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Threshing Barn Alongside the main farmhouse building, there is another separate farm building. This is the threshing barn and the extension was used to store machinery. The building probably stems from the 17th Century and provides an excellent example of skilled, carpentry craftsmanship. A typical charac- teristic of traditional farms is that quite a few, separate buildings were dotted around the main farmhouse. This building is not part of the tour. It is owned and used by the neighbouring farm “Unterberghof”. We have already seen the grinding mills and the large wooden cog which was the horse powered mill used to power the threshing machine. They were originally housed here but are now displayed in the barn. The sheaves of corn were also in the threshing barn. The threshing ma- chine separated the grain from the husks and the stalks. For thousands of years, grain was separated by hand with flails, which was very laborious and time consuming. Mechanisation of this process took much of the drudgery out of farm labour. Threshing took place during the winter. 30
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