Stroll through Strasbourg

A magnificent half-timbered house and a bakery with excellent goods.
Half-timbered houses are skeleton buildings made of wood, in which the horizontal bracing, in order to withstand the wind load, takes place by means of diagonally built in struts and the intermediate spaces, the compartments, are filled with a clay plastered wooden mesh or with brickwork. As construction timber, round timber was hewn into beams with a square cross-section using a broad axe. The timber was joined by the carpenters, without the use of metal fasteners such as nails or screws.