House from Maar

Built: 1786
Dismantled: 1979
Reassembled: 1987

The House Euler is a typical type of byre dwelling from the Vogelsberg region in which the living quarters, stables and storage areas share the same roof. Only the domestic part of the original small farm survived and could be transferred to the museum. The working area (threshing floor and barn) had collapsed in 1944 and had been removed.

In 1852, Heinrich Suppes, the last owner’s great-grandfather, had bought the house together with a few small plots. The house was owned and occupied by the same farming family for the next hundred years until Heinrich Euler, the son-in-law of the last owner, inherited it. Since the 1930s, the house was frequently rented out. First, to a family with many children who farmed the smallholding. At some point, it was inhabited by the village midwife. After 1945, a number of families – among those refugees – moved in and out of the house. The last tenant was an old man who passed away in the 1970s.

Because the house was listed as a landmark, it could not be demolished and was transferred to the Open Air Museum.