Number / distribution of outdoor lamps for square house approx. 9.40m x 9.40m

Or take a city tour in Vienna offered by the SPÖ.

Why – do the comrades tell me there about prefab parts for municipal housing facades?

No. The conditions like the normal workers lived behind the great facades. I'll put it this way: the poor Rhönbauer lived well in comparison. It was once a different tour. Normally, only the magnificent buildings with the dazzling personalities are shown. Dry living, the narrowness, the poverty, eventually the houses are completed and the wealthier move in. Every homeowner can put up beautiful facades if he rents under these living conditions. Every manufacturer can afford a great villa if his workers live in poverty. It's called exploitation. As for the rural population, several generations lived in the houses, partly still unmarried. Hands and skills were present. In one generation or another, there was always someone who could make something for decoration. Besides the narrowness, the houses were not demolished but maintained. No one knows how old the house is. It has always been old. That is not only said about our elder.

I am not exactly politically left, but the social market economy, our security is important. That and our attitude towards life is the price. What is presented here as junk, as social housing, etc., then still ready to move in

Every manufacturer can afford a great villa if his workers live in poverty. It's called exploitation.

"I do not pay good wages because I have a lot of money, but I have a lot of money because I pay good wages." (Robert Bosch, 1931)

With us, the little houses were plain and small. People had to fight to get full.

Fighting to get full was certainly no different in the Rhineland and Bergisches Land.
Certainly, many old houses are very simple. Alone the craftsmanship in the basics makes my heart beat faster – wood was of course mortised and tenoned, doors and frames were handmade, bricks were real bricks and not today's fancy clinker bricks, light switches, if present, were made of Bakelite. These are all details that were done even in the simplest house back then, because that was the state of the art. Today, this kind of craftsmanship is pure luxury because it is much more expensive than industrialized system products. Some roof trusses of a simple 200-year-old barn look today like an invaluable work of art – and with the same craftsmanship effort today would be pure luxury compared to the usual glued laminated timber assembly that is pre-fabricated on site.

The Gründerzeit was over before WWI. The two wars caused many changes. Even in the 1920s, many chambermaids worked for room, board, and some money.

What was possible in 1931 were utopian fantasies in 1880.

Glue and nails were expensive, then interlocking joints were used. Presumably, someone in every household in the countryside could do it. Even my father learned it from his grandfather. Many things were made for durability, not for consumption. Who can still make shingles?

We have sandstone walls in the old style, even double-masonry. Just like in the old days. One person knows how to do it and the rest help. It doesn't cost more than L-shaped stones, just takes longer, much longer. They still aren't finished.