VILLAGES: Birelerhaff-Birth site of my great-grandmother-Margareta Beyen-Lucius
Description:
This is today a national monument in Luxembourg. It is one of the few remaining haffs or hoffs-an agricultural community in which many lived together in a large house with attached quarters for animals.Family oral history has it that it was Maragreta's chore as a young girl to let the cattle out the opening in the walls surrounding this hoff. It included a schoolhouse and a chapel, so constituted a rather complete agricultural settlement.