Anne, Roots Web mail doesn't accept attachments but if you want to translate it, we can publish it on dvhh.org Jody Sent from my Galaxy Tab® E -------- Original message --------From: anna dreer <[email protected]> Date: 3/13/18 6:33 PM (GMT-05:00) To: "Donauschwaben Villages Helping Hands (DVHH)" <[email protected]> Subject: [DVHH] Re: Time to whitewash the walls Renate, I have no trouble translating it. The length of the article would be too long. It would have to be an attachment. The DVHH site does not take attachments. Anne -----Original Message----- From: Renate Thomas Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 6:14 PM To: Donauschwaben Villages Helping Hands (DVHH) Subject: [DVHH] Re: Time to whitewash the walls You can translate a piece at a time on google translate!  So easy and fast. -----Original Message----- From: anna dreer Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 3:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [DVHH] Time to whitewash the walls Hello Darlene, In the Lowas book there is a step by step description of  how the DS houses were built : ‘gestampft’.  I could translate it, but it is nearly two pages long. Even with editing and shortening it it would still be more than a printed page. It would be a shame to have such information lost! What would you suggest? Anne Dreer

I was able to locate my grandparents’ house in Gluckovitz (now Vladimirescu). They came to America in 1911 and the house remained in the family until the 1960s. The layout was similar with an exposed walkway from the kitchen/eating area to the two bedrooms, there was a half wall along the outside. However, at some point the walkway was completely closed in making it part of the house and enclosing the entrances to the bedrooms. > On Mar 13, 2018, at 5:29 PM, anna dreer <[email protected]> wrote: > > The rooms in our house had wood floors, except the kitchen which had a red tiled floor. The open Gang (hallway/open porch) which ran along the courtyard side of the house. It only had a ‘half wall’ called a Brustmauer (Breast wall). from what i remember it was probably less than a meter (39”). As six-year old I could not see over it. That Gang had a ‘stomped’ (gschtamft) dirt floor. > > Before sweeping it, we had to sprinkle it sparingly with water to keep the dust down. This was done with a tin can that had a handle at the top and the bottom ended in a funnel with a very small opening. It was filled with water and swung in semicircles across the floor. I cannot remember what this gadget was called. I think it was something ...spritzer (sprinkler). > To refresh this floor they used a slurry of water and clay. The clay had to be fetched from a hollow in the out of town valley. Some people mixed cow dung into the slurry which gave the floot a shine. >

Hello to all who attended last November’s meeting in Guelph and to those who wish to come to our meeting this spring. The meeting room we had in Guelph is available on the following Saturdays: May 26th, June 2nd and June 16th. Please let me know which dates you would like. Then I can confirm the booking. Anne Dreer

