A Treppenspeicher (literally "staircase store") is the German term for a granary or secondary farm building used for storage and is typical of the Lüneburg Heath area in northern Germany.
Their solid, wooden construction ensured that the interior stayed dry and they were so tightly planked that the stored produce was protected from mice.
In former times there was at least one, but usually several, stores on each heath farm, serving all sorts of purposes.
They were used to store grain, buckwheat, flax, cotton, linen, wool, honey, meat, bacon, and clothes.
Today, Treppenspeicher may be visited at the following places on the Lüneberg Heath:[1]