they cut that rounded corner to fit the stone. And how it all still fits tight together, without warping or shrinking. And I am a big fan of the cleat latch, just a little piece of wood on a nail. So simple and all that is needed! Very nice!
The kind of engineering I do involves things you can't see at work (IT and elctronics), but (maybe as compensation) I greatly enjoy looking at this sort of old engineering; houses, doors, carts, farming equipment, steam engines, all things of beauty and ingenuity you can just look at in stead of having to visualise abstract models of them inside your head.
And the hand craftsmanship is really something. The skills to get the parts that tight and close to that stone. Really admirable. Today, we think of handwork as "unskilled labor", but there's more skill in that work than I will ever even know.