Ashlar plaster

The Vienna Palais Hoyos-Sprinzenstein with ashlar plaster on the lower two floors.

Vintner's house of the Holzhof Hoflößnitz with a grooved facade

Block plaster is created when plaster joints (also called plaster grooves or simply grooves ) are cut into the plaster before it has completely hardened by means of appropriately shaped joint irons, more or less richly profiled, imitating the structure of ashlar blocks . To this can be added the imitation of an edge stroke and a crowned head of the cuboid. The plaster grooves can be semicircular or triangular or square (trapezoidal).

Ashlar plaster is preferably applied to facades in front of the lower floors of buildings.

Plaster grooves can also be used individually; as a removing plaster structure, they represent the opposite of the plastering tape .

literature

• Plaster. In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 16. Leipzig 1908, p. 470.
• Grooving. In: Volker Helas (arrangement): City of Radebeul . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, Large District Town Radebeul (=  Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Saxony ). SAX-Verlag, Beucha 2007, ISBN 978-3-86729-004-3 , p. 342 .
• Grooving. In: Markus Hansel; Thilo Hansel; Thomas Gerlach (epilogue): In the footsteps of the Ziller brothers in Radebeul . Architectural considerations. 1st edition. Notschriften Verlag, Radebeul 2008, ISBN 978-3-940200-22-8 , p. 201 .