ÖZKD LXXVIII 2024 Heft 4, pp. 71-77, 2025/02/12
Vernakuläre Architektur
Dialekte der Bauernhaus-Landschaft in Österreich
The historic Montafon house and courtyard landscape is a defining part of the southernmost Vorarlberg valley and remains a key architectural element of a changing cultural landscape. The article briefly touches on some traits of the property and associated cornerstones of historical research, then takes the rare opportunity to deanonymize using examples of local rural architecture and current observations. From building inscriptions to parochial registers and the guild archive, the family members successively reconstruct a historical Montafon carpenter family that, besides creating special parts of the local building landscape through distinctive “branding,” are also responsible for an early artisanal staging of their own trademarks with recognition value.
