Window roofing

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Baroque roof (Pfarrhof Molln, Upper Austria)
A simple piece of cornice as a roof

A window canopy or a window crown is an architectural component. It serves to decorate the window or the facade, but also as weather protection .

description

The pediment of temples from antiquity is a model for ornamental gables in the Renaissance , Baroque , Classicism and Historicism . These ornamental gables are attached both above portals and above windows. Above the portals, these are called the tympanum and above the windows they are called the roof . The window roof emerges three-dimensionally and serves as decoration or ornament . The architectural component can consist of a piece of cornice as well as a single, cranked or split segment or triangular gable .

Examples

The monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany names various houses as examples of window roofing . For example the house at Heilbronner Werderstraße 142 (“window roofing on consoles”), the house at Werderstraße 150 (“canopy-crowned window roofing with stone carvings”) or the house at Heilbronner Wilhelmstraße 68 .

Facade views

literature

  • Wilfried Koch: Architectural style , p. 224 Florence, Palazzo Gondi, 1490-94, G. da Sangallo. [...] Horizontal roof. Rome, Palazzo della Cancelleria […], p. 225 […] Feston flower basket, horizontal window roofing […], p. 243 […] Volute roofing. Rococo. […], P. 310 […] inharmonious dimensions of niches and suspicion are a deliberate parody of the classical period (mannerism). Vicenza, Villa Rotonda (Villa Capra), beg. […], P. 332 […] bel-suspicion in the basement. […], P. 345 […] verdachung and […], p. 445 Verdachung (- * gable *); […], P. 451 […] variously modified via portal and window (= roofing) (Fig. 1) […], p. 491.
  • Hans Koepf , Günther Binding : Picture Dictionary of Architecture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 194). 3. Edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-520-19403-1 .

Web links

Commons : Window Awnings  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Julius Fekete , Simon Haag, Adelheid Hanke, Daniela Naumann: Stadtkreis Heilbronn . (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg, Volume I.5.). Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1988-3 , pp. 136 .