Franz Jänggl

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Franz Jänggl or Franz Jän (c) kl (* around 1650 in the Feldkirchen area in Carinthia ; † February 15, 1734 in Vienna ), was an Austrian builder of the Baroque era . He worked a lot with Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt .

Life

Parish and pilgrimage church in Maria-Lanzendorf (1699–1703)
Church tower of the parish church Stockerau (1722–1725)

From 1680 he is proven in Vienna as a journeyman of the imperial court architect Lorenz Lahr, in 1683 he passed the master craftsman examination. He married Anna Sophia, the rich widow of the Italian builder Francesco Piazoli. This marriage and a later inheritance formed the basis of his flourishing construction company, which was one of the largest in Vienna. When the Hofburg was rebuilt after 1700, he came into contact with Hildebrandt, for whom he built several palaces and churches in Vienna. From 1715 Jänngl was the master builder of the Piarists and led the construction of the monastery and the church for about 15 years. In Lower Austria he was Hildebrandt's site manager for the construction of the Pottendorf parish church . In 1719 he took over the construction of the Göttweig Abbey , and in 1725, at the age of 75, he became the monastery’s construction director.

Own works are the pilgrimage church Maria Lanzendorf (consecrated 1703), the tower of the parish church of Stockerau (1722 to 1725), which at 88 meters is Lower Austria's highest church tower and the parish church in Biedermannsdorf (1727–1728).

Franz Jänggl died at the age of 84 as a wealthy master builder, his fortune and his business were inherited by his nephew Franz Anton Pilgram .

The imperial quarry

Mainly supporting architectural parts were made of the hardest Kaiserstein , so an intensive collaboration with Kaisersteinbruch masters is documented.

Some examples:

literature

  • Manfred A. Jelonek: Franz Jänggl - an unknown Viennese baroque master builder . Vienna 1984.
  • Walpurga Oppeker: Christian Alexander Oedtl and Franz Jänggl. Two Viennese bourgeois master masons at the turn of the 17th to the 18th century. In: Yearbook of the Association for the History of the City of Vienna. 61. (2005): 99-152.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reclam's art guide: Austria , Volume 1, Stuttgart 1961
  2. ↑ Johann Georg Haresleben , Simon Sasslaber , also from Feldkirchen in Carinthia, Franz Trumler , Elias Hügel in: Helmuth Furch , Historisches Lexikon Kaisersteinbruch were named (selection) . Volume 2 I – Z, Pottendorf Church . P. 297f. Museum and cultural association Kaisersteinbruch , Bruckneudorf-Kaisersteinbruch 2004.
  3. ^ Historical lexicon Kaisersteinbruch. Volume 2 I-Z. PDF.
personal data
SURNAME Jänggl, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jänckl, Franz; Jänkl, Franz; Jängel, Frank; Jangl, Franz; Jankl, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian builder of the baroque
DATE OF BIRTH 1650
PLACE OF BIRTH Feldkirchen in Carinthia
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1734
Place of death Vienna