Johann Baptist Häring
Johann Baptist Häring (born August 16, 1716 in Immendingen ; † February 18, 1790 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German builder of the Baroque period who mainly worked in southern Baden.
He came from a Baroque master builder family in Vorarlberg, his father was the master builder Jakob Häring (born October 27, 1674 in Au / Vorarlberg; † before 1751 in Immendingen), who worked primarily as a church builder in southern Baden, but also for the princes of Fürstenberg. Since 1739 he was resident as a guild citizen in Freiburg and was accepted as a bricklayer and stone mason in the building guild for the moon and rose in 1755 to masonry master craftsman and in 1766 to city architect . He was guild master of the building guild for the moon and in 1785 became a city councilor. In 1745 he built his own house at Herrenstrasse 38 and ran his own brickworks; later he was the owner of several houses in Herrenstrasse and near Oberlinden.
In Freiburg he carried out numerous commissions from the city, university and private individuals, such as secular buildings ( Schwabentorbrücke , 1756; Breisacher Tor , 1757; conversion of the Petershof , 1766; inn to a ship, drafts, 1775; powder tower, 1783; conversion of the Kornhaus to a theater, 1785–89) and residential houses (Konviktstrasse 29, 1748; Münsterplatz 28, 1753).
In addition, he mainly built simple baroque village churches and other ecclesiastical buildings in southern Baden:
- 1747 Church tower of St. Märgen Monastery
- 1753/55 parish church of St. Cyriak and Perpetua in Freiburg-Wiehre
- 1757 renovation of the rectory of St. Columba in Pfaffenweiler
- 1759/77 parish church of St. Blasius in Wyhl am Kaiserstuhl
- 1759 rectory in Endingen am Kaiserstuhl
- 1760/61 prelature of the St. Märgen monastery
- 1763 Refurbishment of the previous baroque building of the parish church Mariae Himmelfahrt in Wasenweiler
- 1763 Parish church (altar house) and rectory in Jechtingen
- 1767 church tower for St. Martin in Hochdorf
- 1767/68 parish church of St. Thomas in Betzenhausen
- 1772 Parish Church of St. Gallus in Hugstetten (since 1966 Evangelical Martin Luther Church)
- 1773/75 parish church of St. Peter in Endingen am Kaiserstuhl
- 1777 rectory in Hugstetten
literature
- Hermann Brommer : Parish Church of the Holy Family and Filial Church of St. Thomas, Freiburg i. Br.-West . Schnell and Steiner, Munich 1986, p. 17 ( digitized version ( memento of April 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive )).
- Haring, Johann Baptist . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 67, de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-598-23034-9 , p. 304.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haring, Johann Baptist |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German builder of the baroque period |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1716 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Immendingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 18, 1790 |
| Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |