Caspar Moosbrugger

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Caspar Moosbrugger OSB , also Kaspar or C. Mosbrugger ; originally Andreas Moosbrugger (baptismal name); (* May 15, 1656 Au , Bregenzerwald ; † August 26, 1723 in Einsiedeln ) was an Austrian-Swiss architect . Along with Michael Beer and Michael Thumb, he is considered to be the co-founder of the Vorarlberg Baroque Building School Auer Zunft .

After an apprenticeship as a stonemason , Moosbrugger entered the Benedictine monastery in Einsiedeln as a novice in 1682 , where he lived as a lay brother until his death. He soon received commissions as an architect that would make him the most important Swiss baroque architect. On November 21, 1682 he made his profession , where he was given the religious name Caspar.

In 1684 he sought his advice regarding the rebuilding of the Weingarten Monastery and from 1692 he renovated the Freudenfels Castle, which belongs to the Einsiedeln Monastery . The extent to which he influenced the building, which began in 1717 and whose facade is strongly reminiscent of that of the monastery church in Einsiedeln, cannot be clearly explained, but his ideas seem to have flowed into the concept of the architect Franz Beer . After the construction of the monastery churches in Fischingen (1685–87) and Muri (1694–98) as well as the cloister buildings of the Münsterlingen monastery (1691) and the Cistercian monastery Mariazell zu Kalchrain (1697), Moosbrugger turned to his main architectural work, the comprehensive new building of the Benedictine abbey in Einsiedeln zu, where he first built the cloister from 1704. With the monastery church begun in 1719, but he did not live to see its completion, he created one of the most important church rooms of the Baroque era. Moosbrugger is also considered the architect of the Disentis Monastery .

1705–1710 the noble Verena Chapel was built on the Zugerberg , very probably according to his plans.

During the reign of St. Blasier Abbot Augustinus Fink , he drafted a plan for the new construction of the Berau monastery, which was completed in 1711. The monastery was also expanded to include a “push”. In 1715 the monastery church was consecrated anew under Master Gertrud von Beck zu Willmendingen and Head Magdalena Tröndlin von Greiffenegg.

Caspar Moosbrugger's construction corresponded to the Vorarlberg cathedral scheme .

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SURNAME Moosbrugger, Caspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moosbrugger, Andreas (baptismal name); Brother Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1656
PLACE OF BIRTH Au in the Bregenz Forest
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1723
Place of death Einsiedeln