klappvisier

plural klappvisiers · alternative klappvisor

1. historicalA type of visor, found on medieval European (especially German) helmets, typically hinged at a single point in the middle of the brow of the helmet (rather than hinged on the sides of the skull).

   An improvement on this design was the Klappvisier, a larger, full guard that folded down over the face.

   2015, James B. Tschen-Emmons, Artifacts from Medieval Europe, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 37

   3 more examples

   Representations of the Sleeping Guard show war - hats as well as bascinets with Klappvisiers , as on the Easter Sepulchre in the Altertumsmuseum in the Grosse Garten at Dresden and in Constance Cathedral . They frequently appear in ...

   1935, Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity

   In Germany one of the earliest pictorial depictions of a Klappvisier appears to have been shown in the lost Volto santo fresco, formerly on the east wall of the Chapel in Kronberg (see ftn. 27 above).

   2001, Church Monuments: Journal of the Church Monuments Society

   Early bascinets had no visors, but by the second quarter of the 14th century they were fitted with Klappvisiers, visors , using a centralised hinge […] During the 1390s steel ventails gradually replaced the mail aventail that had been fitted alongside the klappvisier to defend the neck.

   2006, Kate Morris, History, Lotus Press, →ISBN, pages 31–32