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Project Description

Un­der the lead­er­ship of ARGE Franz & Ram­pa, and in col­lab­or­a­tion with oth­er con­ser­vat­or­s, the Romanesque painted wooden ceil­ing of the Church of Saint Mar­tin in Zil­lis is as­sessed every three years.

Dur­ing this stra­tegic cam­paign, signs of dam­age and mi­cro­bi­o­lo­gic­al growth are care­fully doc­u­mented to gath­er data on the mi­cro-s­cal­ing of the sens­it­ive paint lay­er and the activ­ity of the fungal in­fest­a­tion, which posed a threat to this rare cul­tur­al her­it­age in past dec­ades. This pro­cess also in­cludes very loc­al­ized sta­bil­iz­a­tion meas­ures on the paint lay­er­.

For this pur­pose, the vari­ous pan­els are in­di­vidu­ally ex­amined, and the ob­ser­va­tions are re­cor­ded us­ing a tab­let-­based doc­u­ment­a­tion sys­tem.

Keywords:
wooden ceil­ing, sac­ral build­ings,
mon­it­or­ing & main­ten­ance, sur­vey & doc­u­ment­a­tion