Collection “Hausforschung in Bayern” (Building Research in Bavaria) after 1945

The farmhouse research was resumed in 1946 with permission by the American Military Government. Under the direction of the European Ethnologist Torsten Gebhard (1909–1994, finally general curator at the Bayerische Landesamt für Denkmalpflege (Bavarian State Office for Historic Preservation) originated ethnologically based scientific building records.

From the 1950s onwards, the focus lay on the documentation by means of plans drawn and photos taken of older farmhouses, the substance of which was under serious threat because of the fast structural change in agriculture. Each region of the Free State of Bavaria was systematically recorded district by district. Important members of staff included Theodor Heck (1896–1976) and Wilhelm Neu (1920–1998) for Upper Bavaria, Heinrich Götzger (1900–1983) and Helmut Prechter (1916–2004) for Bavarian Swabia.

• The objects of the collection "Building Research in Bavaria after 1945" available on bavarikon

The other part collections of the "Archiv für Hausforschung" available on bavarikon

• Vorherr plans
  
• Brandversicherungs-Pläne (fire insurance plans)
  
• Building Research in Bavaria before 1935
• Farmhouse Research in Bavaria between 1935 and 1945

>> This collection is part of the inventory of the Archiv für Hausforschung (Archive for Building Research) of the Institut für Volkskunde (Ethnological Institute).