Carpenter Gothic
As a carpenter's Gothic , the equipment elements created in the neo-Gothic z. B. denotes altars and pulpits of churches.
style
The term was initially used disparagingly for church furniture that imitated the Gothic style . The term plug Gothic was also used. The objects, such as altars, pulpits, communion and church pews and organ prospectuses are made up of flat basic elements that were created by carpenters and on which elaborate carvings were then attached. These elements are usually lavishly framed and partially decorated with gold leaf .
In the 1950s and 1960s, many pieces of furniture of this type were removed and destroyed during the “purification”, ie the removal of elements that were foreign to the style in the course of the preservation of monuments and the restoration of the churches. Andreas Menrad describes this procedure in terms of monument preservation as thoughtless vandalism .
Examples
- Liebfrauenmünster in Wolframs-Eschenbach
- St. Leonhard Church in Echlishausen
- St. Jodok in Landshut , altar by Anselm Sickinger
Individual evidence
- ↑ page 27 (PDF; 4.8 MB)
- ↑ Joachim Hennze: Strict and beautiful. Protestant churches in the Heilbronn district in the style change of the 19th century . In: Christhard Schrenk, Peter Wanner (eds.): Heilbronnica 3. Contributions to town and regional history . (= Sources and research on the history of the city of Heilbronn 17 and yearbook for Swabian-Franconian history 35), Heilbronn, 2006 ( online )
- ↑ Newsletter Monument Preservation Editorial ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 6.2 MB)
