1025 - Wilfried Thierbach, half-timbered house on Sylt, thatched roof and sweep well, dated 2011

Wilfried Thierbach, half-timbered house on Sylt, thatched roof and sweep well, dated 2011 Watercolour/paper, signed lower left, inscribed on the backboard "Stolberg/Harz" and dated 2011, half-timbered house on Sylt, long half-timbered house with red infill panels, white sash windows and deep thatched roof, in the foreground a well built of grey stones with dark cover, sweep on a forked post and bucket, on the left a bench in front of the house and deciduous trees, front right silver-coloured metal hoops as a bicycle stand, good condition, image 18x26 cm (HxW), passe-partout, glazed, framed, silver-coloured frame with relief decor, overall 34.5x44.5 cm (HxW) Timber framing is a wooden skeleton construction whose spaces, the infill panels, are filled with plastered wattle and daub or with masonry. In the North German Plain half-timbered farmsteads of the hall house type are still frequently found today. Such houses are often roofed with reed, that is, dried reed stalks; a building roofed in this way is called a reed or thatched house. In a sweep well, the leverage of a sweep carrying a counterweight makes it easier to draw up the water.