Cercetări parietale și relevee detaliate la Palatul Principilor din Alba Iulia – zona „Porții Prepozitului” / Wall-research and Architectural Surveys on the Princely Palace in Alba Iulia – The “Provost’s Gate”

15 December 2017


Authors
BALÁZS HALMOS, KATALIN MARÓTZY, ILEANA BURNICHIOIU
Pages
139-167
Abstract

The present work contains a report on the application of the most appropriate survey method for Bauforschung, called true-to-form survey, applied to the medieval and Renaissance building remains identified during the wall research from 2014-2017 in the wing “E” of the Princely Palace in Alba Iulia (eastern courtyards). In some written sources from the 17th-18th centuries, they were mentioned as “Provost’s Gate”. By recording the existing state of various discoveries by precise measurement (as stones and bricks, plaster and white-washed surfaces, clefts crumbling, mechanical damage and the visible marks of stone dressing tools and corrections, tile, iron and wood remains), we provided a visual tool of determining the construction and decoration stages, the moments of destruction and the repair stages.

Keywords
Bauforschung, Transylvania, “Provost’s Gate”, Princely residence.