“I really have to praise them,” said roof panel maker Peter Bucher from network craft at the workshop with the fourth graders from the World Heritage Middle School Bad Goisern, “Because they are so interested”. In fact, after a short trip to the neighborhood of the Hand.Werk.Haus, where these roof panels have been in service for decades, twelve roof panels were made by the students. “It’s also about the simplicity of the craft,” says Peter, which offers us homemade solutions. The “old” fully functional record machine was provided by Christian Laimer from Strobl and is on display in the Hand.Werk.Haus until the beginning of November - Craft FAIR binds generations and eras...
From impact tables and R-plates
Stories that the craft writes...
Peter Bucher is a record maker from Fieberbrunn. It may be the last of its kind in Europe. By panels we primarily mean roof panels, which he produces by hand using a process that was widespread between around 1850 and 1950. This refers to the “cement slabs” that were also widespread in the Salzkammergut and were often made by the “house builders” themselves.
Peter Bucher was brought to St. Wolfgang in 2018. A building with old cement panels should be re-roofed according to the original template. However, it didn't just stop with the production of the diamond-shaped panels and their laying - they started talking about panel making and the panel makers who had existed in the area and... they found what they were looking for at Christian Laimer in Strobl: there was still an old beater table there shaped sheets. Peter Bucher took on this record machine because he was passionate about it. He wants to preserve and pass on the knowledge and skills about these roof panels, including the countless shapes that existed across Europe. He prepared the Laimer hand table and made it usable again, including the mold plates for the folding plates made with it. And then an order came from Wendland in northern Germany, 6200 folding plates for a listed building in a Rundling village, which were actually struck and drawn on Laimer's impact table.
Now this machine is returning to the Salzkammergut. From June 23rd it will be on display in the special exhibition Handwerk FAIRbindet in the Hand.Werk.Haus in Bad Goisern. The vision: to use the impact table again in the region and, for example, to produce our own roof panels with students. Ultimately a piece of self-made sustainable building culture.
