Průzkumy památek 2020, 27(2):135-147 | DOI: 10.56112/pp.2020.2.09

Doors and Windows as Style Joinery Elements of the Log Buildings in the Plzeň Region

Stanislav Plešmíd, Karel Foud

Národní památkový ústav, územní odborné pracoviště v Plzni

Numerous log buildings - houses, granaries, cowsheds, storerooms, barns, and others - enriched the collection of historical vernacular buildings in western Bohemia. They are found in the north and south of the Plzeň Region and the city of Plzeň as well as in the Rokycany, Klatovy, and Domažlice regions. They are made of carefully hewed beams and logs, left without plaster or chinked with clay. Many of them are very old, mostly from the second half of the 18th and first half of the 19th century. Some are of exceptional historical quality, many times being the last representatives of common farming buildings in the past. In addition to doors, style windows attract one's attention; they are single or double and sometimes equipped with original fittings.
There are relatively few documented style joinery elements in the vernacular environment of the Plzeň Region; the overwhelming majority of them vanish without being discovered and studied, in detail or briefly. The authors of this study seek to date the joinery elements also with the help of dendrochronology.

Keywords: Vernacular architecture - log buildings - historical fillings of building openings - windows - door - purposefulness and artistic expression

Published: December 15, 2020  Show citation