Jacob Haylmann

Jacob Haylmann , Jakob Heilmann or Jacob von Schweinfurt (* around 1475 in Schweinfurt ; † between 1523 and 1524 in Annaberg ) was a German architect and builder of the early Renaissance . His most important achievement was the arching of the St. Anne's Church in Annaberg and organizational innovations in the Saxon building industry, which included free sculpture more in the building projects.

Life

View of the vault of St. Anne's Church

Floor plan of St. Anne's Church

Coat of arms hall in Albrechtsburg, vaulted by Jakob Haylmann in 1522

Haylmann, who comes from Schweinfurt, learned the stonemason trade. Around 1500 he probably worked under Benedikt Ried at the Wladislawsaal on the Hradschin in Prague .

In April 1515, Haylmann was appointed by Duke Georg von Sachsen as the new master builder of the Annenkirche in Annaberg after the master builder Peter Ulrich had died. Here he designed the eye-catching loop vault of the hall church based on the Prague model and built the side choirs.

In 1521, Haylmann designed a vault for the coat of arms hall of the Albrechtsburg Castle in Meißen, which consists of twisted, fragmented and abruptly breaking ribs and thus also referred to the royal architecture in Prague. The vault was built in 1522.

Haylmann was also active as an expert. In 1517/18 he was called to Brüx in Bohemia to draw up plans for the reconstruction of the town church, which burned down in 1513 . The new vault was probably built according to his design, with the execution being led by Georg von Maulbronn.

From Annaberg, Haylmann sent Parliere to Zwickau, who built the municipal department store on the market (1522-1525).

In 1518, organizational innovations introduced by Haylmann in the Saxon construction industry led to the so-called Annaberg Hüttenstreit. Since he had reduced the apprenticeship time in Annaberg and employed non-brash sculptors like Christoph Walther I , the Magdeburg construction works accused him of violating traditional customs. In order to clarify the allegations, foremen and journeymen from Saxony, Bohemia and Silesia met in Annaberg in 1518 for Hüttentag and acquitted Haylmann. The traditional protocol of the hut day is an important document for the highly developed organization of construction in the late Middle Ages.

Haylmann owned the houses in Kleine Kirchgasse 45, Kupferstrasse 18 and Große Kirchgasse 3 in Annaberg.

literature

• Hans Burkhardt : Jakob Haylmann. Life and work of the famous Franconian master builder (1475-1525) , in: Der Heimatfreund für das Erzgebirge, 2/1973, pp. 37–40.
• Klaus Mertens:  Heilmann, Jakob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 261 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Article by Matthias Donath on Heilmann (Haylmann, von Schweinfurt), Jakob in the Saxon Biography