A Remembrance of the Past; Building for the Future." ~ Eve Eckert Koehler
Remembering Our Danube Swabian Ancestors
The Kameral Settlement
Construction Office
by Peter Lang
Translation by Brad Schwebler
This
office was our idea today of a competent administrative authority.
His task is described in the following citation:
"This
office stood for (stunde vor) Mr. Joseph Kiss, as building director, and had the
obligation to keep track of several accounts for the settlement construction,
such as:
That the new villages were laid out orderly and systematically, the
house plots and grounds were
properly measured, and the required building materials were brought to the right
place (auf Ort und Stelle).
That the building contractor measured correctly each house 11 fathoms
long, 3 fathoms wide, and 8 "shoes" (feet) high from the stamped
earth, with one room, one kitchen, one chamber, and one stable, then a staggered
thatched roof and all of the remainder well made.
That each house have proper inner and outer living space (Extra-Villan-Gründ=
One family homes) and be neat and measured. (Anm. L.)
That for every ten homes an authentic well (guaranteed wells, Anm. l.)
with all of them built entirely from stone.
It is strongly encouraged that
the wells be constructed at the start of establishing a new village.
