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Holzstube

English translation: wood-panelled sitting room

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German term or phrase:Holzstube
English translation:wood-panelled sitting room
Entered by: Martin Wenzel

17:00 Mar 24, 2009
German to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Tourism & Travel
German term or phrase: Holzstube
Unsere urige Holzstube mit Kachelofen, das Gastzimmer und Frühstücksraum laden zur gemütlichen Einkehrrast oder Übernachtung ein.

So this is part of a Berggasthof, mountain restaurant/hotel...I wonder what they mean by Holzstube...is it the room where the host and his guests sit in front of the open fire...what shall we call it????
Martin Wenzel
Germany
Local time: 21:36
wood-panelled sitting room
Explanation:
"We boast a faithful reconstruction of a "stua" ( a wood-panelled sitting room)..."
www.proz.com/kudoz/italian_to_english/history/936004-stua.h...

"A wood-panelled sitting room with an open fire"
http://guide.visitscotland.com/vs/guide/5,en,SCH1/objectId,A...
Selected response from:

Lonnie Legg
Germany
Local time: 21:36
Grading comment
Thank you.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +4wood-panelled sitting room
Lonnie Legg
3 +4wood-panelled / wooden parlour
Edith Kelly
3 +2wood-panel(l)ed lounge with tiled stove
Ingrid Moore
Summary of reference entries provided
Zur Info!
Helga Lemiere

  

Answers


3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +4
wood-panelled / wooden parlour


Explanation:
Alpina Huber Hubers Chalets Austria GasserDateiformat: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - HTML-Version
2 Schlafzimmer, große Holzstube mit. Kachelofen, Bad, sep. ... large wooden parlour with a tiled stove, ...... tic, partly wood panel ed apartments for ...
www.mayrhofen.at/fileadmin/mayrhofen/Bilder/Download_Area/H... - Ähnliche Seiten
Full text of "The Eastern Alps including the Bavarian Highlands ... - [ Holzstube, and thence proceed to the right over the Klausbach and ...... To the right is Weigr/iof (Inn, with old wood-panelling) with the ruined Weierburg. ...
www.archive.org/stream/easternalpsinclu00karlrich/easternal... -

Edith Kelly
Switzerland
Local time: 21:36
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 63

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Peter Craggs: Agree with wood-panelled (or wood lined) but not wooden parlour
2 mins
  -> thx, you are right Peter
agree  Inge Meinzer: wood-panelled
12 mins
neutral  Lonnie Legg: It's still used in UK, but Am.Oxf.Dict. says: "1. (DATED) a sitting room in a private house...." OTHERWISE: "a room in a public building for receiving guests"
21 mins
neutral  Helen Shiner: I would avoid parlour - it is very old-fashioned in the UK even; I can't imagine anyone using it outside a novel about the 19th century or earlier.
1 hr
agree  RegineMac: wood paneled room - yeah. check this out: www.willardwoodworks.com/portfolio/
3 hrs
agree  Jeanette Phillips: I would choose parlour in this case even if it is old fashioned, to give that sense of cosiness and tradition.
4 hrs
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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
wood-panelled sitting room


Explanation:
"We boast a faithful reconstruction of a "stua" ( a wood-panelled sitting room)..."
www.proz.com/kudoz/italian_to_english/history/936004-stua.h...

"A wood-panelled sitting room with an open fire"
http://guide.visitscotland.com/vs/guide/5,en,SCH1/objectId,A...



    Reference: http://ww.wbuch.de/Englisch-Woerterbuch/uebersetzen/stube.ht...
Lonnie Legg
Germany
Local time: 21:36
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 16
Grading comment
Thank you.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Helen Shiner: or living room
1 hr
  -> Thanks, Helen.
agree  Erika Berrai-Flynn: mit Helen
2 hrs
  -> Thanks, Erika.
agree  Murad AWAD: agree
3 hrs
  -> Thanks , Murad.
agree  hoare-spitall: Agree
15 hrs
  -> Thanks , hoare-spitall.
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
wood-panel(l)ed lounge with tiled stove


Explanation:
After an active day out, warm up in front of the tiled stove in the cozy Tirolean-style lounge while playing games or watching TV. Our apartments are furnished in traditional style with hand-carved furniture. We serve a substantial breakfast featuring organic produce in our wonderful wood-paneled lounge;
http://www.tirol.at/at/guide/146619sy,en,SCH1/objectId,ACC56...

wood panelled lounge;
cosy tile stove lounge;
http://www.timmelbauerhof.at/e-ausstattung.html;

Make yourself at home in our hotel. "Gemuetlichkeit" as far as the eye can see: a wood-paneled lounge with tiled stove and benchy/b>, a reading corner that dates back to 1923, rooms with pinewood furnishings and all contemporary comfort;
http://www.tiscover.at/at/guide/5,en,SCH1/objectId,ACC131589...



Ingrid Moore
Local time: 21:36
Works in field
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  lindaellen (X)
1 hr
  -> Thank you!
agree  gangels (X): since it's some sort of inn, lounge fits best
7 hrs
  -> Thank you!
neutral  Lonnie Legg: I'd go with "lounge" too--but it has too modern a ring for a Berggasthof, at least to my US-conditioned ear.
18 hrs
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Reference comments


13 hrs
Reference: Zur Info!

Reference information:
Normalerweise war die 'Holzzstube' in vergangenen Zeiten sehr oft auf Bauernhöfen zu finden, damals hatte diese auch die Funktion des 'Wohnzimmers - und Esszimmers''. Heute wird 'Holzstube' eher für den Tourismus verwendet; gilt auch als gemütliche Gaststube, nur ' Holzstube' kling uriger!!

Helga Lemiere
France
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in FrenchFrench
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