Tails
The tailcoat roof is a special form of the gable roof , it is also referred to as "one-hip" or "one and a half grazing".
Description, use
With the roof shape of the tailcoat roof, the storey below the roof is missing on one side of the eaves. In the case of houses with eaves in closed residential areas, this is usually the back of the house. This clearly distinguishes the shape of the tailcoat roof from that of the towed roof .
Tailcoat roofs can be found in residential stable houses and apartment buildings in Upper Franconia, for example. B. among the monuments of Zell im Fichtelgebirge , Helmbrechts or Schwarzenbach an der Saale . The oldest known today, covered with a tailcoat roof house was built in 1421 in Bad Windheim, and the open air museum Bad Windheim in the years 1980-2000 translocated . It is a listed building under the number D-5-75-112-75 .
Examples
Kleinschwarzenbach : residential stable with thatched roof and half-timbered upper floor, 18th century
House with tailcoat roof, end of the 18th century
House with tailcoat roof, around 1800
Stable house with tailcoat roof and half-timbered upper floor in Martinlamitz
"Oldest" tails house
literature
- Bertram Popp: The tailcoat roof. Comments on a peculiar roof shape. 1993
- Bertram Popp: The tails roof in Upper Franconia. A fashion design of the 18th century. Pp. 91-101. In: Traces of use in historical buildings. Ed .: Working Group for House Research eV (AHF), Bad Sobernheim 2007
Web links
- Roof shapes. Tails
- Example: Half-timbered barn in a courtyard at the entrance to Lützelsdorf (Markt Pretzfeld , Forchheim district )
- Farmhouses (late Middle Ages) , section studded and multi-storey buildings (2nd paragraph) on historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Historical Lexicon of Bavaria
- ↑ The tailcoat roof in Upper Franconia. A fashionable construction method of the 18th century on baufachinformation.de