Marienfeld pillar

Marienfeld pillar in the crossing of the former Marienfeld monastery church

In architecture , the Marienfeld pillar is a cross-shaped pillar to which half-columns are placed. In addition, round services set. Optically, angular and round shapes alternate. This type of pillar, widespread in late Romanesque and early Gothic architecture in Europe, appears for the first time in Westphalia at the church of the Marienfeld monastery . From there it spread and can be found on several Westphalian and Lower Saxon buildings from the middle of the 13th century. The pillar is only given this name in these buildings related to the Marienfeld example.

Further examples

image	church	place
	Paderborn Cathedral	Paderborn
	St. Cyriac	Geseke
	St. John the Baptist	Billerbeck
	St. Aegidius	Berne

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• Bremen Lower Saxony . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , p. 215 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 56 '44.6 "  N , 8 ° 16'53.9"  E