Old Half-timbered Houses in HH-Harburg by Kushelkitten
The house in the picture above is one of roughly a dozen Fachwerkhaüser (half-timbered houses) that survived the Allied bombings in WW2 in Harburg. There is an undetonated bomb (danergous parts removed) in my backyard which attests to this. However that isnt what makes them so interesting. At one time these dozen houses were located closer to the Elbe near the Harburger Schloss. When the lord that lived in the Schloss decided to widen his garden so the owners of the houses were forced to move them.
The houses were one by one deconstucted and the parts numbered for rebuilding in the location they are now. The problem occurred when while the parts were numbered they didnt identifiy which part belonged to which house so its possible that not all the houses are put together correctly.
Today the houses host a number of restaurants (see my entry on "Restaurant Row) as well as the Frauenkulturehaus and one serves as the apartment house in which I reside.
To get to Harburg take the S3 or S31 to Harburg Rathaus exit Neue Str.
