Five-eighth ending

Five-eighth closing (Heidenturmkirche in Alsheim)

The five -eighth closure (also: five-eighth closure or ⁵ ⁄ ₈ closure ) is a variant of the polygonal closure of a choir in church architecture .

description

From the floor plan as a regular octagon -scale form of the choir five-eighths to be built; the other three sides of the octagon form the opening towards the choir and nave .

In the case of a long choir, in which the side walls are longer than the octagonal sides of the choir closure, the parallel outer built-over sides of the octagon can also be counted towards the side walls, after the remaining three sides the designation three -eighth closure (or three-eighths) Closing or ³ ⁄ ₈ closing ).

The five - eighth key was preferred in Gothic and Neo-Gothic church architecture in continental Western Europe .

variants

The ⁷ ⁄ ₁₀ end (e.g. at the Elisabethkirche in Marburg ), the ⁷ ⁄ ₁₂ end ("Hasenkamp" at the Paderborn Cathedral ) or the ⁹ ⁄ ₁₄ end (am Aachen Cathedral ).

The English Gothic, however, preferred the rectangular choir . A rectangular choir or a (half) round end of the choir already marked the Romanesque church building.

Examples of the choir degrees mentioned

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  Five-eighths end of Dijon Cathedral

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  Three-eighths end of the Waldzell parish church

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  ⁷ ⁄ ₁₀ -Closure of the Elisabethkirche Marburg

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  ⁷ ⁄ ₁₂ closing at Paderborn Cathedral

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  ⁹ ⁄ ₁₄ close at Aachen Cathedral

literature

• Wilfried Koch : Architectural style. European architecture from antiquity to the present. Special edition. Orbis Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-572-05927-5 , p. 403.
• Wilfried Koch: A brief history of architecture. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1967, pp. 95–96 ( small advice books , several editions).