An old Dutch farm

These are some photos of one of my favourite preserved old farms in my region. The farm is called Lammerinkswönner and is located just east of Enschede, The Netherlands.

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 35mm, ISO200, f5.6, 1/50s}

It was built in 1775 by Koert Lammerink for his parents. Lammerinkswönner loosely translates as "the people that live on the yard called Lammerink". "Lammerink" is a very typical family name for this region (Twente), it originally means "Lambert's kin".

Later, such names were used to indicate a farm and and its yard. You then got your name from the farm's name, not the other way around, so if you moved, you got a different name; people were identified by the place they lived and the soil they tended rather than by the name of their ancestors. It's a real pain for genealogists.

In this photo you see some of the basic construction of the farm:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 45mm, ISO200, f5.6, 1/50s}

An oak beam structure was built on top of sandstone foundations. The spaces between the beams were filled with woven reed, and then sealed with a mixture of loam and straw. As more money became available, this would be replaced with bricks.

The loam-and-straw isolates well but it also attracts insects like bees who like to build their nests in it, destroying the wall in the process:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 55mm, ISO200, f5.6, 1/40s}

No nails or screws were used building the oak structure, only mortise-and-tenon joints:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 55mm, ISO400, f5.6, 1/40s}

The size of the door tells you people were less tall in those days:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 42mm, ISO200, f2.8, 1/80s}

On the yard there's a barn, built around 1750, typical for the region:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 28mm, ISO200, f5.6, 1/60s}

There's also a Dutch barn (we don't call it that, we call it kapschuur) on the yard. Here's a detail of its construction, again mortise-and-tenon:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 55mm, ISO200, f5.6, 1/80s}

It houses some very old carts:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 42mm, ISO200, f5.6, 1/50s}

For those who like B&W:

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^{This is a repost of older photos; my pool of new photos was reset to zero for technical reasons and is still regenerating.}