Cologne ceiling
The so-called Cologne ceiling refers to a construction made of ceiling beams and the floorboards above , which is completely covered with plaster . The undersides of the beams are often provided with stucco ornaments, while the ceiling surfaces between the beams are smoothly plastered, but sometimes there are stucco ornaments on them. The bar structure thus remains visible. The ends between two ceiling beams are semicircular in the Cologne ceiling. Cologne ceilings were very popular from the first half of the 17th century to the first third of the 18th century, especially in the Rhineland, but were then increasingly replaced by flat stucco ceilings, e.g. B. applied stucco moldings that form geometric ornaments on a smooth background, displaced. In historicism , i.e. in the second half of the 19th century, Cologne ceilings also became popular again in the course of the resumption of historical styles. For example, they were attached to structures that were modern at the time. Under the stucco therefore sometimes take place beam steel beam or beams of concrete .
The largest preserved ceiling of this type is in the Bayerisch Eisenstein train station in Bavaria.
Cologne ceiling in the Wasserburg Redinghoven .
Cologne ceiling in the Stroof house in Vilich .
Cologne ceiling in the electoral castle of Boppard
literature
- Barbara Rinn: The “Cologne ceiling” - a stucco bestseller from the Baroque era that was exported to the Netherlands. In Thomas Deres (ed.) Et al .: History in Cologne, 55. SH-Verlag GmbH, Cologne 2008. ISBN 978-3-89498-195-2
- Barbara Rinn: "We want that too ...". The "Cologne ceiling" as an export hit of the 17th century. In: Stefan Lewejohann (Ed.): Cologne in unholy times. Böhlau, Cologne 2014, pp. 111–116.
