Something, something, medieval cities being build around churches? No clue, just guessing
These are cities where mainly the german citizens and hungarian nobiles bulit these old city centers. Long ways with houses, in the center the church/cathedral, thats quiet common shape even in villages with originally german inhabitants.
Church used to be center of social life, so it makes sense that towns were built around them. So everyone can see the clock on tower and hear the bells.
it’s because all the buildings have red roofs, duh
I’d say Google about town squares from medieval era in general.
All of the cities you listed here have been important in medieval times, usually market towns, or on crossroads of going from x to y. And as times went, city was built around the town centre.
You can find similar urban style in historic cities across whole Europe, especially Italy.
Every region in the world has at least one distinct city/town/village layout. They are based on the environmental and cultural conditions during the foundation of those settlements. 🤷♂️
Because it’s the best layout
That’s just how cities in medieval era were built. You have a townsquare with church and town hall where they organized weekly markets, where burgers could trade with villagers. The markets were so important, that many cities are named after the day of the market. As for the shape, there were just few stone houses from both sides and they were building them in a row without planning so the crooked shape eventually enclosed the square. Cities like Bratislava or Trnava have their town squares roughly square shaped.
People are sarcastic here, but I find this to be an interesting question. For example this layout is very rare in Czechia.
Litomyšl and Telč are sort of similar, but without the central church.
To get best church buffs.
Looks like a pussy.
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it’s probably a medieval village shape [Angerdorf](https://alchetron.com/Angerdorf) popular with the Germans when they expanded to the east. Slovakia used to have a relatively big German population due to mining for example. Another village shape is [Rundling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rundling)
Go back in time 500 years, build a church, most important people and the richest ones will live around, spread the city, this is result
Post this in some other subs like /r/civilengineering you might get some interesting responses
Well church was in the centre. Some market there. Then old building around it.
It used to be one-dimensional village built along a road probably going through a mountain valley. The second row used to be barns and other farm buildings. Czechia has less valleys and higher degree of connectivity but you can find T-shaped cities with triangular squares (sic!).
Ah, we are lazy, just copy & paste
This type of city square is called “šošovkovité námestie” (translation: lenticular square) in slovak.
Definition is:
a type of regular square, formed by the gradual funnel-like widening of the street leading into the square to its transverse axis and then narrowing again. Its considerable length significantly prevails over the greatest width of the area.
It seems to not be a thing in western midieval architecture as I couldn’t find any english sources to link in a pinch. But šošovkovité námestie is a well known term in slovak architectural and urban renewal.
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Something, something, medieval cities being build around churches? No clue, just guessing
These are cities where mainly the german citizens and hungarian nobiles bulit these old city centers. Long ways with houses, in the center the church/cathedral, thats quiet common shape even in villages with originally german inhabitants.
Church used to be center of social life, so it makes sense that towns were built around them. So everyone can see the clock on tower and hear the bells.
it’s because all the buildings have red roofs, duh
I’d say Google about town squares from medieval era in general.
All of the cities you listed here have been important in medieval times, usually market towns, or on crossroads of going from x to y. And as times went, city was built around the town centre.
You can find similar urban style in historic cities across whole Europe, especially Italy.
Every region in the world has at least one distinct city/town/village layout. They are based on the environmental and cultural conditions during the foundation of those settlements. 🤷♂️
Because it’s the best layout
That’s just how cities in medieval era were built. You have a townsquare with church and town hall where they organized weekly markets, where burgers could trade with villagers. The markets were so important, that many cities are named after the day of the market. As for the shape, there were just few stone houses from both sides and they were building them in a row without planning so the crooked shape eventually enclosed the square. Cities like Bratislava or Trnava have their town squares roughly square shaped.
People are sarcastic here, but I find this to be an interesting question. For example this layout is very rare in Czechia.
Litomyšl and Telč are sort of similar, but without the central church.
To get best church buffs.
Looks like a pussy.
We like pu$$y
slovakussy
it’s probably a medieval village shape [Angerdorf](https://alchetron.com/Angerdorf) popular with the Germans when they expanded to the east. Slovakia used to have a relatively big German population due to mining for example. Another village shape is [Rundling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rundling)
>An ***Angerdorf*** (plural: *Angerdörfer*) is a type of [village](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village) that is characterised by the houses and farmsteads being laid out around a central grassed area, the [*anger*](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anger_(meadow)&action=edit&redlink=1) (from the [Old High German](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_High_German) *angar* =pasture or grassy place),[^([1])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angerdorf#cite_note-1) a [village green](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_green) which was [common land](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_land), owned jointly by the village community. The *anger* is usually in the shape of a [lens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lens_(optics)) or an eye
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angerdorf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angerdorf)
Superior architecture.
Because the “člnoček” is vastly superior to any other shape
https://i.redd.it/sfbjcn2t6fwe1.gif
Go back in time 500 years, build a church, most important people and the richest ones will live around, spread the city, this is result
Post this in some other subs like /r/civilengineering you might get some interesting responses
Well church was in the centre. Some market there. Then old building around it.
It used to be one-dimensional village built along a road probably going through a mountain valley. The second row used to be barns and other farm buildings. Czechia has less valleys and higher degree of connectivity but you can find T-shaped cities with triangular squares (sic!).
Ah, we are lazy, just copy & paste
This type of city square is called “šošovkovité námestie” (translation: lenticular square) in slovak.
Definition is:
a type of regular square, formed by the gradual funnel-like widening of the street leading into the square to its transverse axis and then narrowing again. Its considerable length significantly prevails over the greatest width of the area.
From site:https://www.obnova.sk/slovnik/heslo/namestie-sosovkovite/
It seems to not be a thing in western midieval architecture as I couldn’t find any english sources to link in a pinch. But šošovkovité námestie is a well known term in slovak architectural and urban renewal.
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