Marzlinger rebuilds 250-year-old baroque barn - are the historic beams holding up?

Created: 12/14/2022, 7:00 p.m

By: Manuel Eser

Baroque that inspires: builder Günther Kriegelsteiner (left), Claudia Hieble from the LAG Mittlere Isarregion and carpenter Florian Platzer are happy that the 350-year-old spruce wood is still "unbeatable".

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A Marzlinger rebuilds a baroque barn dating from 1771.

The individual parts were stored for 20 years.

The big question: Does the ancient wood support?

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- "We are story-keepers." The large letters are emblazoned on the approximately 15 meter high tent that has been set up on Freisinger Straße in Marzling.

If you want to get to the heart of the story, you have to find the well-hidden entrance to the interior.

There, protected by the outer shell, a 250-year-old baroque barn is being rebuilt in the freezing cold.

Günther Kriegelsteiner tells one of the numerous stories about this historic building – its history.

“When I was a little boy, grandpa always took me to Ampertshausen, where the barn used to be.

The owner, an acquaintance of his grandfather, told me that the construction of this farm building was not only about practicality, but also about beauty.

That really impressed me.”

Client took a long approach for his phenomenal project

The carpenters are at work at minus four degrees.

Hammers bang dully on wood, electric tools whir and roar, the handful of workers shout short instructions to each other, little clouds of breath form.

Gigantic protection: A large outer shell was installed to protect the wood from wind and weather.

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It's a crazy project for which Kriegelsteiner took a long time to get started.

In 2002 the barn in Ampertshausen (Kranzberg municipality) was demolished, the Marzlingen carpenter acquired the old beams to save them from the oven, stored them for years and now put them back together again.

The construction of the baroque barn is the last act of his long-planned housing project "Life in the orchard" and its core.

In close proximity to the new flats and apartments, in a central location, a café and a shop with regional products will find their home here.

The barn should be in place by June.

"The worm has bitten its teeth"

The spruce trees from which the building was built in 1771 have another century more under their belt than the barn.

And how is the ancient wood doing?

"Damn it," says Kriegelsteiner.

"It's unbeatable." It has dried out extremely well and is harder at its core than new wood.

"We did have worms at times, but only in the outer layers, which we were able to remove," reports architect Michael Deppisch.

The Freisinger assumes that the trees used to be healthier and were also stored better.

"The worm has bitten its teeth."

Approximately 40 percent historical wood is used for the reconstruction of the barn, the rest is new spruce, which is processed according to traditional methods.

"The wood was left conical back then," reports Kriegelsteiner.

Means: Nothing was sawn, only beaten and chopped, so that the wood in the shape of the tree narrows towards the top, explains Deppisch.

"That's what makes the building so elegant and filigree."

Is enthusiastic about the "elegant, filigree" building: Architect Michael Deppisch.

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The 21-meter-long, 12-meter-wide and 10.5-meter-high structure cannot do entirely without steel – for reasons of load-bearing capacity.

"The barn proved that it could stand like this for more than 200 years," emphasizes Kriegelsteiner.

On paper, however, it no longer withstands today's static demands.

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History must be reconciled with modern demands

"The trick is to find creative solutions that do justice to history and today's static requirements," emphasizes Florian Platzer from Zimmerei Frank in Munich.

Although his company has a lot of know-how in monument protection, this project is something special for him too.

“We work like the carpenters of yesteryear.

The components are fitted one-to-one.”

Gigantic protection: A large outer shell was installed to protect the wood from wind and weather.

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Kriegelsteiner, a true craftsman-philosopher, puts it this way: “The carpenters of the past and those of today shake hands at the interfaces where old and new wood are canted.”