Giovanni Angelo Barella
Giovanni Angelo Barella , also Hans Engel Barella (or Borella ), († 1695 in Mainz ) was an Italian builder in Kurmainz .
Life
Originally a stonemason and master bricklayer of Italian origin, he lived in the city of Mainz, whose citizen he had been since 1659, until his death. As the electoral builder under Anselm Franz von Ingelheim , Barella was responsible for a large number of baroque sacred and manorial buildings, as was his palace builder . He died in Mainz in 1695, at Heringsbrunnengasse 7 , the same year that Anselm Franz von Ingelheim died.
buildings
Barella was involved in many construction projects in Mainz , Rüdesheim am Rhein and Limburg an der Lahn :
- Mainz fortress (17th century)
- Choir stage of the Mainz Cathedral (advisory)
- Eltville Castle (restoration and expansion from 1682)
- Schneider guild house in Mainz (1678)
- Schoolhouse in St. Quintin
- Predecessor St. Hildegard (Eibingen) and monastery (new building or modernization 1681–1684)
- Domain Neuhof (from 1682)
- City palace of the imperial counts of Walderdorff in Limburg (1665–1681)
- Previous building of the residential building Heringsbrunnengasse 7 in Mainz
literature
- Michael Matheus: Building blocks for Mainz city history: Mainz Colloquium 2000. Stuttgart, 2002, ISBN 3-515-08176-3 digitized .
Web links
- From merchants, plasterers and wig makers. The presence of Italians in Mainz in the 17th and 18th centuries
- Mainz - the southern old town on Stadtbild Deutschland eV
- Eltville electoral castle
- Entry for the Neuhof domain in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Council
Individual evidence
- ↑ John Augel: Italian immigration and economic activity in the Rhineland cities of the 17th and 18th centuries. 1971, p. 287 online .
- ^ University of Bonn . Institute for historical regional studies of the Rhineland: Rheinisches archiv. Volumes 78-79, 1971 online .
- ↑ Nassauische Annalen: Yearbook of the Association for Nassau antiquity and historical research. Volumes 54–56, Verlag des Verein für Nassauische Altertumskunde und Geschichtsforschung, 1934, p. 13 online .
- ↑ Michael Imhof et al .: The churches in the Middle Rhine Valley: Guide to the buildings of the UNESCO World Heritage Middle Rhine. 2004.
- ↑ Hans Heinrich Welchert: Hessian castles and palaces. 1990, p. 289 online .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barella, Giovanni Angelo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Barella, Hans Engel; Borella, Giovanni Angelo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian builder in Kurmainz |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 16th century or 17th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1695 |
| Place of death | Mainz |