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A bakehouse is a building for baking bread. The term may be used interchangeably with the term "
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File:2006 Dirmstein-Backhaus.jpg, The Bakehouse (Dirmstein), Germany
File:Four a pain maison cornec.jpg, An oven-house (''four a pain maison''), Saint-Rivoal, France
File:2007-05-18 Backhaus, Goennern, IMG 8134.jpg, A town bakehouse, Gönnern, Germany
File:Four Charlot.jpg, A village bakehouse,
A bakehouse is a building for baking bread. The term may be used interchangeably with the term "bakery
A bakery is an establishment that produces and sells flour-based baked goods made in an oven such as bread, cookies, cakes, doughnuts, bagels, Pastry, pastries, and pies. Some retail bakeries are also categorized as Coffeehouse, cafés, servi ...
", although the latter commonly includes both production and retail areas.
Designated bakehouses can be found in archaeological sites from ancient times, e.g., in Roman forts
''Castra'' () is a Latin term used during the Roman Republic and Roman Empire for a military 'camp', and ''castrum'' () for a 'fort'. Either could refer to a building or plot of land, used as a fortified military base.. Included is a discuss ...
.''Housesteads Roman Fort
Housesteads Roman Fort was an auxiliary fort on Hadrian's Wall, at Housesteads, Northumberland, England. It is dramatically positioned on the end of the -long crag of the Whin Sill over which the Wall runs, overlooking sparsely populated hil ...
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homestead
Homestead may refer to:
*Homestead (building), a farmhouse and its adjacent outbuildings; by extension, it can mean any small cluster of houses
* Nguni homestead, a cluster of houses inhabited by a single extended family, typically with a kraal ...
s; communal, used by residents of a village or a town, and commercial.
Some of them used to be nothing but a huge oven, called ''oven-houses''.
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Saint-Nicolas-de-Macherin
Saint-Nicolas-de-Macherin () is a commune in the Isère department within Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in southeastern France. The area of the commune is 1,060 hectares and the altitude lies between 447 and 952 meters.
The town is located 5 km ...
, France
See also
*Tandoor
A tandoor ( or ) is a large vase-shaped oven, usually made of clay. Since antiquity, tandoors have been used to bake unleavened flatbreads, such as roti (as well as leavened ones, such as naan) and to roast meat. Tandoors are predominantly use ...
* Communal oven
The ''four banal'' (English: common oven) was a feudal institution in medieval France. The feudal lord (French: ''seigneur'') often had, among other banal rights, the duty to provide and the privilege to own all large ovens within his fief, each ...
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