House with a tree integration in Twente, Netherlands

There are often 'bakspiekers' (bakery houses) on the farmyards, one of which is very special. An oak tree that is more than 300 years old grows through the roof of the bakspieker from 1738 in the yard of the Brouwer family on the Jonkershoesweg. In 1900, the tenant of the bakspieker wanted to build a shed for his pigs. The baroness allowed that, on the condition that the stable would surround the eighteenth-century pedunculate oak. The size of the tree increases by about three centimeters every year. The pans slide along.
This half-timbered barn, called "de Bakspieker", can be viewed from the street, but is on private property; please knock if you want to see it up close.
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