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 | The Plan of St. Gall |  |
KARL GUSTAV STEPHANI, 1902-1903, AND
CHRISTIAN RANCK, 1907
Henning refrained from embodying his ideas about the
St. Gall house in a visual form, and in the fifty years that
followed, this theory found neither support nor acceptance.
The views expressed in Karl Gustav Stephani's encyclopedic
work on the early German dwelling and its furnishings,[38]
as well as those in Christian Ranck's percursory but
widely read cultural history of the German farmhouse,[39]
are literal repetitions of Julius von Schlosser and show that
273. BILSDORF (HAUTE SURE), LUXEMBOURG. PERSPECTIVE VIEW
AUTHORS' RECONSTRUCTION
K. Vestibule with damaged crushed rubble floor.
L. Water basin reached from K by steps paved in square brick.
M. Entrance hall with concrete floor of limestone, broken brick, and sand on a
dry-stone bed.
N. Rain catch-basin (impluvium) set in a square of opus signinum; the rest of
the atrium was paved with red clay. (Judging from the many pieces of
slate found scattered through the atrium, we may assume the house was
roofed in slate.)
Figure 273:
Of square plan but for the generous setback of the entrance wing, the villa's
size (over 80 × 80 feet on the ground floor) and its double-storied corner wings
made it a structure of imposing presence. The reconstruction above is based on
Malget's description, which holds a wealth of specific detail.
German house was still entirely under the spell of the
thinking of the classicist. But in the third decade of this
century, the method that Henning had initiated, namely,
that of attempting to reconstruct the St. Gall house in the
light of its modern derivatives rather than of its historical
prototypes, found a sudden revival in a number of visual
reconstructions that marked a complete departure from
the thinking of the classical school. These reconstructions
(figs. 277-281) came from the hands of men who were not
primarily historians but professional architects, and they
were the product of intuitive speculation rather than of
documentative historical study. The first of these was made
by H. Fiechter-Zollikofer in 1936.
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