No. 371
Around 1808, Detligen counted fifteen day labourers with very small landholdings in addition to eight farmers. The day labourers were employed on large farms and were dependent on further supplementary sources of income.

The day-labourer’s house is basically a scaled-down version of a full-sized farmhouse. It contains all the parts of a multi-purpose farmhouse. It has living quarters with a parlour, a smaller parlour and a kitchen, a threshing floor and a shed for livestock with a hayloft. This house is a post and beam construction with posts extending from the ground all the way up to the ridge beam. The rooms are separated partly by planks and partly by wattle and daub. Despite the widely projecting roof, the interior rooms are decidedly small. More than a dozen people often had to share the parlour and kitchen. The stall would have been hardly big enough for one cow. The «poor people’s cow» was the goat.
Life and work in this house probably did not follow a very orderly pattern. Day labourers had to adapt to the different challenges that life presented each day. In addition to farming, they also carried on various trades. The last inhabitant was a basket-weaver. One of many handicrafts performed in the customer’s home by door-to-door craftspeople, wooden pipe drilling, is shown in the small threshing room. Wooden water-pipes were called «Teuchel».