A säteritak ("manorial roof") is a type of
roof
A roof (: roofs or rooves) is the top covering of a building, including all materials and constructions necessary to support it on the walls of the building or on uprights, providing protection against rain, snow, sunlight, extremes of tempera ...
, similar to a
clerestory
A clerestory ( ; , also clearstory, clearstorey, or overstorey; from Old French ''cler estor'') is a high section of wall that contains windows above eye-level. Its purpose is to admit light, fresh air, or both.
Historically, a ''clerestory' ...
, that enjoyed great popularity in
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...
from the mid-seventeenth century.
Structure
Originally used for higher-status buildings such as manors (hence the name), it consists of a
hip roof
A hip roof, hip-roof or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downward to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope, with variants including Tented roof, tented roofs and others. Thus, a hipped roof has no gables or other ve ...
, where the uppermost part has been cut off from the bottom part by an additional strip of wall and often an additional line of
roof window
A roof window is an outward opening window that is incorporated as part of the design of a roof
A roof (: roofs or rooves) is the top covering of a building, including all materials and constructions necessary to support it on the walls o ...
s. It would later spread to rural buildings of more modest
social status
Social status is the relative level of social value a person is considered to possess. Such social value includes respect, honour, honor, assumed competence, and deference. On one hand, social scientists view status as a "reward" for group members ...
.
The model for this type of roof was the more elaborate one of
Riddarhuset
The House of Nobility () in Stockholm, Sweden, is a corporation and a building that maintains records and acts as an interest group on behalf of the Swedish nobility.
Name
The name is literally translated as ''House of Knights'', as the knight ...
, a palatial building in
Stockholm
Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately ...
housing the parliamentary meetings of the nobility, which was given its final form by
Simon de la Vallée
Simon de la Vallée (1590–1642) was a French-Swedish architect. The first architect in Sweden to have received formal academic training, he created the Swedish school of architecture.
Biography
Born in Paris, he was the son of Marin de la Val ...
.
Purpose
The upper part, with its additional windows, was often purely decorative, but it could contain an additional floor, as in the modest Manor of Vahlsta in Västmanland (from c. 1700).
[Johan Cederlund, "Arkitekturen 1690-1730", ''Signums svenska konsthistoria: Barockens konst'', Lund: Signum, 1997, p. 138]
References
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