Hans of Savoy

Console stone with portrait of Hans von Saphoy, Salem Monastery Museum

Hans von Savoyen (also: Hans von Saphoy or Hans von Salmansweiler , * around 1450 in Salem ; † around 1500 ibid.) Was a German builder and sculptor of the late Gothic period .

Life

Hans Saphoy came from a family of builders who can be traced back to the 14th century and were related to the Parlers , the most important member of which was the Cologne cathedral builder Michael von Savoyen . He was a subject of the Swabian Imperial Abbey of Salem , where the family had their hereditary funeral. Another ancestor, also with the name Michael of Savoy, appears for the first time in 1415 as a builder of the abbey.

In 1477 Hans von Savoyen was appointed to Weingarten as an expert in a dispute between the monastery and the builder Hans von Sunthofen . In 1480 he received the order for construction work on the parish church of Pfullendorf to renovate and equip the choir and build the sacristy, in whose keystone he placed his coat of arms. In Salem itself there is a console stone with his portrait, labeled “M. Hans vō Safoi ”, nothing has survived of the buildings he erected there.

A descendant, the Viennese cathedral builder Hans Saphoy , donated an epitaph in the monastery church of Salem for his ancestors Hans and Marx of Savoy in 1570.

As a coat of arms, Hans von Savoyen used the rafter coat of arms with a compass as well as the parlerian angle post, probably to emphasize his descent in an indirect line from Peter Parler .

literature

Jürgen Michler: Hans of Savoy. Master builder from Salem 500 years ago. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg. 10, 1981, pp. 110–117 (digitized version )