My mother was the daughter of Danube Swabians. She always called the living room the front room. Now I know where the name comes from — Vorzeigezimmer. We never sat in the front room unless there was company — until the TV came along. Then the whole family sat in there and watched the family TV. Fran Matkovich Sent from my iPad > On Mar 13, 2018, at 3:45 PM, Nick Tullius <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Daniela, > > How to keep a Banat-Swabian home clean - before and after the War: > > http://www.dvhh.org/alexanderhausen/memories/cleanliness-eng-de~NT.htm > > Nick > > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniela Hieslmayr [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: March 13, 2018 2:54 PM > To: Darlene Dimitrie; [email protected] > Subject: [DVHH] Re: Spring - Time to whitewash the walls > > I don’t know much about how the house of my grandmother was build. > > 1,5 year ago I visited her home town Sotin. I stood before the house, she > lived in. It was very nice, renovated and people lived in there. It has > been the house of her Danube Svabian grandmother. My grandmother, her > siblings and parents had a room in this house, where they lived. They had > floors of mashed earth she told me (so maybe loam). > > It was the typical type of house, small front, way far long back and on > the side a long corridor under roof with columns. She always says, that > there was a „Vorzeigezimmer“. She says, it was the room with the window to > the street. It was the prettiest room, but they never sat in it. Only in > rare cases, when special visitors came or on holidays. > > Liebe Grüße, Daniela > > Am 13.03.18, 16:35 schrieb "Darlene Dimitrie" unter > <[email protected]>: > >> I was visiting a cousin the other day and we were talking about what >> life was like in Yugoslavia. >> >> We were talking about how the walls were constructed in their homes. >> She was telling me about when my grandparents built their own home in >> 1937-38, how my grandmother, who was very pregnant with her 7th child, >> would take the horse and wagon to somewhere in town where men would load >> the yellow dirt (loam, I believe) onto her wagon and she would bring it >> back to the house. They would roll wood and straw into the dirt for the >> walls to strengthen them. >> >> Nothing stopped my grandma, she still had a vegetable garden when she >> was 90 years old, and passed away the next year. I have a vivid picture >> in my head of her, heavily pregnant, dealing with the horses, wagon >> and the dirt. >> >> Every spring, the walls were whitewashed inside and outside to give >> their homes a fresh look for the spring. Does anyone remember what else >> went on in the springtime - besides the obvious, planting of the crops. >> >> Was wondering if anyone would talk a bit more about the construction of >> their homes. My mom's house had loam floors, which they would sweep >> every day. You were considered rich if you had wood floors Was the >> roof mud too? What about interior walls? She said that the walls were >> thick enough that it kept the temperature regulated, not too hot in the >> summer or too cold in the winter. >> >> Across the front of the house, the porch was covered with grapevines, >> which were for eating, as opposed to the ones in their vineyards, which >> were for wine-making. >> >> >> -- >> Darlene >> http://www.dvhh.org/membership/associates.htm#D >> > > >

Hello Anne and all members of DVHH, I would like to congratulate Anne on a well written historic article I would like to ad a personal article. It was at the time Hungary took over the Batschka and we became part of Hungary again. With it we hand a handful of NAZI supporter that took upon themselves to paint a Victory sign on the wall of the front of the house underneath the gable. My grandmother went out in the morning and white washed over it only to see the Victory sign on the house again and again she hat to out in morning to white wash over again this went on for days. My grandmother was not the only women that had to do this at her women had to to the very same thing until the Russian came. When my brother did go to our home in Batsczsentiwan in the in 70this he saw the victory sign on a brick house which you could not white wash. By the way the victory sign was a large V about 18 inches high with a zwasticker in the middle cradled by oak leave branches on both sides underneath. > On Mar 13, 2018, at 5:10 PM, anna dreer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you Jody, > Anne > > -----Original Message----- From: jodymckimpharr > Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 5:09 PM > To: Donauschwaben Villages Helping Hands (DVHH) ; [email protected] > Subject: [DVHH] Re: Time to whitewash the walls > > One of my favorite stories was written by you Anne! > http://www.dvhh.org/heritage/society/village-life/busy-ds-women-a-dreer.htm > Jody > > > Sent from my Galaxy Tab® E > -------- Original message --------From: anna dreer <[email protected]> Date: 3/13/18 3:00 PM (GMT-05:00) To: [email protected] Subject: [DVHH] Time to whitewash the walls > Hello Darlene, > In the Lowas book there is a step by step description of how the DS houses were built : ‘gestampft’. I could translate it, but it is nearly two pages long. Even with editing and shortening it it would still be more than a printed page. It would be a shame to have such information lost! > What would you suggest? > Anne Dreer > >

Renate, I have no trouble translating it. The length of the article would be too long. It would have to be an attachment. The DVHH site does not take attachments. Anne -----Original Message----- From: Renate Thomas Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 6:14 PM To: Donauschwaben Villages Helping Hands (DVHH) Subject: [DVHH] Re: Time to whitewash the walls You can translate a piece at a time on google translate! So easy and fast. -----Original Message----- From: anna dreer Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 3:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [DVHH] Time to whitewash the walls Hello Darlene, In the Lowas book there is a step by step description of how the DS houses were built : ‘gestampft’. I could translate it, but it is nearly two pages long. Even with editing and shortening it it would still be more than a printed page. It would be a shame to have such information lost! What would you suggest? Anne Dreer

The rooms in our house had wood floors, except the kitchen which had a red tiled floor. The open Gang (hallway/open porch) which ran along the courtyard side of the house. It only had a ‘half wall’ called a Brustmauer (Breast wall). from what i remember it was probably less than a meter (39”). As six-year old I could not see over it. That Gang had a ‘stomped’ (gschtamft) dirt floor. Before sweeping it, we had to sprinkle it sparingly with water to keep the dust down. This was done with a tin can that had a handle at the top and the bottom ended in a funnel with a very small opening. It was filled with water and swung in semicircles across the floor. I cannot remember what this gadget was called. I think it was something ...spritzer (sprinkler). To refresh this floor they used a slurry of water and clay. The clay had to be fetched from a hollow in the out of town valley. Some people mixed cow dung into the slurry which gave the floot a shine.

