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Bürgerhaus

English translation: burgher house

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German term or phrase:Bürgerhaus
English translation:burgher house
Entered by: Lingua.Franca

20:54 May 13, 2009
German to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Tourism & Travel / tourist brochure
German term or phrase: Bürgerhaus
Dieses B�rgerhaus in der Michaelisstra�e 10, das die Erfurter Patrizierfamilie von Milwitz in den Jahren 1534 bis 1561 umbauen lie�, geht auf weit �ltere Vorg�ngerbauten zur�ck. Die Anlage ist noch gut erhalten und wird seit der Sanierung �ffentlich als Kulturhof genutzt. Wechselnde Ausstellungen im ehemaligen Waidspeicher in der tiefen Hofanlage und im Wohnhaus ziehen das Interesse der Besucher an.
Rachel Taylor
burgher house
Explanation:
Not to be confused with Kebab and Burger House :-)
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Lingua.Franca
Spain
Local time: 00:54
Grading comment
thanks
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +6burgher house
Lingua.Franca
4 +2town house (s) (mostly occupied by merchant families)
Ellen Kraus
4 -1residence of mercentile (bourgeois) family
Erich Friese
3civic center
sssk
1 +1patrician house / patrician town house
andres-larsen


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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
town house (s) (mostly occupied by merchant families)


Explanation:
I would say

Ellen Kraus
Austria
Local time: 00:54
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 20

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Helen Shiner: 'town house' would be my choice - it is understood that it would have been built for and lived in by a bourgeois/merchant/middle-class family
9 mins
  -> thank you, Helen
neutral  ArnoTranslat (X): Town house is a term used in the USA to describe a two-story condominium.
22 mins
  -> USA usage is no reason for me to to term the object differently !
agree  Harald Moelzer (medical-translator)
3 days 23 hrs
  -> thank you, Harald !
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
residence of mercentile (bourgeois) family


Explanation:
Bürgerhaus n
1. historisches Wohnhaus: town house (oder residence); öffentliches Gebäude: village (oder community) hall
2. altm. (Bürgerfamilie) family of the mercantile class, bourgeois family
© Langenscheidt KG, Berlin und München

Bürgerhaus n citizen's hall, public house



Erich Friese
Australia
Local time: 08:54
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 20

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Susan Welsh: mercantile (sp)
1 hr
neutral  ArnoTranslat (X): that's a good description (and the typo is no reason to disagree). I do find burgher house more to the point, though
1 hr
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +6
burgher house


Explanation:
Not to be confused with Kebab and Burger House :-)


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Lingua.Franca
Spain
Local time: 00:54
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 16
Grading comment
thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ingeborg Gowans (X): haha! but I would havepreferred this term as well
14 mins
agree  John Fenz
23 mins
agree  ArnoTranslat (X): hits the nail on the head
1 hr
agree  franglish
9 hrs
agree  Ingrid Moore
15 hrs
agree  Alexander Fischer (X)
19 hrs
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47 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5 peer agreement (net): +1
patrician house / patrician town house


Explanation:
patrician house / patrician town house

sources:

Munich & the Best of Bavaria - In this large 13th-century house. “fork man”). The Old Town's skyline is dominated by ...... is a Late Gothic hall church. note the Bürgerhaus (1568).50. ...... It is in a large patrician house next to the Rathaus and hosts the famed ...
www.scribd.com/doc/12345169/Munich-the-Best-of-Bavaria - 977k -

Munich & the Best of Bavaria - This was the first Baroque house in town and erected in 1736 by the wealthy Paris ...... note the Bürgerhaus (1568). and the natural beauty is serene. ...... Königstraße leads up to the St. It is in a large patrician house next to the ...
www.scribd.com/doc/12345300/Munich-the-Best-of-Bavaria - 969k -

Destination Guides: Germany, Cologne - Visiting the City - This small theater is a part of the Bürgerhaus Stollwerck, or Stollwerck Community ... Bendedikt von Schwelm built the Patrician House for the rich Cologne ...
www.oag.com/travel-guides/destination/germany/cologne/visit... -

[PDF] STÄDTE- UND ROUTENBESCHREIBUNGEN TOWN AND ROUTE DESCRIPTIONS ... - : PDF/Adobe Acrobat - HTML
including state opera house with ballet company under the direction of John Niemeier, ... Schwede, the town's oldest patrician mansion (around. 1380). Fine examples of domestic ... und ältestem Bürgerhaus „Alter Schwede“ (um 1380); ...
www.deutsches-kuestenland.de/images/de/kuestenland/hansesta... -

Eisenach travel guide - This is believed to be Eisenach's oldest Patrician town house. This property has also been linked to the arrival of St. Elisabeth and the medieval singing ...
www.world66.com/europe/germany/thuringia/eisenach - 35k -

Sleeping beauties | Travel | The Guardian - 10 Jan 2004 ... Stylish maison d'hôtes in the picturesque old town of Ile de Ré, offshore from ... Patrician house (historic monument), near market square. ...
www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2004/jan/10/hotels.guardiansaturd... - 113k -

andres-larsen
Venezuela
Local time: 18:54
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Polangmar
827 days
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
civic center


Explanation:
that's what we call them in Australia

sssk
Local time: 23:54
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