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To the west is a prospect toward the distant Alps, to the east a closer prospect toward the apex of the valley. The elevation of the hut that faces the valley has a hipped roof. The hut measures approximately six meters by seven. It is made largely of timber, framed and clad with timber shingles. Three planks held by two timber strings make steps up to the door. Windows, doors, and shutters are painted in bright colors. Window transoms, mullions, and casements are a brilliant white. Their frames are canary yellow and architraves a deep blue. Hinged shutters are painted leaf green. The door is also green, with a blue frame.
The hut appears to have been built with occasional occupancy in mind, and is easily secured when unattended. This bar, secured through the window frames, can only be released from inside. Model showing the hut sitting on its leveled shelf of ground, which both cuts into the valley slope and projects from it. The hut is built into the bank, its timber-framed shingle walls sitting on a rubble plinth. The roof is almost the same height again as the walls.
The front door 1 , on the face of the hut perpendicular to the valley, opens outward. Just inside is a storm porch 2 , with a row of coat hooks on each side. This occupies the western edge of the hut, containing a dining area behind the porch, a heating stove 4 , a cooking stove 5 , equipment for preparing food, and a bed 6. This room is tightly packed with beds 8 and a small table for washing 9.
Another bed was also kept in the corner here Two further rooms are reached from the north of the Vorraum. These are built next to the retaining wall against the hillside: an earth closet 14 and drying room The Plan of the hut. Vorraum is thus slightly wider than its neighbors. The east-west wall is made as a fullheight partition where it separates the bedroom from the study, with a division on the same line implied by a cupboard and an overhead shelf in the Vorraum.
The hipped roof has a ridge running north-south.
The roof is centered over the principal rooms, its northern slope continuing downward over the drying room and earth closet to a roughly built gutter along the top of the retaining wall against the bank. The hut is primarily a timber-framed structure. Details of its construction suggest that it was made and assembled using hand tools.
Internally, walls are lined with vertical. The plan of the hut is divided almost equally in four. The Vorraum runs across the bottom of the model here. The north-south dividing wall is made of masonry at its northern end, providing a structurally stable core to the building.
Where the chimney emerges from the roof ridge, it is in clay brick. Covering shingles, thinner and larger than those on the walls, are nailed in place. On the southernmost roof slope is one inset glass tile, which lights the roofspace. Movable furniture appears to be arranged largely as it has been since the hut was built.
Like most of the building, the furniture is made from timber.
The porch occupies a corner of the room. It is padded with cushions, and some photographs show a piece of fabric stretched against it as a seatback. A table stands at the return of the bench. In addition to the bench, there are three chairs around the table. Above the bench are three windows, a double-leaf side-hung casement facing south and two single-leaf side-hung casements facing west. In the very corner of the room photographs show a hook for bags. As with all rooms in the hut, ceiling beams are exposed.
Heidegger, at the corner of the dining table, in conversation. Copyright Digne Meller-Marcovicz. Heidegger sitting at the head of the dining table, laid for a meal, with condensation trickling down the windows. Copyright Digne MellerMarcovicz. Behind this cooking stove is a tiled splashback with integral tiled shelves. In photographs, there is a woven carpet directly in front of the cooking stove, approximately one meter by two. On the external wall opposite the cooking stove is a single-leaf side-hung casement window. Beneath this is a leather-topped wooden chest.
At the north end of the room, between the external wall and the return of the door to the drying room, is a bed. The kitchen area of the. A picture of a woman in Schwarzwald costume and a warming pan appear to be hung on the north wall in photographs. Diagonally opposite the door is a desk measuring approximately one by one-and-ahalf meters.
Above it is a window, identical in dimension to that in the bedroom, but facing east. To the other side of the window is another table, smaller than the desk. Set into the corner of the room, running along the northern wall, is a series of shelves. Behind the desk, beyond the door-swing, is another bed.
Two electric table lamps were later provided: one on the desk, another on the shelves. A direct relationship is apparent between purpose and arrangement. The cooking stove in the kitchen and adjacent low bench. Elfride Heidegger cooks while her husband looks on.
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The bedroom, with Heidegger emerging from his study. Towels are hung on the back of the door to the Vorraum. A warming pan and picture of a woman in traditional Black Forest clothing are fixed to the wall. The bedroom, with the washing table to the right. Flannels hang from a small mirror-fronted cabinet. A toy boat is setting sail on the ocean of the mattress.
The study from the bedroom door. Shelves are seen almost empty apart from a few manuscripts. Heidegger poses at his desk looking toward the top of the valley, his manuscripts on the shelves behind. Another posed view of Heidegger at his desk. A simple bench may be seen beneath the bedroom window The hut in with. The front of the hut, showing the entrance steps and storm porch with coats hung from both sides. Heidegger walking back to the hut, having filled a bucket with water at the well. Copyright J. Poeschel Verlag GmbH, Stuttgart. Second, the appointment would require him to move away from familiar territory.
Heidegger and his young family appear to have wanted to maintain a base in southern Germany while he was teaching elsewhere.
Third, the philosopher needed a place to keep up his research, to think and write. An attempt was made to arrange a retreat in the Black Forest where he might be able to work. A suitable site was found, and work on the hut began. Heidegger appears to have sought particular conditions of the Black Forest region that would help him to sustain his intellectual activity. His motivation appears to have derived partly from his upbringing. He had become interested in theological and. He remained fond of locations like those in which he had begun to think philosophically.
They appear to have been something of a datum for him in his early explorations of thought. By contrast, Heidegger claimed to have found the university milieu unconducive to work. I have no desire to spend my time with University professors.