Opa's Farm

[93nav]

Way to small. I bet the ones you found are barely wide enough to be one car garages.

I looked quite a while last night, and found nothing. Did notice that there are not a lot of farm places in general. Do the farmers live in town in Germany?

Originally Posted by Eric Coffey

Your OP pic shows 3 buildings in close proximity, with the one on the far right slightly forward of the other two.

This looks like a possibility, which is located just to the east of the bottling co.

[Rick Lee]

That's pretty close to where I was an exchange student in high school. I didn't spend a winter in that area, but I was most recently there last Sept. Love those old farm houses. I would probably get over my fear of the cold to have one of those and just be away from the big city stuff.

[svandamme]

How bout sending that tourist office an email, asking them if the farm still exists?

[Rikao4]

well those pigs will kill you...
one almost got me in my Achilles..
when I got stupid while feeding them..

had some wonderful times with farmer Heil..
I remember riding these huge draft horses..
with him at the plow..
saw the tractor come later...
we went from hand milking to machines
and the misthofen ( manure pile).....
was replaced by a tile enclosure..
for me..
there's nothing like farm & barn smell..
some may call it stink..
I just smile and take a deep breath..

Rika

[71T Targa]

Great pictures Jeff. What memories.

My mom grew up on a farm between DC and Baltimore. (She was born in '38)
We went back there a few years ago and it was all housing.
But you could still tell where the original lane and fence line was.

[aigel]

Hell of a farm. And sold at the right time by your Opa before farms were losing their value. He is a lucky guy, big farms were the place to weather the storm and thrive during his time in Germany. They were subsidized and exempt from military draft, got help from forced labor and came out ahead again producing food when the country was starving after the war.

Some of those old buildings were flattened when automation was introduced and before old structures were fully protected.

On the rights to a spring, mineral rights, finding treasure on your property etc. are all regulated very differently in Germany where a lot stays with the country and not the landowner. Not something you can easily compare to the US.

G

[svandamme]

pretty sure the US has similar laws.. I've read some pretty weird stuff , i think here on pelican parts about some states or counties, you don't even have the right to water that comes out of clouds or somming like that.