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This house is the oldest residential building still standing upright in the canton of Basel-Landschaft. A tree ring dating puts the date of the beams installed in the building in the winter of 1417/18. The erection of the house took place at that time, when the castles were already uninhabited and the Burggasse turned into a side street. The house is the only and oldest secular building of a non-seigniorial villager that is still almost completely preserved in the Basel area and far beyond the cantonal borders. It has a floor plan of originally 6 × 6.7 meters and two full floors. It thus represents the modest living and working conditions in the village at the time. It is the archetype of our half-timbered houses and an example of medieval building tradition. A large part of the southern gable has been preserved to this day!