David Mozart

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David Mozart , also Motzhart or Motzhardt (* 1620 , 1621 or 1622 in Pfersee , † January 28, 1685 in Augsburg ) was an Augsburg bricklayer and master builder during the Baroque period . He is the first Mozart known as an artisan and ancestor of the artist family , from which builders, sculptors and musicians emerged - the most famous of them being Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .

ancestors

David Mozart's father was the mercenary (small farmer) of the same name who came from Stadtbergen-Leitershofen around 1608 and immigrated to Augsburg-Pfersee . For several generations , his ancestors leased a small Sölde from Kaisheim Monastery , which his great-grandfather Hans Motzhart first managed from 1506. David's uncle Jerg Motzart acted as a village judge in Pfersee from 1606 .

Origin and career

Tower of St. Peter in Dillingen

David Mozart the Elder Ä. died in 1625 or 1626 when his son David was a small child. His mother Anna died in 1636 and left David the Sölde in Pfersee. The boy came into the care of his uncle Daniel Weller, a bricklayer, and the property was sold for David's benefit. Mozart learned the bricklaying trade from Daniel Weller, who was a builder from Augsburg . In January 1643 David Mozart applied for the citizenship of Augsburg and received it after a few days; his guarantors were Weller and the municipal foreman Carol Dietz, successor to Elias Holl . Mozart became a master mason in 1665 and chaired the masons' guild in 1671.

family

Just one month after obtaining Augsburg citizenship, Mozart married Maria Negele (1622–1697) in Augsburg Cathedral and moved to Jakobervorstadt . David Mozart had five sons and four daughters; all were baptized in Augsburg Cathedral, although there was a separate parish in Jakobsvorstadt. Three of his sons were also bricklayers, Daniel (1645–1683), Hans Georg and Franz , the great-grandfather of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. David (1653-1710) entered an order, and Johann Michael (1653-1718) became a sculptor. The sons Hans Georg and Franz most likely spent their apprenticeship with their father.

Works

Preserved and safe from Mozart

The tower tower of the pilgrimage church of Our Lady in the Moos in Kicklingen (today in Dillingen), which Mozart completed in 1673, was later removed. The town houses built in Dillingen in 1680 with the collaboration of his son Hans Georg are also not preserved. In Augsburg, in addition to the repair of his house in Jakobervorstadt, only unspecified work on the Fuggerei can be verified for David Mozart .

literature

  • Bernhard Graf: Mozart's forgotten ancestors. An artist family from Augsburg and Swabia, Allitera Verlag, Munich 2019.
  • Gabriele Krist-Krug: Hans Georg Mozart (1647–1719). Baroque master builder of a famous family from Augsburg: Life and Work , Wißner, Augsburg 2006, ISBN 3-89639-522-X
  • Adolf Layer : The Augsburg artist family Mozart , Die Brigg publishing house, Augsburg without a year

Notes and individual references

  1. ^ Heinz Schuler: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Ancestors and relatives , Degner, Neustadt an der Aisch 1980, ISBN 3-7686-6018-4
  2. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine: Mozart's oldest known ancestor is a Leitershofer . In: Augsburger Allgemeine . ( augsburger-allgemeine.de [accessed on November 9, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Kluger, Martin., Kleiner, Wolfgang B .: WA Mozart and Augsburg: ancestors, hometown and first love; Locations, history, sights . 1st edition. Context-Verl, Augsburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-939645-05-4 .
  4. ↑ Dillingen adDonau, community center, Königstrasse 44 . Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (with picture); Retrieved January 9, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Mozart, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Motzhart, David; Motzhardt, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Augsburg bricklayer and builder of the baroque period
DATE OF BIRTH between 1620 and 1622
PLACE OF BIRTH Pfersee
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1685
Place of death augsburg