A 19th-Century Farmhouse in Eastern Germany Gets New Tricks With an Ecologically Minded Update
Located in an outlying village three hours north of Berlin, the remote property—which until recently lacked potable water—was transformed by architects Sierra Boaz Cobb and Christine Lara Hoff into an energy-efficient, 21st-century retreat.
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Seeland, a remote German village in a damp and blustery part of the formerly communist East, seemed an unlikely place for a weekend getaway to cosmopolitan Berliner Elena Stein. And she still marvels that the tiny hamlet turned out to be a place where she’d buy a dark and ramshackle 19th-century farmhouse and remake it into an airy family retreat equipped with state-of-the-art sustainable heating and power systems.
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Michael Dumiak
Michael covers design, science, tech and business, usually at night, from a bare-bones base in the whirlwind city of Berlin.
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