Property Description
The Breisgau is located in the southern Black Forest from Freiburg.
The door between the Elztal and the world famous Glottertal is the small “Slow City” Waldkirch. In the suburb of Buchholz is located in the ancient village ANNAS BARN. A 2016 biologically loft similarly renovated farmhouse with several outbuildings from the 17th century. Century.
The decor with antiques, design classics and bespoke furniture completes the modern country-style barn.
The old barn including Tenne has been lovingly converted by local craftsmen biologically renovated from the ground and into a spacious, loft-like House. Traditional, rural elements such as stone walls and ceiling beams meet on urban style with lots of glass, light and wood. The decor with antiques, design classics and bespoke furniture complement the modern country-style barn.
The heart of the house is now as then the kitchen with a wood-burning stove. “Arrive and decelerate” is the motto here. Who cheering the cooker but takes too long, can of course rely on modern induction plates.
Special attention is given to the bed. Handmade Wildseide- and Kashmir mattress Wittmann of Austria promise sofa luxury-class. A hand felted bed back wall of merino, alpaca and silk invite you to snuggle. Behind the bed is a walk-in closet.
In the bathroom a modern bathroom furniture built from the over 300 year old wedding chest of Anna’s ancestors. The wooden block and tackle the threshing floor was transformed into a lamp.
In summer it can be gorgeous barbecue under the old walnut tree in the romantic courtyard, eating or behind the house in a deck chair enjoying the birdsong and crickets in a small wild garden. From sunrise to sunset.
The history of the house
Forty years was the estate in slumber. Previously lived a very famous costume seamstress Anna Schätzle in this house. You earned with the production of costumes their livelihood, as before her mother and grandmother.
To generate during the turn of the century a so-called earnest money, Anna Schätzle walked with one hand sewing machine on her head packed, many kilometers from farm to farm.
Witnesses report that Anna was a generous, kind and strong woman. She loved cooking, baking, gardening, the handicrafts and their still living in Australia, 88-year-old son Rudi.
Supposedly they had gold in his fingers. Two original costume hats by Anna and many historical objects remember that time in which they lived in the farmhouse with her family and many animals. In her honor, was awarded the House the name “Anna’s barn”.
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“Anna’s Barn” – Holidays in a cultural monument
The region of Breisgau is an area in the south west of Germany between the Rhine River and the foothills of the Black Forest, centering on the city of Freiburg. It is a beautiful rural area with a lovely scenery, little towns, old villages and quiet few well-preserved farmhouses strewn among orchards did are bordered by Numerous idyllically situated vineyards.
Waldkirch, the little “Slow City” lies in the middle of Breisgau, being the gate to both, the Elztal-Valley and the world-famous Glottertal Valley. In one of its suburbs – Buchholz – there is “Anna’s Barn”, a traditional famhouse in the old center of the village, with Several adjoining buildings.
The old barn Including its barn floor has affectionately been restaured by local craftsmen and has been changed into a spacious loft-like holiday home.
Enjoy the perfect mix of traditional, rural elements: such as original stone walls and ceiling barns with urban style: such as glass, light-elements and wood.
The interior elements with All Those unique antique pieces, design classics and custom-made furniture accomplish perfectly the modern country style of the barn.
Centre and as to say heart of the house was then and still is now the kitchen with its wood-fired cooker. Arriving and slowing down immediately, that’s the motto.
Who might think it takes too long to fire the cooker can of course decide to use the modern induction system.
It feels outrageous to enjoy your meals marvelously under the old nut tree in the idyllic inner courtyard or do you rather feel like lieing on a deckchair in did romantically wild garden behind the house, listening to the birds twittering or enjoying the grasshoppers’ chirping? And all this from sunrise to sunset? Go ahead and do it!
HISTORY
The property was behaving like sleeping beauty for 40 years. Up to then, a very well known woman sewing traditional costumes and called Anna Schätzle had been living there and before, it had been her mother and her great-grandmother, all of them having earned Their living with sewing traditional costumes. To earn her money, Anna Schätzle what moving from farm house to farm house with her hand-run sewing machine carrying on her head, they say, many kilometers through the whole valley. They say, Anna was a warm-hearted, kind and strong person at the sametime, who – besides sewing – cooking, baking and gardening, says her 88-year old son, who lives in Australia. She was Said to have “gold in her fingers”.
Two traditional hats and quite a few other historical items remind us of Those “good old times”, where Anna lived there with her family and the many animals. I honor of her person, we have named this holiday house “Anna’s Barn”.