You can translate a piece at a time on google translate! So easy and fast. -----Original Message----- From: anna dreer Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 3:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [DVHH] Time to whitewash the walls Hello Darlene, In the Lowas book there is a step by step description of how the DS houses were built : ‘gestampft’. I could translate it, but it is nearly two pages long. Even with editing and shortening it it would still be more than a printed page. It would be a shame to have such information lost! What would you suggest? Anne Dreer

Two things: walls and floors. I do not have the benefit of having lived in Banat, so I am speaking just from hearsay. If I am full of baloney, I hope someone will set me straight. With respect to whitewashing walls, I believe it was for more than just esthetics. My understanding is that the walls were made of mud and straw bricks which were then plastered over with mud to make a smoother surface. Then they were whitewashed for appearance and _protection_. The whitewash protected the mud coating from wicking up water. Not sure if this was continuous from the water table or just from the surface when it rained. If you go to Banat today, you will find that most of these old houses are not well cared for and the plaster for the bottom three feet or so has fallen away. With respect to dirt floors, I have an account of Banaters building a sod house in Canada in which they somehow used cow dung to give the floor a smooth and polished finish. I am not sure if it was mixed with mud or just smeared on the dirt floor. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Glenn Schwartz President, Zichydorf Village Association (http://zichydorfonline.org) Searching: Schwartz, Kleckner, Schönherr in Zichydorf, Banat; Schüssler, Millecker, Lenhardt in Kudritz, Banat; Schwartz, Kory, Pierson/Person in Morawitza, Banat; Kalupsky/Chalupsky in Blumenthal, Banat; Bardua, Kandel, Heuchert in Kolomea, Galicia; Kuntz, Holzer, Kraft, Wolfe, Folk (Volk) in Kutschurgan, Russia; Macht in Volga, Russia. Email: [email protected] On 3/13/2018 2:58 PM, Rose Mary Keller Hughes wrote: > My mother told me about how it was her weekly chore to "do" the floors in her parents' home. They were dirt floor but with the weekly cleaning it had become almost like a ceramic floor. She would wash the floor and then, with a broom, she would create a design on the floor. It wasn't until my grandparents sent money home from America that a wood floor was put in (it was my grandmother's brother who put in the floor--he had a lumberyard in the village). My grandparents' primary reason for going to America was to improve their home and to buy more land for farming. > > Rose Mary > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Tullius <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 3:46 PM > To: 'Donauschwaben Villages Helping Hands (DVHH) ' <[email protected]> > Subject: [DVHH] Re: Spring - Time to whitewash the walls > > Hello Daniela, > > How to keep a Banat-Swabian home clean - before and after the War: > > http://www.dvhh.org/alexanderhausen/memories/cleanliness-eng-de~NT.htm > > Nick > > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniela Hieslmayr [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: March 13, 2018 2:54 PM > To: Darlene Dimitrie; [email protected] > Subject: [DVHH] Re: Spring - Time to whitewash the walls > > I don’t know much about how the house of my grandmother was build. > > 1,5 year ago I visited her home town Sotin. I stood before the house, she lived in. It was very nice, renovated and people lived in there. It has been the house of her Danube Svabian grandmother. My grandmother, her siblings and parents had a room in this house, where they lived. They had floors of mashed earth she told me (so maybe loam). > > It was the typical type of house, small front, way far long back and on the side a long corridor under roof with columns. She always says, that there was a „Vorzeigezimmer“. She says, it was the room with the window to the street. It was the prettiest room, but they never sat in it. Only in rare cases, when special visitors came or on holidays. > > Liebe Grüße, Daniela > > Am 13.03.18, 16:35 schrieb "Darlene Dimitrie" unter > <[email protected]>: > >> I was visiting a cousin the other day and we were talking about what >> life was like in Yugoslavia. >> >> We were talking about how the walls were constructed in their homes. >> She was telling me about when my grandparents built their own home in >> 1937-38, how my grandmother, who was very pregnant with her 7th child, >> would take the horse and wagon to somewhere in town where men would >> load the yellow dirt (loam, I believe) onto her wagon and she would >> bring it back to the house. They would roll wood and straw into the >> dirt for the walls to strengthen them. >> >> Nothing stopped my grandma, she still had a vegetable garden when she >> was 90 years old, and passed away the next year. I have a vivid >> picture >> in my head of her, heavily pregnant, dealing with the horses, wagon >> and the dirt. >> >> Every spring, the walls were whitewashed inside and outside to give >> their homes a fresh look for the spring. Does anyone remember what >> else went on in the springtime - besides the obvious, planting of the crops. >> >> Was wondering if anyone would talk a bit more about the construction of >> their homes. My mom's house had loam floors, which they would sweep >> every day. You were considered rich if you had wood floors Was the >> roof mud too? What about interior walls? She said that the walls were >> thick enough that it kept the temperature regulated, not too hot in the >> summer or too cold in the winter. >> >> Across the front of the house, the porch was covered with grapevines, >> which were for eating, as opposed to the ones in their vineyards, which >> were for wine-making. >> >> >> -- >> Darlene >> http://www.dvhh.org/membership/associates.htm#D >> > > > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus >

