Tiedexer Straße 16 , Einbeck
Colorful gems in the form of wooden fan rosettes richly embellish the facade of the three-story half-timbered house at Tiedexer Straße 16 in Einbeck, Germany.
A fan rosette was one of the decorative wood carvings of the Weser Renaissance during the early 1530s in Lower Saxony. It has sections that resemble a fan. Aside from the semi-circular shape, there is also a quarter circle.
One or two circular arches surround a fan rosette. These arches are either a wooden braided ribbon called a dew ribbon or a wooden strip. The center of a fan rosette has a semi-circular bead.
Fan rosettes are commonly placed on posts and foot bands. These bands are diagonal braces that sit on thresholds and form trapezoidal sides. Also, fan rosettes are used as spandrels to fill up the spaces between the curves of an archway.
The year '1543' was engraved in mixed lowercase and uppercase Roman numerals (Mdxliii) below the archway.
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