| Added by |
 Alain Martineau
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| General Description : | With the exception of open-air museums, very little has survived of the original peasant architecture. Its replacement proceeded in three stages. First of all in the late middle ages, then at the end of the 18th and start of the 19th centuries, along with the Industrial Revolution, when a switch was made from leaving fields fallow to using fertilisation and from the sickle to the scythe, while new crops and barn feeding increased productivity and somewhat improved the frequently miserable living conditions. This led to farms becoming larger and changing in form. The third and largest period of building activity took place after 1955 with the introduction of modern agriculture with its tractors and machinery and cultivation on a scientific basis. Wooden buildings were replaced by stone, the living parlours became lighter, airier, more spacious and healthier, the windows larger, while the "smoke parlours" for smoking ham etc. became smoke kitchens, subsequently replaced by smokeless kitchens with energy-saving stoves, the thatched roofs were replaced by tiles, straw and mud walls replaced by brick. The soft plaster limewashed skin was temporarily replaced by cement rendering. Log buildings and stone houses can be found in West Styria. The residential buildings are often extended by means of a parlour at right angles to the main wing, covered by steep roofs with protruding gables, under which there is a "Gangl" (open corridor). |
| Face value | 1 Euro |
| Catalog code (Michel) | AT 2417 |
| Catalog code | Stamp Number AT 1876 Yvert et Tellier AT 2249 Stanley Gibbons AT 2621 AFA number AT 2311 WADP Numbering System - WNS AT015.03 ANK AT 2451 Unificato AT 2249 |
| Stamp colour | multicolor |
| Stamp use | Definitive stamp |
| Print run | 15.000.000 |
| Issue date | 30/05/2003 |
| Designer | Adolf Tuma |
| Print technique | photogravure |
| Perforation | comb 13¾ x 14 |
| Height | 38.00 mm |
| Width | 27.00 mm |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
