Service (architecture)
With service is related to the Romanesque and especially the Gothic architecture a comparatively slim quarter, half or three-quarter column , but also an En-Délit column (such. As the Choir of the Cathedral of Laon hereinafter) pillar one or appears to be in front of a wall. A group of small and large services that are arranged around a pillar core or on a wall is also known as a service bundle . A pillar surrounded by services more or less densely is also called a bundle pillar . Services continue into the belts or ridges or ribs of a vault and carry their loads.
history
Ancient or early medieval services are unknown; they first developed in Romanesque architecture , but continued into Gothic. The name appears for the first time in the weekly accounts of the Prague cathedral building in 1372/78 as “dinst” and was introduced into the architectural history literature by Georg Gottfried Kallenbach around the middle of the 19th century.
Conceptual differentiations
It is also differentiated between
- old services
- relatively strong continuations of the cross straps,
- young services
- comparatively slim continuations of the longitudinal straps and the diagonal ribs or cross ribs .
Alternatively, the terms “strong” and “weak” services are used.
Other authors, on the other hand, refer to the continuations of both the transverse and longitudinal belts as old services and only those of Gothic ribs as new services .
literature
- Ernst Gall : Service . In: Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte , Vol. 3, 1954, Sp. 1467–1479.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sentence after Günther Binding : What is Gothic? Darmstadt 2000, V.5. Round pillars, articulated pillars, bundle pillars , p. 227.
- ^ A b sentence after Wilfried Koch: Baustilkunde , 27th edition, Gütersloh / Munich, 2006, index service [171].
- ^ Reclam: Small dictionary of architecture . P. 100, fig. 79.
- ^ Sentence based on Fritz Baumgart: DuMont's small object dictionary of architecture. Cologne 1977, Lemma Dienst .