Franz Alois Mayr

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Pilgrimage Church Marienberg

Franz Alois Mayr (born March 25, 1723 near the Tegernsee , † October 28, 1771 ) was a German church builder who worked mainly in south-eastern Upper Bavaria . He is considered one of the Trostberg rococo masters.

life and work

St. Vitus in Kirchweidach
St. Margareta Monastery Church in Baumburg
Facade of the monastery church Raitenhaslach

Mayr began an apprenticeship as a bricklayer in 1740. He was a student of the Munich court architect Johann Baptist Gunetzrhainer and his brother Ignaz Anton Gunetzrhainer . In 1748 he was employed as a “Pällier” building the Palais Toerring-Jettenbach in Munich . Around 1750 he became market and court mason master in Trostberg , married and bought some property. As a master bricklayer, he also worked in the castle chapel of Mörmoosen, in Wald an der Alz Castle and in the Raitenhaslach monastery . In Raitenhaslach he built the prelate's cane from 1760 and the festival wing from 1764. He later worked at the churches in Niederbergkirchen , Gumattenkirchen, Kirchisen (both in the municipality of Mettenheim ), Margarethenberg (municipality of Burgkirchen an der Alz ) and the abandoned Nikolauskirche in Oberndorf near Salzburg . He was also involved in the design of the churches of St. Andreas and St. Michael in Trostberg. As is often the case, he worked with the sculptor Johann Georg Kapfer and the painter Franz Joseph Soll . He also worked in Mögling, Deinting , Tinning (all today the city of Trostberg), Tacherting and Feichten an der Alz . The tower top of the Aegidien Church in Altenmarkt an der Alz (1764) also comes from him. Later orders concerned the parish churches of Mühldorf am Inn , Kirchweidach and Oberndorf near Salzburg, the latter he could not complete due to his unexpected death. His wife Anna Margaretha had died in 1763.

A few miscalculations led to Mayr being referred to as the “lies builder from Trostberg”. Mayr's major works are next to the parish church of St. Vitus in Kirchweidach who built on medieval foundations pilaster churches of Raitenhaslach whose pre-blinded western façade he created 1751/1752, of Baumburg Abbey and the pilgrimage church Marienberg . He was also appointed to the Michaelbeuern monastery in the province of Salzburg , where he built the eastern wing of the monastery buildings.

literature

  • Kilian Kreilinger, the Bavarian rococo builder Franz Alois Mayr. In: Yearbook of the Association for Christian Art. Volume IX. Munich 1976.
  • Georg Dehio (founder), Ernst Götz u. a. (Editor): Handbook of German Art Monuments, Munich and Upper Bavaria. 3. Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2006, ISBN 3-422-03115-4 .
  • Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Austria. Band Salzburg. Schroll, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7031-0599-2 , p. 252.
  • Herbert Schindler , Great Bavarian Art History. Volume II. Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1963, without ISBN, p. 277 f.
  • Wolfgang Hopfgartner, St. Georg - Raitenhaslach. Peda, Passau, 2005, without ISBN (Peda-Kunstführer 602/2005).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.altenmarkt.de
  2. ↑ http://www.stadt-trostberg.de/p8clqwed1fnvtrostberg-cms_extract.l48277.html?BUTTON_REC_ID=48277

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personal data
SURNAME Mayr, Franz Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church builder
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1723
PLACE OF BIRTH at the Tegernsee
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1771