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Interesting. We have a concrete wall that serves as a retaining wall. The mountain still needs to be supported here. Reinforcement simply doesn't work with wood.

so your house will still be plastered from the outside, right?

A great idea with the wooden house, but I would have concerns about the underfloor heating and also that typical creaking and cracking in the timber framework. Or that it gets infested by insects and wood is also extremely sensitive to moisture

Climbee

Is it a timber frame or solid wood?
Are you building near Augsburg? I once lived there in the Stone Age.
What energy standard are you building and what kind of heating?

@ Niri
We have a solid wood house.
Underfloor heating is possible.
There is no creaking at all – the wood is stored and our panels are cross-glued and not whole tree trunks. Allegedly, timber frame creaks and settles more.
Moisture: ours stands on a slab foundation and therefore doesn't get wet feet. I find the idea of a wooden cellar interesting. Wood takes a very long time to fully absorb moisture. It is not a problem to erect such a house in the rain.
Water damage, e.g. from broken pipes, also occurs in a solid house.
There are no termites here; the woodworm prefers easier prey – no, I don’t worry about that.
Wood is not a bad building material and also durable when used correctly. Just look at the old half-timbered houses.
It is normally plastered from the outside.

We also have L-bricks for the neighbor to retain the terrain towards the east (that is the side visible in the avatar) (on that side, it will not be a balcony as it currently looks, but a terrace). We will also need additional retaining walls for the terrain (in the front, on the south side of the house, the basement will be sloped down and on the left and right we will need retaining walls), and these will be made of concrete. The house itself and the basement will only be made of wood. Moreover, wood studs, because the insulation values are simply better there. It will probably end up being a KfW40 house, but without storage. We will have a larch slatted facade. We are building onto my mother’s house, which is white, and the new addition should stand out a little but harmonize. We thought it was tacky to just slap another white house onto it. In addition, a natural wood facade is absolutely low-maintenance if you accept the inevitable graying. We even find it very pretty. We are not building near Augsburg but somewhat further south, near Landsberg. I have absolutely no worries about the wooden house. In Scandinavia, they have been building wooden houses for centuries, and they are still standing today. Admittedly, I was a bit skeptical about the wooden basement, but rather whether our groundwater level is low enough. Because that is the only problem: if groundwater gets under such a wooden basement house. And then the problem is not the tightness, but that it can float.

Wooden houses are often built in the far north. They tolerate temperature fluctuations from +25 to -50 better. Larch goes perfectly with white. We built directly on the mountain and the 13 meters pressing against the house must hold. The structural engineer would not have agreed to a timber frame. We have no photovoltaic system, no solar panels, and no storage. That will come in a few years. However, no underfloor heating either.

and that sounds really good. There are always pros and cons whether it's wood, KS, or other building materials.