Hessenmann
Hessenmann (middle of the 1st and middle of the 2nd floor) at the town hall in Melsungen
Hessenmann (middle of all three floors, Hintergasse 10, Gudensberg )
The Hessenmann (also: Hessischer Mann ) is next to the wild man a typical figure in the Hessian half-timbered house . The name is said to have only been introduced or at least become popular in the 1980s by the Hessenpark open-air museum . The Hessen man is said to have had a disaster-preventing function in historical popular belief.
The “wild man” appears as an abstract figure of a person with arms stretched out and legs spread apart. Further developed struts with head struts shortened to head angle wood with three-quarter-story high foot struts are called "Hessenmann" or simply "Mann".
See also
literature
- Oskar Schmolitzky: On the problem of the "Hessen man" in half-timbered houses , Hessische Heimat, 23rd year 1973, issue 3, pp. 84–91