Thank you Jody, Anne -----Original Message----- From: jodymckimpharr Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 5:09 PM To: Donauschwaben Villages Helping Hands (DVHH) ; [email protected] Subject: [DVHH] Re: Time to whitewash the walls One of my favorite stories was written by you Anne! http://www.dvhh.org/heritage/society/village-life/busy-ds-women-a-dreer.htm Jody Sent from my Galaxy Tab® E -------- Original message --------From: anna dreer <[email protected]> Date: 3/13/18 3:00 PM (GMT-05:00) To: [email protected] Subject: [DVHH] Time to whitewash the walls Hello Darlene, In the Lowas book there is a step by step description of how the DS houses were built : ‘gestampft’. I could translate it, but it is nearly two pages long. Even with editing and shortening it it would still be more than a printed page. It would be a shame to have such information lost! What would you suggest? Anne Dreer

One of my favorite stories was written by you Anne! http://www.dvhh.org/heritage/society/village-life/busy-ds-women-a-dreer.htm  Jody Sent from my Galaxy Tab® E -------- Original message --------From: anna dreer <[email protected]> Date: 3/13/18 3:00 PM (GMT-05:00) To: [email protected] Subject: [DVHH] Time to whitewash the walls Hello Darlene, In the Lowas book there is a step by step description of  how the DS houses were built : ‘gestampft’.  I could translate it, but it is nearly two pages long. Even with editing and shortening it it would still be more than a printed page. It would be a shame to have such information lost! What would you suggest? Anne Dreer

