Perhaps this will help Elinor The Typical Danube Swabian Home http://www.dvhh.org/heritage/village_life/house/index.htm Includes: House Floor Plans Settlement Plans Property Lots Cost of a Settlers House Home Furnishings Old Lighting Used Typical Swabian Kitchen Whitewashing Daily Chores Water Sources Building & Maintenance Front Court Yard Back Court Yard Salasch Stenciling Enjoy, Eve On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Elinor <eantis@verizon.net> wrote: > > I am writing a book/booklet for my husbands family on their family > history. > I am also trying to include whatever I can about life in the Banat in the > early years. My question for now is: How were the houses actually > constructed? Their house in Ernsthausen was apparently one big room with > two > windows on the front. I've seen pictures and there appear to be houses > with > either one or two windows across the front. Were they built of some kind > of > concrete blocks, or some kind of adobe type material? What were and how > were > the roofs constructed? Thank you for any kind of information. Elinor > Antis > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BANAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > -- Syrmia Regional Coordinator http://www.dvhh.org/syrmia