Water hammer (architecture)

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Double water hammer at the Frauenkirche in Memmingen

Water hammer is called a protruding bevel on the exterior, which serves to drain off water. This component has a beveled cover plate and a groove on the underside. A water hammer can often be seen on Gothic and Baroque churches. The water hammer, which runs along a wall as a cornice, is also known as the coffin cornice and usually leads around the buttresses . It often only occurs on the buttress itself, with this structural element being downgraded by the water hammer (see illustration).

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Baden-Württemberg II, 1997, p. 905 .
  • Günther Binding : Architectural Form Theory. 5th edition Darmstadt 2009, pp. 105, 190.