Safranbolu

Houses

Safranbolu Houses are the most important building blocks of Turkish urban culture that has been living in a process of hundreds of years. 18th and 19th century. with 20th century. There are about 2000 traditional Turkish houses built in the beginning. About 800 of these works are under legal protection. The houses are grouped in two separate parts of Safranbolu. The first one is known as the olarak City “and used as a winter.

 

The city consists of the Kale, where the headquarters is located, the Çarşı where the shopping center is located, the Akçasu, Gümüş, Musalla, Kale Altı and Tabakhane districts where the houses are located. This section is located in two low-altitude valleys which are protected against the negative effects of climate. Here, the houses are close together, the streets are narrow. The vineyards are a few hundred meters higher, open to air currents and on larger terrains. Almost everyone has a winter cottage house. Local people live in the house in the winter in the winter and the summer weather in the summer house in the vineyard to migrate. However, sür Çarşı “production and trade life continues in summer.

 

All houses are more centrally located than public buildings, religious buildings and monuments. No matter what home you look at. Close to the facades of the houses are blind, the plan of the distant plan is open and they follow each other.

The streets and streets to the square in the middle of the city are completely cobbled. The courtyards and squares of the monuments are also cobbled. The existing stone cladding style is suitable for minimizing moisture, resistant to flood waters and suitable for receiving sufficient water from tree roots.

 

The three main elements that determine the size and form of the Safranbolu house can be mentioned: Large family structure, rainy climate, cultural and material wealth. A husband and wife in a family normally have two or three children. When a son is married, a separate house will not be opened. The family, including uncles, daughters, aunts and grandchildren, all live together in a house. In order to help the woman at home, most of the houses are adopted. The adopted daughter is seen as the daughter of the house.

 

Safranbolu houses are the most beautiful examples of traditional Turkish architecture. Safranbolu houses are designed to be respectful to the environment. A house does not cover the other house. The excess of rainfall requires long fringes and perfect construction of the roofs. Some houses have 2 separate entrances for women and men.

 

The ground floor of the house is covered with stone. On the ground floors there are also stables, large boiler furnaces and warehouses. The second floor is lower than the other floors. On this floor there is a kitchen and rooms which can also be used as a bedroom. There is a cylindrical wooden ferris wheel used in catering between the kitchen and the salute. Everyday life passes on the middle floor. This floor is easier to heat. The third floor of the Safranbolu house is the point of excellence. The ceilings on this floor are higher. In this direction, there are gusülhaneler in wooden cabinets in every room. The elders of the family live on this floor. Even the seating arrangement in the rooms is connected to a hierarchy.

Each room at the Safranbolu houses is well prepared for a family. It is generally divided into two types as summer and winter. In the winter houses bazaar area, the height of the sea is between 300-320 meters. Generally, 2-storey entrance section of the entrance to the big kitchen in the entrance of the garden is located in the section of the quarry when you go upstairs on the first section of the sofa section and the rooms are opened to this section due to the gusülhaneler in rooms. On the second floor, the rooms are more welcoming than the ones we call the head room. Rooms in the beginning of some rooms in the private rooms have been used in the private pool sounds were not heard from outside the house to meet the needs of the house and in emergency situations such as fire was used for garden irrigation. Haremlik and selamlık sections were used in the service cabinet. Thus, in crowded guests, men and women can serve each other without seeing each other. The purpose of the houses is that all individuals living in the house can live without disturbing each other's peace and respect.