Renaissance area-fillings in the City Hall of Augsburg (Q1361146)

The paper contains a description of the floor of the Golden Hall (ca. 1620) in the City Hall of Augsburg. The floor is divided into eight rectangles by one central strip and by three strips crossing the room. The eight rectangles are filled by a pattern of squares and parallelograms that can be seen as a parallel perspective depiction of cubes. The filling pattern of the crossing strips is an arrangement of extended rectangular hexahedrons with two opposite square sides. The squares formed by the intersection of the strips are filled by six congruent petallike segments whose edges consist of six arcs of circles with centers at the corners of a regular hexagon.