Benedikt Ried

Benedikt Ried (also: Rejt , Ried von Piesting ) (* around 1454; † October 30, 1534 in Laun , Bohemia ) was a German-Bohemian architect of the late Gothic and Renaissance periods .

Life

Benedikt Ried was born in Landshut around 1454 and trained at the Dombauhütte in Passau. He was probably first called to Prague around 1485 as a specialist in the new artillery gondola, where he gained great influence in the resurgence of artistic activity. He was obliged to build the Kuttenberg St. Barbara's Church and later with the execution of many “imperial buildings”. He completed the Nikolauskirche in Laun between 1520 and 1528. He was also responsible for the construction of the Wladislaw Hall and Ludwigtrakt. A small alley on the south-eastern slope of Prague Castle is still named after him today. In Laun he acquired civil rights and became known as "Benedict von Laun". Ried died in 1534, his tomb was in the Nikolauskirche in Laun. During the re-Catholicization phase, it was probably destroyed in the 17th century.

Works

Artillery roundabouts on the north side of Prague Castle , attributed from around 1485
Vladislav Hall and equestrian staircase at Prague Castle (built 1490 / 1493–1502)
St. Anne's Church , Vilnius , (built 1495–1500)
Ludwig Wing at Prague Castle (1503–1510)
St. Barbara Cathedral , Kutna Hora
St. Nicholas Church, Louny , (built 1520–1538)
Blatná Castle , 95 kilometers south of Prague, (built 1520–1530)

literature

Thomas Bauer, Jörg Lauterbach and Norbert Nussbaum: Benedikt Ried's ribbed vault at Prague Castle. Design - stone technology - context . In: INSITU. Zeitschrift für Architekturgeschichte 7 (1/2015), pp. 59–76.
Bernhard Grueber: Laun, Benedikt . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, pp. 50-52.
Norbert Nussbaum: Ried v. Piesting, Benedict. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 563 f. ( Digitized version ).
Götz Fehr: Benedikt Ried. A German builder between Gothic and Renaissance in Bohemia . Munich 1961.
Franz Bischoff: Benedikt Ried. Research status and research problems . In: Wetter, Evelin (ed.): The countries of the Bohemian crown and their neighbors at the time of the Jagiellonian kings (1471–1526). Art - culture - history. Ostfildern 2004, pp. 85–98.

Individual evidence

↑ The ideas about the origins and early days of Benedikt Ried are based on the monograph by Fehr from 1961 and are highly speculative. The first secured message about Ried comes from the year 1489.

Web links

Commons : Benedikt Ried - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Benedikt Ried. In: arch INFORM .

personal data
SURNAME	Ried, Benedict
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rejt, Benedikt; Ried von Piesting, Benedikt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bohemian architect of the late Gothic and Renaissance periods
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1454
PLACE OF BIRTH	Landshut
DATE OF DEATH	October 30, 1534
Place of death	Whim , Bohemia

[1] The ideas about the origins and early days of Benedikt Ried are based on the monograph by Fehr from 1961 and are highly speculative. The first secured message about Ried comes from the year 1489.