Cabinet (room)

A bower (. Well Kemnad; Latin caminus, -i, m = furnace, fireplace, fireplace | caminata, - ae, heated living space ) is a fireplace room.

Conceptual history

The early " burgenkundliche " literature of the 19th century saw the bower a heated by a fireplace or stove living and working space in a castle ( Old High German cheminâta. Term relationship with French cheminée, Eng. Chimney ). However, the term castle in this context, the minstrelsy and the then notions of a castle stands accordingly, rather an ideal image. The bower would accordingly - if it represented the only heated room - mainly women, knights and nobles reserved. In particular, women and the sick inhabited, referred heated rooms as bowers. Also Nikolaus Lenau and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe took up the expression.

Today's meaning

Despite the new making sense of the term bower during the Renaissance castle (older castle romanticism ), the term is still in 14-15. Century has quellenkundlich where it describes a residential building. Currently, however, can not mentioned in the written sources Kemenate a still existing building (or in a real castle room ) are allocated. A disillusionment of the term is therefore the result. In general, a bower is considered massive, heatable stone castle today. Based on the current findings, the concept needs to be extended in cities, in practice, to stone residential towers or specially equipped rooms. In fact, it is for example in the case of bowers Orlamünde and Reinstädt also to structures in the sense of " heated castle " or " heated residential tower ." The term is thus used to attribute an unspecified space a technical characteristic. A caminata in the sources must be generally understood as a heated room of the high and late Middle Ages, regardless of the relation to real spaces or social distinctions.

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