House Museum of Rural Civilization
Puicher s’Kottlars haus / schtòl
The ancient house Puicher s’Kottlars in Borgata Cretta, inhabited without substantial alterations to its structure until the 1980s, was acquired by the Municipality of Sappada in 1990, restored in full compliance with the principles of conservative philological restoration, and converted into a House-Museum of Rural Civilization.
The typical rural architecture and the variety of mountain crops in the garden next to the building allow visitors to relive the daily reality of the Sappada families of the past, directly experiencing the places, domestic habits, and lifestyle.
The Puicher s’Kottlars house complex is an interesting example of a simple module dwelling with an attached stable-barn, dating back to the second quarter of the nineteenth century.
Upon entering the corridor (labe), which according to the traditional layout runs from east to west through the building, on the first floor you find the kitchen (kuchl), blackened by the smoke from the open hearth (offns vair) that smoked the food hanging on the smokehouse (eesn) on the ceiling; a completely different atmosphere is found in the dining room (kòschtibe), where the wooden paneling insulated the heat from the vaulted masonry stove (kòchlouvn), placed in the corner and fed through a special opening in the corridor. After visiting the bedroom (kommer) on the ground floor, you reach the second floor via the steep corridor staircase: here you find a second bedroom and a small room (kemmerle) used as a small workshop for manual work, where numerous tools can be observed. The balcony runs on three sides of the second floor and houses, on the eastern side, the small free-fall toilet (gònk). The roof is covered with larch wood shingles.
Unlike most of the houses in Sappada, the stable (schtòl) and the barn (dille) are here incorporated into the building, not as an independent structure near the house.
Next to the house, in a garden (gòrte), vegetables and cereals that could grow in the valley in the past are cultivated.
Where we are
Casa-Museo della Civiltà contadina - Sappada
Borgata Cretta
32047 Sappada
Phone 0435 469131