Renovating a half-timbered house - low ceiling heights, are there possibilities?

You can calmly plan, since apparently no one wants the house.

Or rather - if I understood Gabriele correctly - if someone should buy it in the meantime, he will bring it back in daylight.

Or rather - if I understood Gabriele correctly - if someone should buy it in the meantime, he will bring it back in daylight

Off topic: You kindly offered me last year to take a professional look at our house sale advertisement. Is that offer still valid? If everything goes as planned today and tomorrow, we can place the ad on Tuesday. Thanks in advance, whether yes or no.

The bank cautiously calls it a "lover's object." If you buy this hodgepodge and want to live in it, you should keep in mind that you only avoid burning money if you renovate it according to today's standards...

An important note! Much can go wrong when renovating timber-framed houses, starting with the choice of materials and techniques used. Timber-framed houses require different materials and approaches than more modern houses if you want to renovate sustainably and correctly. A renovation is only truly valuable, as Nordanney already mentioned, if it is professionally carried out and the resulting living standards meet today's residential expectations. This means a lot of planning, a lot of expertise, and usually a lot of (own) money, unless you can convince the bank with a sensible usage concept.

From what I have gathered, you are less interested in preserving or renovating the old timber-framed house itself and more interested in the outbuildings. In that case, you need to consider whether it might be easier to demolish the house and build a house to today’s standards in its place or whether you can create living space in one of the outbuildings with newer construction.

Given the current level of interest, you can take your time to think about it, talk to the building authorities about the possibilities, and perhaps consult with an architect or expert experienced with/affine to timber-framed houses about the renovation possibilities and impossibilities, as well as the resulting consequences and financial needs, and come to a solution that suits you, which of course can also mean that the offered property is not suitable.

The most pragmatic approach would probably be to completely remove the beam ceiling and open the ground floor all the way up to the ridge. Possibly also with a small gallery. The bedrooms and the bathroom would then be placed in one of the attached structures, for which a change of use must be applied for and approved.

Let's assume the property costs €200,000 and we want to fully finance this purchase price (possibly minus incidental costs), so that we can use the equity (approximately the same amount available) whenever and however we want without having to provide any proof to the bank. Would a bank agree to this? Or would they say: No, in this condition it is not worth €200,000, you have to explain the renovation plan point by point to us and first use the equity for the purchase and then submit every invoice for the renovation.
you probably have something to say about this?

The most pragmatic approach would probably be to completely remove the beam ceiling and open up the ground floor all the way to the ridge.

That would then only be about 40m² of living space on the ground floor, but four stories (GF, 1st floor, attic, roof peak). So that can't work.

4-story (ground floor, first floor, attic floor, attic peak)

Remove every 2nd ceiling, so between the ground floor and first floor and between the attic floor and attic peak, could that work? If you really want to renovate completely, that is, to today's energy standards, unfortunately 200k is not much.