The main construction of these buildings would have been built from stone and mud-brick with flat clay roofs supported on timber rafters.
The delay is because large timber rafters for the roof were damaged when they were being shipped from overseas.
The roof has a Gothic arch shape formed from laminated timber rafters.
It retains the exposed timber rafters and Italianate metal monitors.
The reason may have been that timber rafters needed to shift the confluence with the Rhine into the town of Germersheim.
In addition to forestry and farm workers, it organized timber rafters, market gardeners and other rural workers.
It took them away from their lives as timber rafters and traveling circus performers.
This arrangement was slow, imperiled by either high or low water and in frequent conflict with the timber rafters who came booming downriver.
A few spindly timber rafters remained, but most had rotted and fallen in, supplying wood for Lena's cookfire.
The rooms are large with high pitched ceilings that show solid timber rafters.