Franz Anton Beer (master builder)

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Beer's house in Bregenz
Parish Church of St. Gallus
Mehrerau monastery
Office building of the Mehrerau monastery

Franz Anton Beer (born November 3, 1688 in Bregenz ; † 1749 ibid) was an Austrian master builder who created sacred and secular buildings in Bregenz. The son of the Vorarlberg baroque master builder Jodokus Beer came from the Vorarlberg master builder family Beer .

life and work

Franz Anton Beer worked as a master builder for the city of Bregenz and as “house and court builder” of the Benedictine Abbey of Mehrerau.

In 1720 he began building a baroque town house on what was then Landstrasse to Lindau (today Kornmarktstrasse 5) on the site of an earlier city lime kiln that he used as his home. The stately two-storey building is structured by pilasters with a high fighting zone and had two arched gates facing the street. It served as a tavern from the end of the 19th century and was given the name "Kornmesser", as the control bodies of the Kornmarkt meanwhile had their offices in the house.

In his capacity as “house and court builder” of the Benedictine monastery Mehrerau near Bregenz, he created the plans for the guest, court and economic building that was built in 1728.

Between 1737 and 1738 Beer enlarged the parish church of St. Gallus and made it Baroque with moderately used stylistic devices.

The extension and the new construction of the monastery church Mehrerau (1740 to 1743) is called the culmination of his work. It was considered the most beautiful baroque church in the Vorarlberg area. She fell victim to the measures of secularization under Bavarian rule in 1808; its building blocks were reused in the construction of the Lindau harbor.

Important buildings

  • Kornmesserhaus, Beer's house on Landstrasse (today Kornmarktstrasse 5), started in 1720
  • City parish church St. Gallus , Bregenz, renovation and expansion from 1737 to 1738 or 1740
  • Mehrerau Monastery , new construction of the baroque monastery church from 1740 to 1743 in place of an earlier Romanesque basilica. From 1749 to 1750, Johann Michael Beer von Bildstein took care of the new construction of the monastery building .
  • Mehrerau Monastery, office building of the monastery.

literature

Web links

Commons : Franz Anton Beer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b see web link Federal Monuments Office: Report on the construction and history of the house on Kornhausplatz
  2. ↑ see web link Kornmesser: History - Baroque master builder Franz Anton Beer
  3. ↑ a b see Neue Deutsche Biographie Walther Genzmer: Beer, Franz Anton
  4. ↑ see web link HTL-Bregenz: Stadtpfarrkirche St. Gallus
personal data
SURNAME Beer, Franz Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1688
PLACE OF BIRTH Bregenz
DATE OF DEATH 1749
Place of death Bregenz