Six-place

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Rose window on Cologne Cathedral

The six-place , like the eight-place, is a proportion key for Gothic architecture . The six-point consists of a circle and two inner, intersecting equilateral triangles . The six-digit code was mainly used in medieval construction works . The root word “place” means “corner” in the old medieval language of the stonemasons . So six-place means a key with six corners ( hexagon ), which is formed from the triangles. These are similar to the Star of David (Type 1), but without necessarily being in the context . In tracery Gothic window that is not uncommon. There such windows are also called six pass . There is also the term hexagram . There are also six types in which the parallels resulting from the intersection of the triangles are vertical (type 2), as for example in the tracery of the windows of the nave and the east choir of the cathedral in Reims .

There are also towers and a. for fortifications with a hexagonal floor plan. At least that's the case with the Brandenburg ruins .

  • Six-place type 1

  • Six-place type 2

literature

  • Günther Binding : tracery . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1989, ISBN 3-534-01582-7 .
  • Wolfgang Kamke: Pentagram, hexagram and octagon in churches of the Cistercians and other churches . Berlin 2003.