The farm · lived in for generations
The farm has been in the family for eight generations. We took it over in 2018 and managed the renovation ourselves, doing much of the work by hand. We have lived here since 2021.
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History
Sabrina grew up right next door and played in the hay here as a child. Her grandparents were the last to live on the farm.
Tearing it down was never an option for us.
The farm’s history goes back to the 17th century, and it was last substantially rebuilt in 1906 and 1912. When Sabrina’s grandfather died, the house stood empty for the first time in centuries.
We took it over in 2018. We wanted to preserve the old rooms and live in them again. So we got started.
Chronicle
More than three centuries, changing family names and a farm that was altered again and again. Much of it is still recorded in old church registers, handwritten house books and historic building plans.
According to family tradition, the farm was built around 1660. The oldest written record is a church register from 1694 that mentions the farm’s name. Exactly when the estate was founded can no longer be proven.
The farm’s name appears in the church registers again and again over the generations, even though the residents had other surnames. In 1752 a father and son can be linked to the farm, in 1787 and 1814 daughters of the farm marry, and each brings a new family name with her. The farm’s name remains.
An old cadastral map shows the farmhouse and two outbuildings close together around a small yard. The layout can still largely be seen today.
The surviving building plans show a narrower, lower farmhouse with one residential storey and a tall pitched roof. Some of the old walls were reused later.
The working wing is rebuilt. A brick-vaulted cowshed with several vault bays and massive supports is created, built for farming. A hundred years later it becomes the defining room of our home.
The living wing is widened, raised and matched to the enlarged working wing. The building drawings have survived. The farm’s present form dates back to these years.
Livestock farming comes to an end. Cowshed, hayloft and working rooms lose their purpose, and some are only used for storage.
Sabrina’s grandparents are the last to live here. Afterwards the house stands empty, and damp and age leave their mark.
A simple renovation is not enough, decades have left their mark. A new building would be easier. We decide in favour of the old fabric.
More than 400 cubic metres of rubble, 14 months of strip-out, the floor lowered in places by almost 1.80 m. Steel beams secure the vaults, large glazed doors bring light into the former cowshed. Much of it done with our own hands.
We document the renovation on Instagram. The building diary turns into a platform for interiors, architecture and design.
We move in while building work continues around us. A modern home with vaults, old walls and many traces of its past.
Where hay was once stored, we redesign the living loft with the Munich studio 1zu33. Old fabric, contemporary interiors.
A historic shaft well with an old wooden casing, out of use for decades, gets a pump again. How old it is remains one of the farm’s unsolved mysteries.
The garden with roos buske Garten, plus the entrance and hallway. All projects
We don’t want to reinvent the farm’s story. We want to continue it.
Renovation
Managed by ourselves. We stripped out the house, carried out the rubble and kept what could still be kept. We moved in in 2021 and carried on building.
Steel beams secure the old vaults. Glazed doors bring light into the former cowshed. An energy consultant advised us on the energy-efficient renovation, and today KNX technology runs the smart home.
Rooms
The cowshed became the kitchen and dining area, the hayloft our living loft. Vaults, columns and beams still recall what the rooms were once used for.
Once: the cowshed
Kitchen, dining table and fireplace lounge share the vaulted room. The granite columns are original. Between them stands our oak table, five metres long and two metres wide.
“The more comfortable the chairs, the longer the evening.”
Once: the hayloft
In 2026 we redesigned our living space with the Munich studio 1zu33. A floor-to-ceiling shelving wall divides the room. The TV disappears behind fabric, and the old beams stay visible.
This is where we read, spend time together and film many of our posts.
Living loft: concept and design by 1zu33, Munich. Photography by Melina MacPherson for 1zu33.
Once: the grain store
Bathtub and washstand at the front, shower and WC at the back. Oak and stone-look tiles set the tone.
The ways through the house
An oak staircase now leads through the old hay hatch. Polished screed below, oak parquet above.
Outside
Granite steps, a courtyard and the pear tree on the old wall. Outside, the farm changes with the seasons.
Materials
The granite columns and beams were already here. We added oak, linen and natural stone. Here you can see where we used each material.
LimeVaults, white limewash
GraniteColumns and steps
Polished screedFloor in the vaults
Reclaimed timberRoof timbers
OakFloor in the living loft, stairs
LinenCurtains
Marblegreen, in the living loft
WalnutCabinetsSamples from our rooms. Living loft: concept and design by 1zu33, Munich. Photography by Melina MacPherson for 1zu33.
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