Hans Stecher (bricklayer)

The church in Bieberstein.

Hans Stecher († 1676 in Bieberstein ) was a Baroque bricklayer and constable in Freiberg.

Hans Stecher was born the son of master bricklayer Wolf Stecher and acquired citizenship in Freiberg (Saxony) on May 6, 1661 . There he was council mason from 1670 to 1676. In 1676 he led the renovation of the church in Bieberstein, during the consecration of which he died in an accident when, in accordance with his office as constable, he wanted to fire a few solid shots from the tower with a small cannon, but provided it with too large a charge so that it was produced a violent recoil that threw him through the door and onto the pavement. He lay lifeless with a shattered skull. Stecher had a son of the same name with whom he had lived since 1675 at Nonnengasse 19 in Freiberg.

literature

Konrad Knebel: Artists and trades of building and sculpture in Freiberg. In: Messages from the Freiberg Antiquities Association. Issue 34: 1897, Gerlach, Freiberg 1898, p. 98 ( digitized version )
Stecher, Hans . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 504 .

Individual evidence

^ Gustav Adolf Pönicke (Ed.): Album of the manors and castles in the Kingdom of Saxony. Bieberstein. II. Section. Leipzig 1856, p. 42 ( Wikisource ).

personal data
SURNAME	Stecher, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German bricklayer of the baroque
DATE OF BIRTH	17th century
DATE OF DEATH	1676
Place of death	Bieberstein

[1] Gustav Adolf Pönicke (Ed.): Album of the manors and castles in the Kingdom of Saxony. Bieberstein. II. Section. Leipzig 1856, p. 42 ( Wikisource ).