We learn of 20 generations who erected agricultural buildings outside the built-up areas of the Oberbaselbiet. At first, there is only talk of hay barns, and it is only with the inspection trip of Landvogt Christ to the Oberbaselbiet (1761) that the sources become more detailed. The ideas of the Economic Societies also find their way into our region.
But under what circumstances were the innovations adapted by the rural population? What possibilities were there within the old order to build a stable barn or even an outdoor farm outside a village? Was it even possible to intensify agriculture ? What role did silk ribbon weaving play ? What did the separation of the cantons, the creation of communes, the division of common land, the cheese boom, the opening up of new markets through railroads, the construction of ribbon factories, the Vienna stock market crash mean ?
The whole web of developments in the 18th and 19th centuries is reflected in the numerous surviving "field barns". But what role can these buildings still play today, when they are no longer needed for agriculture?
Jakob Steinmann, Chairman of the Baselbieter Field Barns Association, will get to the bottom of these questions at the museum bar.
But under what circumstances were the innovations adapted by the rural population? What possibilities were there within the old order to build a stable barn or even an outdoor farm outside a village? Was it even possible to intensify agriculture ? What role did silk ribbon weaving play ? What did the separation of the cantons, the creation of communes, the division of common land, the cheese boom, the opening up of new markets through railroads, the construction of ribbon factories, the Vienna stock market crash mean ?
The whole web of developments in the 18th and 19th centuries is reflected in the numerous surviving "field barns". But what role can these buildings still play today, when they are no longer needed for agriculture?
Jakob Steinmann, Chairman of the Baselbieter Field Barns Association, will get to the bottom of these questions at the museum bar.
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