Allema-state

English translation

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Description

Allema-state. FARMHOUSE situated on a somewhat elevated and originally double-moated site with windbreak, which around the end of the 18th century was transformed from a stins presumably still 14th-century in origin, via an end-16th-century state-like form, into a head-neck-body farmhouse.

Head-neck-body farmhouse.

The head, still 14th-century or older in origin and partly cellared, is constructed from (partly reused) monastery bricks (front and right side gables XIV ?-XVII) and red brick (left side gable; predominantly XIXb-c); the three-sided hipped roof is covered with red and blue tiles; gutter on corbels; wall anchors; chimney; the detailing is, with the exception of the natural stone masonry joints of two 16th-century (?) monastery or cross windows, and traces of a blocked opening with above it a closed slit-like opening (light and gun slit), predominantly 19th-century. The masonry of the head has been lowered to bring head and neck under one roof.

The neck and body, situated in line with the head, are constructed from (reused) monastery bricks and yellow and red brick, and date predominantly from the end of the 18th century; the milk cellar, slightly projecting forward on the right side, has two late-18th-century double windows with glazing bars; the farm section features, among other things, side-longitudinal divided doors and 19th-century stable windows with cast-iron tracery; a barrel-vaulted hipped roof covered with tiles and thatch with owl boards covers the whole; basketwork in the end gables; wall anchors.

The monumental values of the farmhouse lie especially in the development of a medieval defensible stone house of origin via a state-like form to agricultural enterprise - to which functions and building phases reference is made by, among other things, the partly extremely thick walls of monastery bricks (up to 75 cm.) of the partly filled cellar and the primary use of that same material for part of the head, and possibly also the light or gun slit), respectively the masonry joints of the two 16th-century (?) natural stone cross windows and the remains of the double moating with windbreak, and the predominantly end-18th-century farm section.

Beautifully situated head-neck-body farmhouse of general architectural and cultural-historical importance because of:

- its construction and use history which extends (apart from 20th-century repair work) from presumably the 14th to the end of the 19th century, and which is expressed in the various occupancy and use phases and the described building traces;

- the memory of the stins kept alive by the described medieval building traces in the present Allemastate;

- the references to the loss of the defensible character in favour of a state-like building, expressed among other things in the masonry joints of 16th-century (?) natural stone cross windows in the north gable of the head and in the form of the remains of a 16th-century (?) originally double moating with windbreak;

- the largely end-18th-century barn section, which marks the final transformation of former stins via state to agricultural business building;

- the place occupied by the remains of the original Allemastins (incorporated in the Allemastate) within the now very modest number of stinsen (or their remains) with which the north of the country is still endowed.