Forester's lodge
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A forester's lodge, forester's house or forester's hut is the residence of a forester, usually one who is in charge of a forest district.
History
Woodcutters' huts are as old as
Usually forester's houses are solid, brick-built structures that are often permanently occupied, for example as forestry administrative offices, and usually in or near settlements, while forester's huts are less well built, simpler shelters and overnight accommodation in the more remote regions of a forest district. Even today, a forester's house and several forester's huts may be only temporarily constructed in a larger forest district, during forest management work. The development of forest tracks and logging lorries, however, has meant that overnighting on site is no longer necessary in Central Europe, but is still common in the large forests of northern Europe. Sometimes a combined site is used for hunting and forestry (in Germany referred to as a Hegerhaus).
Architecture
Together with
Forest houses in Europe have a certain architecture, that is both designed to be in keeping with the countryside and also to be recognisable for what they are . Thus they often occupy an exposed site. A
Occasionally forester's houses have a defensive character. For example, the 1812 lodge of Schießhaus in the Solling was surrounded by a defensive wall with embrasures.[2]
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Forsthaus Entenpfuhl near Bad Sobernheim
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Forester's lodge in the Flensburg Municipal Forest.
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ForsthausGlücksburg near Flensburg
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Lodge in Goldenstedt
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Forsthaus Hasenhäge near Lübesse
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Forsthaus Hirschsprung near Berlebeck
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Lodge in Ilmenau
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Forsthaus Joachimstal in the Wackershofen open air museum
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Forsthaus Kreyern
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Old forester's lodge in the Lauerholz
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Old forester's lodge of Leiner Berg
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Forsthaus Oberwaiz (Eckersdorf)
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Schloss Sandersdorf
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Old forester's lodge in Wolfshagen
References
External links
Media related to Forester's lodges at Wikimedia Commons