
Historic wooden ceilings
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Almost all ceiling paintings preserved
No other building in Görlitz has such a good stock of historic wooden ceilings as the Schönhof. Eleven of the original 13 wooden ceilings from the late Gothic and Renaissance periods have been preserved in full or in large parts. The restoration has brought back the original colour schemes. Most of them date from the 16th and early 17th centuries.
The ornamentation was applied with distemper, sometimes using stencils.
In room 11, for example, the wooden ceiling shows the early Renaissance decoration with diamond and leaf tendril fields as well as braided bands on the underside of the beams. Friezes in the original preserved wall painting from around 1530 repeat motifs from the ceiling painting.
Room 4 on the first floor features a colourful Baroque wooden ceiling from around 1760, the most recently preserved ceiling painting in the Schönhof. It was also uncovered during the renovation of the museum and made accessible to the public.
The photos show the ceilings of rooms 2 (Görlitz in Silesia), 3 (From the Middle Ages), 4 (Conflict of Denominations), 6 (Baroque in Silesia), 7 (Stories from Silesia), 9 (Ballroom: The Prussian Period) and 11 (Silesian Porcelain).
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