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Originally Posted by 10023
The Bavarian villages are obviously for tourists (just look at the crowds), but the scenery is beautiful!
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yes, most real fachwerk is restricted to real 19th century houses and small buildings. Since the german/northern italian areas were only being settled in the 19th century, there wasn´t really population or money or reason to have huge fachwerk buildings and entire areas. When the population of such areas became big enough to support larger buildings like those from Blumenau, obviously, fachwerk not only was something of the past, rarely used even in Bavaria or anywhere else in Europe anymore, as local buildings were then built in more contemporary european styles.
So the bigger fachwerk are really "fakes", built for touristic reason. I doubt even Germany has seen much fachwerk construction in the end of the 19th and along the 20th century.
these preserved fachwerk houses in my city are real, from around 1830
http://goo.gl/maps/HsVhj
but not many of these resisted time (in rural areas, there are many more however), because as the city grew and inhabitants got richer, they saw old fachwerk houses as quaint/poor/old fashioned, so many were demolished and more contemporary houses were built in place, like these ones, from the early 20th century
http://goo.gl/maps/qR8lg
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