Good story Nick, sad ending though. Thanks,Jody Sent from my Galaxy Tab® E -------- Original message --------From: Nick Tullius <[email protected]> Date: 3/13/18 3:45 PM (GMT-05:00) To: "'Donauschwaben Villages Helping Hands (DVHH) '" <[email protected]> Subject: [DVHH] Re: Spring - Time to whitewash the walls Hello Daniela, How to keep a Banat-Swabian home clean - before and after the War: http://www.dvhh.org/alexanderhausen/memories/cleanliness-eng-de~NT.htm Nick -----Original Message----- From: Daniela Hieslmayr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: March 13, 2018 2:54 PM To: Darlene Dimitrie; [email protected] Subject: [DVHH] Re: Spring - Time to whitewash the walls I don’t know much about how the house of my grandmother was build. 1,5 year ago I visited her home town Sotin. I stood before the house, she lived in. It was very nice, renovated and people lived in there. It has been the house of her Danube Svabian grandmother. My grandmother, her siblings and parents had a room in this house, where they lived. They had floors of mashed earth she told me (so maybe loam). It was the typical type of house, small front, way far long back and on the side a long corridor under roof with columns. She always says, that there was a „Vorzeigezimmer“. She says, it was the room with the window to the street. It was the prettiest room, but they never sat in it. Only in rare cases, when special visitors came or on holidays. Liebe Grüße, Daniela Am 13.03.18, 16:35 schrieb "Darlene Dimitrie" unter <[email protected]>: >I was visiting a cousin the other day and we were talking about what >life was like in Yugoslavia. > >We were talking about how the walls were constructed in their homes. >She was telling me about when my grandparents built their own home in >1937-38, how my grandmother, who was very pregnant with her 7th child, >would take the horse and wagon to somewhere in town where men would load >the yellow dirt (loam, I believe) onto her wagon and she would bring it >back to the house.  They would roll wood and straw into the dirt for the >walls to strengthen them. > >Nothing stopped my grandma, she still had a vegetable garden when she >was 90 years old, and passed away the next year.  I have a vivid picture >  in my head of her, heavily pregnant, dealing with the horses, wagon >and the dirt. > >Every spring, the walls were whitewashed inside and outside to give >their homes a fresh look for the spring.  Does anyone remember what else >went on in the springtime - besides the obvious, planting of the crops. > >Was wondering if anyone would talk a bit more about the construction of >their homes.  My mom's house had loam floors, which they would sweep >every day.  You were considered rich if you had wood floors  Was the >roof mud too?  What about interior walls?  She said that the walls were >thick enough that it kept the temperature regulated, not too hot in the >summer or too cold in the winter. > >Across the front of the house, the porch was covered with grapevines, >which were for eating, as opposed to the ones in their vineyards, which >were for wine-making. > > >-- >Darlene >http://www.dvhh.org/membership/associates.htm#D >

In Semlak the special room (for "entertaining," for funerals, and for special events) and it was called the gute stube (good room). The best embroidered pieces and crocheted pieces were in this room. I've googled and found there are several restaurants in Germany called de Gute Stube. ???? Rose Mary -----Original Message----- From: anna dreer <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 3:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [DVHH] Time to whitewash the walls We had a special room at our house, too. In DS we called it the ‘Paradistub’. in High German it means Parade-Stube, translated ‘display room’. It had a dresser between the two windows and a bed on each opposing wall and also a wardrobe. It was a guest room for special occasions. During the war we had to let two German officers use it. Anne D. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

