Architecture (in the picture is the Swabian Museum from Petreşti village, Satu Mare county)
(Source of the photo: http://schwabusiness.eu/sites/default/files/content/20121120_105550.jpg)
Happy and friendly people, Swabians would usually build their houses long, with numerous rooms and in the back of their yard they would build a huge barn, which marks until this day their households. Swabian architecture has a special feature thanks to the „ Giebelfassade “(facade) and "Flur“, the terrace which surrounds the house. Interesting is that the stable was built in together with the house and continued with the kitchen. The entrance was made from the kitchen directly to the stable, where a bed was placed for a boy from the family to sleep, so that he could oversee if something happened during the night.
The "wagon type" Swabian house was built in 1881, being situated in Petreşti, Satu Mare, made from bricks with clay and a mixture of sand, water and cement or plaster (all of this mixture being called in romanian: ,,mortar"). Its walls are 40 cm thick, and the house in itself is 17 m long, consisting of 8 rooms. Under the kitchen once was a cellar where all the vegetables and goods were stored.
