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Front doors

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Doors,

Front doors and interior doors, as well as entrance doors and barn gates – handmade with expressive carved ornaments or reliefs by the woodcarver – are an eye-catcher for your entire home.

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Tell us your wishes – we will design and implement them in your spirit.

We deliver our carved door work throughout Europe.

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.................................................................................................. Your master carpenter builds the door,..... and master woodcarver Manfred Gerlach .... designs and carves your door according to your wishes.

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................................................................. Your master carpenter builds the door,..... and master woodcarver Manfred Gerlach .... designs and carves your door according to your wishes.

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. ........................................................................ Your master carpenter builds the door,..... and master woodcarver Manfred Gerlach .... designs and carves your door according to your wishes. .......

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Antique examples of front doors

can be found in every city. Even today they are still admired and, through their harmonious design, they give the viewer a sense of calm.

Particularly beautiful doors and gates are the door wings of St. Maria im Kapitol in Cologne.

The Capitol doors in Cologne contain the most important surviving relief cycles from the 11th century. They were not truly recognized until the 19th century. In Central Europe several medieval bronze doors of this kind still exist, but the Cologne door leaves are the only carved wooden doors from this period. What makes them special is not only their rarity, but also the quality of the carving and the coloration. The luminous, strong colors became visible again after a careful restoration in the 1930s.

The two door leaves are 485 cm high and together 248 cm wide. Each leaf consists of three oak planks, with frames and panels carved from walnut wood attached to them. Around these are larger, decorated, rounded frames. Between the panels and the outer frame you can see the tituli – text-like headings painted next to each image. Following these are relief-like carvings such as thin bead-mouldings and openwork interlace bands. These, together with round knobs at the corner points, frame the individual picture panels. The bead-mouldings conceal the gap between panel and interlace, creating the impression of a relief carved from one single piece of wood. In fact, the individual frame pieces are fixed to the oak planks with iron pins and nails drilled through the knobs. The outer frame rolls are also nailed on, but without the knob decoration. Smaller parts – such as bead-mouldings and inscription strips – are fixed with thinner, almost inconspicuous pins. This construction follows early Christian and late antique compositions, which were more common at the time. Today, however, not many such doors have survived.

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