Two more bits of Dutch countryside
As you can imagine, the Dutch countriside contains many bits. Some of them I photograph.
These two farm buildings are from the same yard as two of the small buildings I posted before. They are stables and living quarters, or both under the same roof:
Olympus Stylus 1s, 45mm, ISO100, f5.6, 1/320s
Olympus Stylus 1s, 65mm, ISO100, f5.6, 1/400s
To save you a click, these are the two smaller buildings I mentioned:
The mystery of that one has been solved: it is a kitchen, an extended version of the bakspieker, which is mostly just an open oven with a small roof over it.
And the potato storage, or tuffelhuuske, as they say here:
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I enjoy comparing the Dutch architecture to the Danish. I suspect the kitchen might be what got called a "summer kitchen" where I grew up in the US... a separate kitchen intended for use in the hot seasons where you didn't want the warmth in the house. And the potato house would be similar to a root cellar or a spring house. Does it have cold water running through? In the US (I grew up in PA) a lot of places had spring houses where there was a natural spring or perhaps near a stream. The cool moving water channeled through the building and being built down into the ground a bit worked like a natural fridge in summer and in winter often helped prevent freezing. Things like milk would be set into the water, if they had it, and the room would be used for storing potatoes, carrots, apples, etc. In many areas the ground would permit digging them deep enough under the house to have a real cellar that would stay cool despite the hot kitchen above, but a lot still used a separate root cellar or spring house, especially if the ground was rocky. They didn't have to dig as deep that way.
Many people from my region of The Netherlands (Twente) feel right at home on Jylland as long as they stay away from the coast.
I live on the east coast a little south of Skagen... way up north. So up here we have a bit less of that style architecture. But it is more similar to the stuff we see when we drive south.
Those old buildings look amazing. Where are they located?
Losser, The Netherlands.
Love the well crafted eye appealing old Dutch buildings.
Amazing structures, it's nice to see historical buildings like this - in the UK very few are left they have all been converted into more modern buildings.
Great pictures! The resolution is fantastic.
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I can see which architecture inspired the designers of Oblivion.
Walking around here will never be the same again 8-).
Beautiful bits of history!