Andreas from Everdingen

Master Andreas von Everdingen († before 1412) was the sixth master builder at Cologne Cathedral .

Around 1395 he succeeded Master Michael . During the coup in 1396 , Andreas was on the side of the guilds. In 1398 he was mentioned as Andres Meister in the Tum . In 1412 he appears as a (late) foreman in the Doyme zo Coelne. He built the second floor of the south tower, on which the cathedral crane was to become a landmark of the city of Cologne for centuries. He was married to an aleid. His successor was Nikolaus van Bueren (1380-1445) from 1425 .

See also

Portal: Cologne Cathedral  - Overview of Wikipedia content on the subject of Cologne Cathedral

literature

• Johann Jakob Merlo : The cathedral builders of Cologne . In: Yearbooks of the Association of Friends of Antiquity in the Rhineland 75, 1883, pp. 95-102 ( digitized version ).
• Max Hasak : The Cologne Cathedral , Berlin 1911, pp. 104-105 ( digitized version ).
• Paul Clemen (Ed.): The Cologne Cathedral (= The Art Monuments of the Rhine Province Volume 6, 3). 2nd, increased edition, Schwann, Düsseldorf 1938, p. 62.