Oven House from Oberwangen Berne 1796
by Michelle Meenawong
Title
Oven House from Oberwangen Berne 1796
Artist
Michelle Meenawong
Medium
Photograph - Metal Print
Description
Oven House
from Oberwangen Berne 1796
This oven house was part of a licensed milling plant comprising the mill, a farmhouse, a barn and a granary.
Risk of fire averted
The oven house was thus a part of a functional unit: there, next to where the farmers delivered the grain, the flour could also be periodically baked into bread by the miller or his lessor. The separate baking facilities reduced the risk of fire in the main house whilst allowing good control in a masonry building.
Multifunctional
As is often the case in such ancillary buildings, the oven house from Oberwangen served several purposes. Fruit was dried and the laundry tub’s water was heated here.
Beginning and End
The keystone in the centre of the door arch bears a faintly painted date of 1796, no doubt the building year. The decorative forms and heraldry chiselled into the sandstone has weathered badly in the intervening 200 years and crumbled away. In 1976 the oven house was re-erected in Ballenberg.
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