- In the village of Beuren there are two bakehouses: The Upper and the Lower Bakehouse.
- The Lower Bakehouse (Unteres Backhaus) was built in the mid of the 19th century and used until 2010. Due to technical problems it can no longer be used. However, in order to keep the village’s baking tradition alive, the building will be preserved.
The Lower Bakehouse
- The Upper Bakehouse (Oberes Backhaus) formerly equipped with a vaulted oven was renovated in 2017. The new oven with two doors is heated with wood, bundles of brushwood and small branches, or firewood.
- The oven is big enough for 40 traditional one-kilogram loaves of bread.
- About 15 families regularly use the bakehouse.
- For optimum public use the Upper Bakehouse is equipped with a toilet, table, chairs and a worktable to knead the dough.
The Upper Bakehouse
- Usually, the oven is heated to bake bread. The dough is either put on the baker’s shovel from rising baskets or, in case of the dough for a “Genetztes” (wetted loaf) with its wet surface, a “Schapf”, a kind of ladle, is used to place it in the oven without accident.
- During the second Beuren Bread Market in 2018 a total of 160 loaves of bread were baked.
Translation: Eberhard Eisler