Need help! Is this wall load-bearing or not? 1900s house. It's the yellow area I'm referring to (plan from '79). There is no wall on the original plan.

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No, the walls within the yellow area are certainly not load-bearing. In this house, the load-bearing is in the thick masonry walls.
 
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J justusandersson said:
No, the walls within the yellow area are certainly not load-bearing. In this house, the load is supported by the thick masonry walls.
How do you know? I've spoken to several different people but received different answers.

It was masonry, plaster, and 70x180 planks in the middle, chicken wire, etc.

Some say it may have become load-bearing over time if other walls have been demolished, or it could have been added to "reinforce" and therefore isn't on the drawings.

According to the drawings, it's not load-bearing though. I don't want to risk the neighbor's floor above settling.. What should I do? Demolish or not?
 
The original drawing shows that your apartment was once a locale of some sort, maybe a store, with two rooms and no kitchen. Exit toward the street, in a window section. The toilet was an outhouse in the courtyard. The locale was later converted into an apartment, with the inner room divided into a kitchen, entrance, and closets/pantry. It's some of these later walls that you're in the process of demolishing. They are not original, but perhaps (wild guess) still up to 100 years old. They do not have a load-bearing function.
 
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