Corps de Logis
As a Corps de Logis (French for " living body " ) of the main wing of a castle or city palace is called. It can form the center of a three - or multi-leaf plant or isolated from the outbuildings are. In most cases, it is compared to other building tracts highlighted, such as its size or architectural jewelry. In the corps de logis are the living and reception rooms of the castle lord.
The Corps of Logis is located, if it allows the land, usually on the central axis of the entire system between the main courtyard ( cour d' honneur ) and Garden ( entre cour et jardin ). Often the main courtyard is bounded by a three-wing building. Then the corps de logis forming the central wing at the rear of the main courtyard. This is usually completed at the fourth, front side of a gate or wall with gate.
An early example of a corps de logis is found in the French chateau of Azay -le- Rideau in the Loire Valley. However, it is not immediately recognizable as such there by later alterations and additions. A typical representative of the baroque main building of a three- bladed system, however, is the central wing of the Palais du Luxembourg in Paris. An example of an isolated built Corps de Logis is the central building of the castle Benrath in Dusseldorf dar.
The Corps de Logis developed in the French palace of the Renaissance, is typical of the castles of the Baroque and the Rococo, and partly determined yet systems of classicism and historicism. It combines the medieval castles in still usually functionally separate buildings of Halle, Saalgeschossbau and residential tower. It is home to large state rooms, such as a hard - and social hall ( salon), the main staircase and the grand apartments.
In French- influenced residential architecture, the Corps de logis is entered on the Ehrenhofseite most centrally through the vestibule. Lying stately living rooms upstairs, the main representative staircase leads from the vestibule side upwards. On the ground floor or upstairs one then enters a beyond the garden room, the common room. Most are in the corps de logis two prestigious apartments (apartments ), one for the master of the house and one for the lady. They are usually on the garden side by side symmetrically opposite and be entered from the lock located in the middle of the salon. The spatial sequence is the same for both apartments: First, the antechamber ( the hall ), which can be followed for complex systems is another hall. It follows the Chambre ( the main room ), while the main living room, bedroom and reception room of the person concerned. Because the Cabinet endorses (Cabinet ), a personal preference of certain, often intimate living and relaxation space. Always belongs to the apartment, a wardrobe, a room for storing clothes. Also for the commode, a separate small room be provided. Other flats, for example, for those following this scheme, although often in reduced form.
Located on the prestigious German castles apartment has not been received in the bedroom, but in a this upstream audience room. The bedroom was only pre- shows. In the Holy Roman Empire was in many castles, especially in a residential palaces Kaiser apartment for the emperor or senior guests.
A modern form of the Corps de Logis is the central part of the new Federal Chancellery in Berlin, which means the style of Baroque architecture of domination adapted by the arrangement of its individual parts of the building.