Third volume on the bilingual typology of manor houses in the Baltic Sea region is published

The third volume of Herrenhäuser. Entwicklung eines Bautyps im Ostseeraum • Manor houses. Development of a Building typology is now available. This volume, entitled “Die Blütezeit • The heyday”, is devoted to the period between absolutism and the age of enlightenment. By the middle of the 17th century at the latest, the Gutswirtschaft in the Baltic Sea Region was fully developed and had become the dominant form of agriculture. An almost universally binding form had been found for the manor houses, and they experienced their heyday, which is the focus of the considerations in this volume. For the third volume of the typology presented here, the research of sufficiently preserved or documented houses, ruins, blueprints etc. at the beginning of the work has already brought more than six hundred manor houses in the Baltic Sea Region and its hinterland into the field of vision, in addition to several hundred older houses in which interesting findings from the heyday of the manor houses have also been preserved through more recent remodelling. It has been possible to explore many of the relevant examples in person, many of them also in their interiors. For the remaining houses, it was possible to gather so much information in archives or in the older literature, which is very productive especially for Scandinavia, and generally also in the more recent relevant publications, that the work hopefully does justice to the claim of a representative study of the manor houses in the period of interest here.

Sabine Bock: »Herrenhäuser. Entwicklung eines Bautyps im Ostseeraum • Manor houses. Development of a Building
Type around the Baltic sea. 3: Die Blütezeit • The heydays«
Photographed by Thomas Helms, translated into English by Sabine Bock and Angelika Halama • Thomas Helms Verlag
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3 volumes, 24,5 x 27,5 cm, 1475 pages, hardcover, c. 2.000 illustrations, German/English, ISBN 978-3-944033-66-2