Peasant baroque
The peasant baroque is a popular style in European architecture and art that was used, for example, in East Hesse and Bavaria (18th century), but above all in southern Bohemia (19th and 20th centuries).
The peasant baroque was often based on and in contrast to the splendid “Catholic” baroque in Protestant parish churches and in other buildings, for example ceilings painted as cloudy skies, parapets decorated with floral motifs, air paintings on house walls.
The origin of the name “peasant baroque” has not been clearly established. It probably refers to chapels or smaller court churches painted by farmers.
A special form of the peasant baroque developed in the area around the Margrave residence of Bayreuth . Originally at the instigation of the margrave, sandstone farmhouses with baroque facades were built there in the 18th and 19th centuries. The special thing about it are the window aprons in many different forms.
In the vicinity of Bad Hersfeld (Hessen) there are richly furnished village churches with cloudy skies and depictions from the Old and New Testaments. Further examples can be found in Rhineland-Palatinate, for example in St. Goar-Biebernheim , which used to be Hesse, with its unusual tower roofing, and in Stipshausen , which belonged to the Wild and Rhine County until the end of the 18th century .
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- ↑ a b Evangelical Church of Kurhessen and Waldeck (ed.): Evangelical Peasant Baroque Churches in East Hesse . 2015 ( kirchen-paedagogik.de ).