Busung

Groin vault in the ruins of St. Nicolai Church in Visby ( Gotland )

"Anjou vault" in Angers Cathedral

Miranda do Douro co-cathedral , Portugal

In architecture, the term busung is understood to mean a spherical bulging of the vault caps in cross vaults in church buildings.

description

A cross vault is divided into four "caps" by the diagonal ridges or ribs; when these are bulged, one speaks of busted caps. If the vault is entirely bulged, so that it rises towards the center of the vault, it is called a “busted vault”, as is the case with the domical vault (dome-like raised rib vault).

Examples

• Katharinenkirche of the former Augustinian monastery in Aachen
• St. Maria zur Höhe in Soest
• Arching of early Gothic components in numerous Mecklenburg village churches (including Altkalen , Basse , Bellin , Hohen Mistorf , Hohen Sprenz , Jördenstorf , Kavelstorf , Kessin , Mestlin , Petschow , Sanitz , Wattmannshagen )
• The so-called “Anjou vaults” in Angers and the surrounding area are particularly significant in terms of architectural history .
• Several major churches in Portugal have bused vault caps (z. B. Cathedral of Leiria , Co-Cathedral of Miranda do Douro , former Cathedral of Elvas ).

literature

• Norbert Nussbaum: German church architecture of the Gothic. Development and designs. DuMont, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-7701-1415-9 .
• Gert-Rainer Grube, Aribert Kutschmar: Structures from the Romanesque to the present. A picture manual. Huss-Medien / Verlag Bauwesen, Berlin, 4th edition 2004, ISBN 3-345-00817-3 .

Footnotes

1. ^ Wilhelm Rave : The Domikalgewölbe . In: Deutsche Kunst und Denkmalpflege , vol. 13 (1955), pp. 33–43.