Lierne (architecture)

Liernen (center) on the late Gothic reticulated vault of the parish church of St. Oswald in Sankt Oswald-Möderbrugg ( Styria ).

Lerns on the vault of Bristol Cathedral connecting the tiercerons and the central keystones.

A Lierne designates a short side rib of the cross vault which the vertices of the Gewölbejochs d. H. does not affect the vault fighters.

The Lierne, borrowed from the French lierne ( probably from lier , for 'to bind'), can often be seen on late Gothic star vaults, like Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879), touching the apex of the vault , the vault keystone . in his Dictionnaire raisonné . It can also only connect the vault ribs emanating from the vault fighters without hitting the central point of the vault yoke. Such secondary ribs are often found on net and fan vaults, characteristic especially of the English Gothic.

The Liernen differ from the secondary ribs, known in French and English as tiercerons , in that they do not run from the vault.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Definition of "Lierne" . In: Duden online. Retrieved December 23, 2014.
2. ↑ Définition de «Lierne» . In: Center National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales. Retrieved December 23, 2016 (French).
3. ^ Eugène Viollet-le-Duc: Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle , B. Bance et A. Morel, Paris 1863, vol. 6, p. 177.
4. ^ Francis Bond: Gothic Architecture in England , Batsford, London 1905, pp. 340ff.