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There is often a small herb and vegetable garden close to the house, which is secured with a fence against cattle and game. The hay barn, built almost entirely of wood, is 10 to 20 m from the house; both together they form a so-called pair farm (stable and house are next to or against each
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Montafon table was a typical piece of furniture in a Montafonerhaus. This has an inlaid octagonal (4 broken corners) table top with a slate inlaid in the centre and stands on sloping feet. The slate was used to put down hot pots and as a writing board for the card game
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Montafon was not originally designed as a village structure. Instead, the valley consisted of single farm settlements. These were created at the time the forest was first cleared. A special feature of the Montafon valley is the lack of hedges in the entire valley.
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Montafonerhaus was a popular type of house from the 15th to the 20th century. These spacious buildings characterize the landscape in the Montafon valley until today.
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other, in avalanche areas also one behind the other). The barn is usually larger and more exposed than the house, so that the house is more sheltered from the wind and the hay in the barn can continue to dry with the wind.
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with a pitch of 23 to 25 degrees and was originally a clapboard. A snow roof is inclined so gently that the snow stays on the roof as heat insulation and does not slide off as a roof avalanche.
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