My mother told me about how it was her weekly chore to "do" the floors in her parents' home. They were dirt floor but with the weekly cleaning it had become almost like a ceramic floor. She would wash the floor and then, with a broom, she would create a design on the floor. It wasn't until my grandparents sent money home from America that a wood floor was put in (it was my grandmother's brother who put in the floor--he had a lumberyard in the village). My grandparents' primary reason for going to America was to improve their home and to buy more land for farming. Rose Mary -----Original Message----- From: Nick Tullius <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 3:46 PM To: 'Donauschwaben Villages Helping Hands (DVHH) ' <[email protected]> Subject: [DVHH] Re: Spring - Time to whitewash the walls Hello Daniela, How to keep a Banat-Swabian home clean - before and after the War: http://www.dvhh.org/alexanderhausen/memories/cleanliness-eng-de~NT.htm Nick -----Original Message----- From: Daniela Hieslmayr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: March 13, 2018 2:54 PM To: Darlene Dimitrie; [email protected] Subject: [DVHH] Re: Spring - Time to whitewash the walls I don’t know much about how the house of my grandmother was build. 1,5 year ago I visited her home town Sotin. I stood before the house, she lived in. It was very nice, renovated and people lived in there. It has been the house of her Danube Svabian grandmother. My grandmother, her siblings and parents had a room in this house, where they lived. They had floors of mashed earth she told me (so maybe loam). It was the typical type of house, small front, way far long back and on the side a long corridor under roof with columns. She always says, that there was a „Vorzeigezimmer“. She says, it was the room with the window to the street. It was the prettiest room, but they never sat in it. Only in rare cases, when special visitors came or on holidays. Liebe Grüße, Daniela Am 13.03.18, 16:35 schrieb "Darlene Dimitrie" unter <[email protected]>: >I was visiting a cousin the other day and we were talking about what >life was like in Yugoslavia. > >We were talking about how the walls were constructed in their homes. >She was telling me about when my grandparents built their own home in >1937-38, how my grandmother, who was very pregnant with her 7th child, >would take the horse and wagon to somewhere in town where men would >load the yellow dirt (loam, I believe) onto her wagon and she would >bring it back to the house. They would roll wood and straw into the >dirt for the walls to strengthen them. > >Nothing stopped my grandma, she still had a vegetable garden when she >was 90 years old, and passed away the next year. I have a vivid >picture > in my head of her, heavily pregnant, dealing with the horses, wagon >and the dirt. > >Every spring, the walls were whitewashed inside and outside to give >their homes a fresh look for the spring. Does anyone remember what >else went on in the springtime - besides the obvious, planting of the crops. > >Was wondering if anyone would talk a bit more about the construction of >their homes. My mom's house had loam floors, which they would sweep >every day. You were considered rich if you had wood floors Was the >roof mud too? What about interior walls? She said that the walls were >thick enough that it kept the temperature regulated, not too hot in the >summer or too cold in the winter. > >Across the front of the house, the porch was covered with grapevines, >which were for eating, as opposed to the ones in their vineyards, which >were for wine-making. > > >-- >Darlene >http://www.dvhh.org/membership/associates.htm#D > --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Hello Daniela, How to keep a Banat-Swabian home clean - before and after the War: http://www.dvhh.org/alexanderhausen/memories/cleanliness-eng-de~NT.htm Nick -----Original Message----- From: Daniela Hieslmayr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: March 13, 2018 2:54 PM To: Darlene Dimitrie; [email protected] Subject: [DVHH] Re: Spring - Time to whitewash the walls I don’t know much about how the house of my grandmother was build. 1,5 year ago I visited her home town Sotin. I stood before the house, she lived in. It was very nice, renovated and people lived in there. It has been the house of her Danube Svabian grandmother. My grandmother, her siblings and parents had a room in this house, where they lived. They had floors of mashed earth she told me (so maybe loam). It was the typical type of house, small front, way far long back and on the side a long corridor under roof with columns. She always says, that there was a „Vorzeigezimmer“. She says, it was the room with the window to the street. It was the prettiest room, but they never sat in it. Only in rare cases, when special visitors came or on holidays. Liebe Grüße, Daniela Am 13.03.18, 16:35 schrieb "Darlene Dimitrie" unter <[email protected]>: >I was visiting a cousin the other day and we were talking about what >life was like in Yugoslavia. > >We were talking about how the walls were constructed in their homes. >She was telling me about when my grandparents built their own home in >1937-38, how my grandmother, who was very pregnant with her 7th child, >would take the horse and wagon to somewhere in town where men would load >the yellow dirt (loam, I believe) onto her wagon and she would bring it >back to the house. They would roll wood and straw into the dirt for the >walls to strengthen them. > >Nothing stopped my grandma, she still had a vegetable garden when she >was 90 years old, and passed away the next year. I have a vivid picture > in my head of her, heavily pregnant, dealing with the horses, wagon >and the dirt. > >Every spring, the walls were whitewashed inside and outside to give >their homes a fresh look for the spring. Does anyone remember what else >went on in the springtime - besides the obvious, planting of the crops. > >Was wondering if anyone would talk a bit more about the construction of >their homes. My mom's house had loam floors, which they would sweep >every day. You were considered rich if you had wood floors Was the >roof mud too? What about interior walls? She said that the walls were >thick enough that it kept the temperature regulated, not too hot in the >summer or too cold in the winter. > >Across the front of the house, the porch was covered with grapevines, >which were for eating, as opposed to the ones in their vineyards, which >were for wine-making. > > >-- >Darlene >http://www.dvhh.org/membership/associates.htm#D >

We had a special room at our house, too. In DS we called it the ‘Paradistub’. in High German it means Parade-Stube, translated ‘display room’. It had a dresser between the two windows and a bed on each opposing wall and also a wardrobe. It was a guest room for special occasions. During the war we had to let two German officers use it. Anne D.

