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, dating back to 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.
Aside from the fan rosettes, this half-timbered house features various wooden carvings, such as a hexafoil knot—a decorative knot made up of six interconnected loops that creates a rosette pattern. Other carvings include six-pointed and five-pointed stars, a crossbow, clovers, and an envious head, too.
The archway has a bead-throat-dew ribbon profile. This profile is an architectural element that usually decorates an archway, door frame, portal, or cornice.
The bead has a raised surface with a half-round or three-quarter-round cross-section. The throat, on the other hand, has a concave, hollowed-cut surface. It is the recess between two elements or profiles. The dew ribbon is just like the braided ribbon surrounding a fan rosette.
The year '1543' was engraved in mixed lowercase and uppercase Roman numerals (Mdxliii) below the archway.
Trade symbols, such as the crescent knife and the shoemaker's pub, can be seen above the archway. The symbols indicate that the owner was a shoemaker. The name on the right of the shoemaker's pub symbol could be the name of the owner (KORT JCKH~). Due to renovations that have taken place over the past centuries, only a portion of the surname is still recognizable.
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