| Europe's oldest wooden house still going strong |
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| 2010. július 29. csütörtök, 15:48 |
 It is the summer of 1287 in Schwyz in central Switzerland, four years before activists in this region signed the Federal Charter, the country's founding document.
They are proud of their comfortable new dwelling with its modern blockhouse design and practical layout. The family, whose name we do not know, hope their house will last and be passed on to the next generation.
Amazingly the house still stands more than 700 years later, now a museum and the oldest surviving wooden house in Europe.
By some quirk of fate the House of Bethlehem survived the ravages of time, a fire which destroyed most of the village in the seventeenth century and the kind of wrangling that led to the even older Nideröst House (1176), just a stone's throw away, being dismantled and put into storage in 2001.
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A well-to-do local family is in the middle of building a fine two-storey wooden house. They've already cut the timber from the local forest and they are helping the master carpenters assemble their dream home.
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