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The Boegler building is a 17th century farm in Baldenheim, Lower Rhine. Ranked a historic monument in 1929, it adopts a plan in a discontinuous U around a closed courtyard, with a log house, a secondary dwelling, a hangar and a barn. The house, with a square floor and a corbelled loggia, features typical architectural elements such as thick horn posts, ground sandstones and wooden chambranles. An extension, dated 1785, includes a stable and a barn on the ground floor.

The secondary unit, built in 1773 according to the inscriptions, has a semi-entered basement and a dance hall floor, accessible by an outdoor staircase. The carriage door, decorated with an oval medallion with L.F/V.B initials, and the pedestrian door in pink sandstone reflect a decorative care. The whole, initially larger ( stables, pigs, orchards), underwent transformations in the 19th and 20th centuries, including a recovery in coated masonry. Rehabilitation work is currently under way.

The building appears on the cadastral of 1830, but without the current barn. The 1942 surveys, carried out under the German occupation, mention extinct outbuildings (dung manure, apiary, vegetable garden). The architecture, mixing half croup, coffer in corbellation and turned balusters, suggests a construction between the late 17th and the first half of the 18th century. The site housed a hostel (Au Cerf) and then a butcher shop, illustrating its versatile use over the centuries.

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