No, actually if you read it again it fits perfectly.
no, such kind of old (former/abandoned) farm buildings is just typical for old German villages.
A caveat though is that this village is in the middle of nowhere in the former Eastern part of Germany, which still is structurally weak.
Whatever man, explain that to spaniards - most of them "store" all their wealth in bricks for decades, because all of them believed that "bricks will always hold value", and now they lost 70% of their wealth from 2006 till today, and still going down, and it's almost impossible to sell any house ATM in Spain.
Bricks, like everything else, will lose value at some point.