Longhouses in Europe

Archaeologists and anthropologists have identified two longhouse types in Europe; now both are extinct.

One was the Neolithic long house type introduced around 5000 BC (7000 years ago) with the pioneer farmers of central and Western Europe. The other longhouse type was the Germanic cattle farmer longhouses that came up along the southwestern North Sea coast in the third or fourth century BC. This type is probably the forerunner of the many medieval house types such as the Scandinavian langhus, the English, Welsh and Scottish longhouse variants and the German and Dutch Fachhallenhaus.

Among the medieval longhouse types of Europe that have continued to exist, the Scandinavian or Viking Langhus, the southwest England variants in Dartmoor and Wales, The northwest England type in Cumbria, The Scottish Longhouse, “Black house” or taighean dubha, The Frisian Langhuis and The French longère or maison longue (with different versions from different origins) are noteworthy.

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