9. Hauptstrasse 16 and 18

9. Hauptstrasse 16 and 18

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Photo: Hanspeter Meier

The usually round barn door is rectangular here, 1914. Photo: Museums Muttenz, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Hauptstrasse No. 18, The new window to the right is located where the former stable door used to be. Photo: Museums Muttenz, CC BY-SA 4.0.

No. 16/18/20, from l. to r., Before renovation.

Photo: Museums Muttenz, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Photo: Gerd Haefeli, Museums Muttenz, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the background the branch of the Schweizerische Kreditanstalt SKA (Crédit Suisse). Museums Muttenz, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Typical small farmhouse with livestock. Left: residential wing with access through the barn door. In front of the Gothic parlour window there is the access to the cellar. Museums Muttenz, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The farmhouse No. 16 dates from the 17th century and has Gothic windows on the ground floor and a lancet stable door. In 1975 the building was rebuilt. At the same time the farmhouse No. 18 included in the construction. House 18 was a small farmer's house with an untypically rectangular barn door.
Here, only the economic parts were used differently due to the conversion. The residential parts remained as such.