Parlier

Parlier mark on the parish church in Allmendingen

Parlier , Parlierer, Palier or Parler is the late medieval job title on which the New High German sounding Polier is based, of the "spokesman for carpenters, stonemasons, masons, etc." The word is a takeover from the old French parlier , speaker; who speaks well or a lot '.

The parlier was usually trained as a sculptor , represented the head of the building works in his absence and, in addition to supervisory activities, also took on the instruction of young stonemasons .

The name of the great master builder Peter Parler (1330-1399) is a variant of Parlier.

Individual evidence

↑ Hans Koepf , Günther Binding : Picture Dictionary of Architecture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 194). 5th, revised and supplemented edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-520-19405-3 .
↑ Wolfgang Pfeifer : Etymological Dictionary of German. 2 volumes. 2nd, reviewed and supplemented edition Academy, Berlin 1993, p. 1024.

[1] Hans Koepf , Günther Binding : Picture Dictionary of Architecture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 194). 5th, revised and supplemented edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-520-19405-3 .

[2] Wolfgang Pfeifer : Etymological Dictionary of German. 2 volumes. 2nd, reviewed and supplemented edition Academy, Berlin 1993, p. 1024.