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The fondly restored half-timbered houses are partly Hallenhäuser (hall houses) with halls on the ground floors up to 5 metres high and deep cellar vaults. The families lived and worked in these halls. The fire in the hearth was burning in the background. The big cellars were storage cellars and storage rooms for the local wine. Later the high halls were divided by intermediate ceilings, so that very low and badly habitable rooms were created.
One of the most important rehabilitation measures beginning in 1970 was the restoration of these halls and their usage as shop and restaurant rooms.
In 1978 Limburg was awarded a gold medal in the Federal competition for designing towns and the protection of monuments in urban development. |
