Schwibbogen (architecture)

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Schwibbögen above the Färbergaßl in Laufen ad Salzach.

When flying buttress or suspended arch arched components are denoted between buttresses and static one important buildings buttress form.

The arch, which is mostly horizontal in the axis, is walled over in such a way that a straight - mostly covered - conclusion results at the top. Candle arches serve to support opposing walls or buildings and can span entire streets. Candle arches are sometimes designed as a walkable connecting bridge between the upper floors of the supported houses.

In the Auvergnat Romanesque inner is Vierungsbereich by pulled down Arches emphasized ( Notre-Dame du Port in Clermont-Ferrand , priory Saint-Nectaire (Puy-de-Dôme) ), where the Carolingian church of Germigny-des-Prés (806) could have served as a model.

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literature

  • Oscar Mothes: Illustrirtes Bau-Lexikon. Volume 3 . Spamer, Leipzig 1868, p. 289 f. ( Online version , accessed December 17, 2014).
  • Oskar Pfeiffer, Helga Zoglman: art encyclopedia . PW Hartmann, Sersheim 1997, ISBN 3-9500612-0-7 ( online version , accessed December 17, 2014).
  • K. Thieme, R. Sommer, S. Wolfe: The great book of styles . Volume 5: "The Romanesque". Reinhard Welz Vermittler Verlag eK, Mannheim 2005, ISBN 3-938622-53-9 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oskar Pfeiffer, Helga Zoglman: art encyclopedia . PW Hartmann, Sersheim 1997, ISBN 3-9500612-0-7 ( online version , accessed December 17, 2014).
  2. ^ Oscar Mothes: Illustrirtes Bau-Lexikon. Volume 3 . Spamer, Leipzig 1868, p. 289 f. ( Online version , accessed December 17, 2014).