Bernhard Sporer

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Bernhard Sporer (* around 1450/60 in Leonberg ; † 1526 in Öhringen ) was a southwest German builder and sculptor .

Sporer came to Aberlin Jörg as an apprentice around 1470 , for whose workshop he worked, among other things, in the 1480s when building the church choir in Münchingen . In 1487 Sporer worked with Jörg on the expansion of the Kilian Church in Heilbronn . A little later, in 1491, he appeared as a master in connection with the master builder Hans von Urach, who had meanwhile been favored by Count Eberhard im Bart, when building the collegiate church in Öhringen . Until 1492 Sporer, who was married to a woman from Heilbronn, lived in the Eichgasse in Heilbronn without having citizenship there. He then temporarily moved to Öhringen , but continued to pay taxes (with the exception of the years 1495 to 1500) in Heilbronn and continued to work there in construction matters, including at the Heilbronn town hall . Around 1503 Sporer moved to Wimpfen , where he continued the construction of the Wimpfen city church begun by Anton Pilgram . In the meantime Sporer's wife had died, as can be seen from a question of inheritance before the Heilbronn City Court in 1512. Sporer had two daughters, one of whom married the Heilbronn Alexander Merklin, the other the later mayor of Wimpfen Wilhelm Werrich. From Wimpfen Sporer came to Schwaigern in 1514 , where he expanded the Schwaigern town church until around 1520 . He then moved back to Öhringen, from where his death was reported to Wimpfen on September 15, 1526. A dispute over several years over Sporer's inheritance broke out between his sons-in-law.

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SURNAME Sporer, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Southwest German builder and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH around 1450 or around 1460
PLACE OF BIRTH Leonberg
DATE OF DEATH 1526
Place of death Öhringen