Jörg Kling

Jörg Kling (* around 1450 probably in Erfurt ; † November 28, 1506 in Vienna ) was a German-Austrian architect and stonemason and from 1488 master builder of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna .

Life

Jörg Kling came from Erfurt, as the Viennese master tables indicate ( Jörg Kling from Erfurt was Pawmeister pey S. Steffan as man zalt Anno 1506 ), where he will have worked on the late Gothic nave of the Erfurt Cathedral, which was started in 1455 . In 1488, Kling succeeded Simon Achleitner in the office of master builder and headed the Wiener Hütte for almost two decades. Kling died on November 28, 1506, as his tombstone in St. Stephan, which had not been preserved, had shown.

activity

The progress of the construction work on the north tower of St. Stephan under Kling's construction management can be traced through the series of annual figures, which were regularly added from 1491. According to this, most of the unfinished bell storey, including the three viewing gables, was built under it, with the expansion taking place slowly and no more than about two stone layers per year. When designing the display gable, Kling decidedly defied the more conservative repertoire of forms of his two predecessors by using late Gothic designs with fish- bladder elements . The death lamp on the choir head of St. Stephan, dated 1502, goes back to him.

Jörg Öchsl was Kling's successor as master builder in Vienna .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Richard Perger: The builders of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna in the late Middle Ages . In: Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte 23, 1970, p. 99f.
2. ^ Johann Josef Böker : St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, architecture as a symbol for the house of Austria , Verlag Anton Pustet, Salzburg 2007, p. 307.