Hans von Mingolsheim

Hans von Mingolsheim (* probably around 1410 in Mingolsheim (?); † around 1473 in Heilbronn ) was a builder and stonemason .

Life

From 1464 at the latest, Hans had the construction management at the Carmelite monastery in Heilbronn

Kilian's Church in Heilbronn, Hans created the nave with side aisles between the towers

A date of birth has not been passed down from him, it should be around 1410. The "von Mingolsheim" is not to be understood as a title of nobility , but rather describes the origin of his person or family. Probably from 1425 he began an apprenticeship as a stonemason, possibly while building Kislau Castle near Mingolsheim. He is then mentioned many times in the sources of the city of Heilbronn. The document book of the city of Heilbronn lists it in several places and indicates that the Steinmetz families, who later still lived in the city, go back to Hans von Mingolsheim. From the entries it can be concluded that a Hans (his father?) May have been in Heilbronn as early as 1399. In 1451 he worked in Wimpfen , where he worked on the tabernacle of today's evangelical town church Bad Wimpfen . From 1454 to 1455 he was busy restoring the palace building (a castle-like palace complex) next to the Speyer Cathedral for 200 guilders wages. In 1457 he was also a councilor in Speyer . Then he was back in Heilbronn, where he lived in 1458 in Klostergasse. In 1460 he is a citizen and councilor in Heilbronn.

His most important activities in Heilbronn include helping to build the Kilian's Church and the Carmelite Monastery . Between 1447 and 1454 he was involved in the construction of the late Gothic aisles and again between 1458 and 1460 in the renovation of the nave of the Kilian's Church. For the Carmelite monastery, the construction of which Pope Nicholas V allowed on January 28, 1447 with the bull Inter clara salutis opera , he possibly carried out plans as early as 1448. From 1464 until his death he was in charge of the Carmelite monastery building.

progeny

With his first wife, whose name and marriage are unknown to us, he had six children, only four of whom are known by name. Based on the father's profession, they all had the family name Steinmetz :

• Magdalena (* ~ before 1428)
• Lorenz (* ~ before 1430), mentioned in a document in 1450 as master and supervisor of the Carmelite monastery building.
• Niklaus (von Mingolsheim) (* ~ before 1439), who was accepted into the Steinmetzenbund in 1459 and attended the Speyer Masters' Meeting of 1464 together with (father) Hans .
• Heinrich (* ~ after 1440) was city ​​architect in Heilbronn from 1477 to 1481 .

These three sons probably all apprenticed to their father, since traditionally the knowledge of the stonemasons about construction and construction was passed on from father to son.

From his second marriage to "Els Mettelbach (-in)", who died in 1470, three stonemason children are known:

• Barbara (* ~ before 1465)
• Apollonia (* ~ before 1467)
• Balthasar (* ~ before 1469) official as mayor, city councilor and judge in Heilbronn.

In the same year 1470 he married for the third time. However, before "his hussfrowen hyraut" was certified and sealed with "Margret Berlin", he died around 1473. The youngest child "Hänslein" (* ~ around 1472) arose from this short marriage.

After the death of the respected city architect Hans von Mingolsheim, a twenty-one year inheritance dispute arose over his considerable fortune. This dispute could only be ended in 1494.

literature

• Günther Binding : Master of the architecture. History of the architect and engineering profession . Primus, 2004, ISBN 3896784978 , p. 116.
• Klaus Gaßner (Hrsg.): Bad Schönborn history. The chronicle of the reunited villages Mingolsheim and Langenbrücken. Volume 1: From the beginnings to the dissolution of the Old Kingdom . Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 2006, ISBN 978-3-89735-437-1 .
• Eugen Knupfer (edit.): Document book of the city of Heilbronn . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1904 ( Württemberg historical sources . N. F. 5). Page 444, No. 808 " Mayors ... take Hans Steinmetz von Mingolsheim (wrongly ~ Münkelsheim) as a citizen ".
• Helmut Schmolz and Hubert Weckbach: Heilbronn - history and life of a city . 2nd Edition. Anton H. Konrad-Verlag, Weißenhorn 1973, No. 117 “ Carmelite Monastery on Weinsberger Strasse ”, p. 58.

Sources / remarks

1. ↑ Mingolsheim's place of birth is no longer documented
2. ↑ (Volume 1 No. 808; Volume 2 No. 1119, 1357, 1534a; Volume 4 No. 3481a, 3490d)
3. ↑ In those early days, it was often the case that the father's name was passed on to the son. (see also> Patronymic )
4. ↑ (entry in prayer book)
5. ↑ “Uff Sonntag ante Cathari anno 1451 with master Hansen the stonemason to make an agreement of the sacramentsheusslin of the parish churches, which is something apparently, also useful and according to his rather delicate, therefore one should give him X guilders and the window next to it he do it, also know the choir. " (Source: Stadtarchiv Bad Wimpfen 2004)
6. ↑ GoogleBooks: in the Conversationslexikon für bildende Kunst, Volume 6, Page 423 as Hans von Wimpfen ; Ditto below as Hans von Wimpolzheim (Mingolzheim) who started building the choir of Killian's Church
7. ↑ In 1689 this building was destroyed in the war
8. ↑ Source: Chronik Bad Schönborn 2006, Volume 1, Page 219
9. ↑ Building information and monument preservation, see under web links
10. ↑ Source: Chronik Bad Schönborn 2006, Volume 1, Page 221 = beginning with the year 1458 ; on page 219, however, the year 1455 is given as the beginning
11. ↑ Source: Heilbronn - History and Life of a City. 2nd Edition. Konrad, Weißenhorn 1973, p. 58 No. 117 Carmelite Monastery on Weinsberger Strasse
12. ↑ estimated year of birth, if the order of the children was listed in the order of birth
13. ↑ Since Lorenz is already referred to as a master in 1450, he should have received the master's title at the age of around 20 as a result of his apprenticeship and journeyman. This leads to the conclusion that he must have been born around 1430. The date of birth of his father Hans would therefore also have to be calculated before approx. 1410.
14. ↑ in interest and Betbuch, and the debt register of the city of Heilbronn in 1450; Document book, Vol. IV. No. 3490, p. 841.
15. ↑ and therefore should have been born around / before approx. 1439
16. ↑ A (The?) Nikolaus Steinmetz was employed at the Mainz cathedral construction around 1484. Source: List of artists at Mainz Cathedral , with a calculated 45 years it could have been Niklaus von Mingolsheim. (unsecured!)
17. ↑ So the father Hans would have been around 62 years old!

Web links

• Building information, monument preservation ("... added the side aisles in late Gothic style from 1447 - 54")
• MüllerScience: Early builders known by name; List from 600 to 1500 (This refers to the years 1455–1456 for the renovation of Kilian's Church by Hans von Mingolsheim .)