Vintage German Weather House, Folk art. Hand painted

AVAILABLE and on offer - German Erzgebirge-style wooden weather house, commonly known as a German weather house, which traditionally features wooden figurines that move based on air humidity levels. If we look back in history, we find the first mention of a weather house in 1726 by Jacob Leupold, then it was mentioned in an encyclopaedia in 1735. This corresponds to the same time that cuckoo clocks were being made in the Black Forest. And of course, there was no forecaster to tell you the weather so weather houses were popular across Germany and Switzerland.

A German weather house works like this — two figurines dressed in traditional Bavarian clothing are inside a house with a thermostat in between to hide the mechanism that makes the figures turn. That mechanism uses animal or human hair under tension, which shrinks or relaxes based on humidity in the air. When the air is humid outside, the male figure will come out of the house by rotating on a platform. And when it's sunny and dry outside, the female figure will come out of the door. But keep in mind that if you live somewhere always wet and humid, you may never see the female figurine!

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