 This is considerably different from all-in-one farmhouses elsewhere in Germany and Europe which are built with traditional transverse divisions, as in the "Ernhaus", not to mention other common farm layouts where the farm comprises several buildings with different functions, usually around a farmyard.The Low German house first emerged towards the end of the Middle Ages.Only a few years ago a "Hallehuis" was discovered in the Dutch province of Drenthe, the frame of which can be dated to 1386.