Hello Darlene, In the Lowas book there is a step by step description of how the DS houses were built : ‘gestampft’. I could translate it, but it is nearly two pages long. Even with editing and shortening it it would still be more than a printed page. It would be a shame to have such information lost! What would you suggest? Anne Dreer

I don’t know much about how the house of my grandmother was build. 1,5 year ago I visited her home town Sotin. I stood before the house, she lived in. It was very nice, renovated and people lived in there. It has been the house of her Danube Svabian grandmother. My grandmother, her siblings and parents had a room in this house, where they lived. They had floors of mashed earth she told me (so maybe loam). It was the typical type of house, small front, way far long back and on the side a long corridor under roof with columns. She always says, that there was a „Vorzeigezimmer“. She says, it was the room with the window to the street. It was the prettiest room, but they never sat in it. Only in rare cases, when special visitors came or on holidays. Liebe Grüße, Daniela Am 13.03.18, 16:35 schrieb "Darlene Dimitrie" unter <[email protected]>: >I was visiting a cousin the other day and we were talking about what >life was like in Yugoslavia. > >We were talking about how the walls were constructed in their homes. >She was telling me about when my grandparents built their own home in >1937-38, how my grandmother, who was very pregnant with her 7th child, >would take the horse and wagon to somewhere in town where men would load >the yellow dirt (loam, I believe) onto her wagon and she would bring it >back to the house. They would roll wood and straw into the dirt for the >walls to strengthen them. > >Nothing stopped my grandma, she still had a vegetable garden when she >was 90 years old, and passed away the next year. I have a vivid picture > in my head of her, heavily pregnant, dealing with the horses, wagon >and the dirt. > >Every spring, the walls were whitewashed inside and outside to give >their homes a fresh look for the spring. Does anyone remember what else >went on in the springtime - besides the obvious, planting of the crops. > >Was wondering if anyone would talk a bit more about the construction of >their homes. My mom's house had loam floors, which they would sweep >every day. You were considered rich if you had wood floors Was the >roof mud too? What about interior walls? She said that the walls were >thick enough that it kept the temperature regulated, not too hot in the >summer or too cold in the winter. > >Across the front of the house, the porch was covered with grapevines, >which were for eating, as opposed to the ones in their vineyards, which >were for wine-making. > > >-- >Darlene >http://www.dvhh.org/membership/associates.htm#D >

I was visiting a cousin the other day and we were talking about what life was like in Yugoslavia. We were talking about how the walls were constructed in their homes. She was telling me about when my grandparents built their own home in 1937-38, how my grandmother, who was very pregnant with her 7th child, would take the horse and wagon to somewhere in town where men would load the yellow dirt (loam, I believe) onto her wagon and she would bring it back to the house. They would roll wood and straw into the dirt for the walls to strengthen them. Nothing stopped my grandma, she still had a vegetable garden when she was 90 years old, and passed away the next year. I have a vivid picture in my head of her, heavily pregnant, dealing with the horses, wagon and the dirt. Every spring, the walls were whitewashed inside and outside to give their homes a fresh look for the spring. Does anyone remember what else went on in the springtime - besides the obvious, planting of the crops. Was wondering if anyone would talk a bit more about the construction of their homes. My mom's house had loam floors, which they would sweep every day. You were considered rich if you had wood floors Was the roof mud too? What about interior walls? She said that the walls were thick enough that it kept the temperature regulated, not too hot in the summer or too cold in the winter. Across the front of the house, the porch was covered with grapevines, which were for eating, as opposed to the ones in their vineyards, which were for wine-making. -- Darlene http://www.dvhh.org/membership/associates.htm#D

Hello everyone, A couple of us have booked some rooms at the Radisson in Kitchener. It would be great to know where others are staying and who all plans to be making the trip or those that are coming that live in the area. Can we discuss here as a thread? Or, if this a problem with causing undo mail issues for those not interested please write me personally. So far all I know of for sure are Jean Hagen, Darlene Dimitrie and myself. It seems that Lori Strauss wrote also that she plans to attend. Would love to hear from you! Eve -- Syrmia Regional Coordinator http://www.dvhh.org/syrmia