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Engadin Houses & Sgraffiti
The Engadin House
Typical of the Engadin house are the massive stone walls, often decorated with sgraffito, the deep windows, the bay window and the two entrance gates in the sulèr and the stable at the front. The Engadin house is rarely perceived as a stand-alone building, but is usually associated with the neighbouring houses. When the Engadin villages were razed to the ground in various wars and then rebuilt, the houses moved ever closer together. The villages were built as close together as possible in order to be better able to defend themselves and have more security. Since then, the individual houses have stood facing each other around small squares with fountains in the centre. They face the village square or the street and not the sun.
The structure
The house consists of a residential part and a farm part (stable, barn), which are situated one behind the other. The farm part with the hayloft is usually south-facing so that the hay can dry well and thus prevent hayloft fires. The typical vertical wooden walls are fitted with ventilation slits to ensure good aeration of the hay. The massive-looking stone houses are usually wooden houses at their core. The walls, built from wooden beams, were only cladded after the wood had dried. Their thickness can be recognised by the deep, funnel-shaped window recesses.
