Kink helmet

In architecture, the articulated helmet is the variant of a pointed helmet - roof shape (also spire, helmet roof, roof helmet, largely used synonymously) for towers with a polygonal floor plan . This roof shape is often found on church towers .

In the case of the buckled helmet, the edges of its base on the top of the wall of the tower shaft rise at a relatively flat angle like a tent roof , then "bend" and taper upwards several times higher at a steep angle.

Examples

Four sided approach

Examples of spiers with late Gothic buckled helmets, the four-sided approach sitting flush with the upper wall with a narrow cornice and so evenly overhangs the tower shaft a little, while the roof parts tapering towards the top are also different, e.g. B. can change into an octagonal shape:

• Maria Magdalenen Church in Bad Bramstedt
• Collegiate Church of St. Peter and John the Baptist in Berchtesgaden
• Great St. Martin in Cologne
• Nikolaus Chapel (Cologne)
• Collegiate and parish church of St. Petrus and Paulus at the Obermarsberg monastery
• St. Katharina (Wenau)

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  Maria Magdalenen Church in Bad Bramstedt

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  Collegiate Church in Berchtesgaden

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  Great St. Martin in Cologne

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  Nikolaus Chapel in Cologne

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  Collegiate and parish church of St. Petrus and Paulus at the Obermarsberg monastery

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  Church of St. Katharina in Wenau

Eight-sided approach

The bent helmet of the village church in Porep has an eight-sided approach, which overhangs the top of the wall with four corners:

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  Village church in Porep

See also

• Julius Echter Tower
• Buckling pyramid

literature

• Sabine Heuser-Hauck: The architect Heinrich Krings (1875-1925). Dissertation, Philosophical Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 2005. For examples of Knickhelm spiers see pp. 64, 221, 266 of 400 pages of the PDF file ( online on the pages of ULB Bonn )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans Koepf , Günther Binding : Picture Dictionary of Architecture. With English, French, Italian and Spanish technical glossaries. Kröner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-520-19404-X .
2. ^ Sabine Heuser-Hauck: The architect Heinrich Krings (1875–1925). For an example of the Knickhelm spire with a transition to an octagonal shape, see p. 221 of 400 pages of the PDF file ( online on the ULB Bonn website )
3. ^ Maria Magdalenen Church - tower with buckled helmet - significant , contribution to German Foundation for Monument Protection , online at denkmalschutz.de
4. ↑ Sankt Nikolaus-Kapelle , online at stadt-koeln.de
5. ↑ Cultural landscape specialist contribution to the regional plan for the administrative region of Arnsberg , including LVR Hrsg., See section on Catholic parish church St. Peter and Paul, Marsberg-Obermarsberg, Am Stift 10 , PDF file p. 207 of 216 pages, online at lwl.org
6. ↑ Christoph Kühn: Catholic parish church Sankt Katharina in Wenau , on behalf of the LVR Environment Department, 2012, online at kuladig.de