Johann Baptist Weber (master builder)

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Johann Baptist Weber (born August 28, 1756 in Bräunlingen ; † March 3, 1826 in St. Peter (Upper Black Forest) ) was a builder of early classicism in southwest Germany.

Life

Johann Weber was the son of Michael Weber from Pfohren . He married Maria Anna Käfer from Aufen on February 3, 1784 in Bräunlingen, now a district of Donaueschingen . She was perhaps a relative of the Freiburg cathedral master builder Johann (Johannes Kefer) Käfer, who died in 1775 at the age of 42 and who also came from Donaueschingen.

In 1805 Weber was appointed master builder for St. Peter . Abbot Ignaz Speckle wrote on August 8, 1805: “Since I got to know Johann Weber von Bräunlingen, who leads the building in Gremmelsbach , as an honest, intelligent, loyal man in this business, I accepted him as the local builder at his request and gave him the assurance today. ”In addition to the baroque church and the convent buildings, the monastery builder was also responsible for the buildings of the local monastery, the Petershof in Freiburg, buildings in Zähringen, the priory in St. Ulrich , the provost in Sölden and the churches Parish houses in Stegen-Eschbach , Waldau and Neukirch . After Weber moved to St. Peter in April 1806, he had just eight months to exercise his office until the abbey was closed in November 1806 in the course of secularization . He was taken on as a "manorial foreman" in Baden services.

The son of Johann Weber was the stone sculptor Matthias Weber (born February 5, 1790 in Bräunlingen, † April 5, 1866 in St. Peter), from whom stone carving work in the cemeteries of St. Peter, St. Ulrich, Waldau and Buchenbach as well as the Old cemetery of Freiburg can be found. After 1820 he only worked as a building contractor (foreman). His son was the painter Dominik Weber .

The counselor and local researcher of St. Peter, Klaus Weber, researched the life and work of Weber and his descendants.

plant

Two of Weber's own works are known: On the one hand, the parish church of St. Josef in Gremmelsbach , a simple late Baroque building where Abbot Ignaz Speckle met him. He was responsible for the building supervision after the costs had been taken over by the Breisgauer Stifts in addition to a donation from Archduke Ferdinand . On the other hand, the parish church of St. Blasius in Buchenbach , which was later expanded and is now neo-Gothic. Weber's plan envisaged a “still rich baroque church with excessive structure on the turret and on the outside,” writes the art historian Joseph Sauer . Senior building officer Friedrich Theodor Fischer and the Weinbrenner pupil Friedrich Arnold made a revision, which can possibly be seen in the illustrated design plans.

  • Draft plan of the church in Buchenbach

  • Elevation

  • Layout

Ultimately, the sacristy was moved to the rearmost part of the choir and the planned tower was replaced by a roof turret. The plans for a possible enlargement of the church by Max Meckel , the building director of the Archdiocese of Freiburg, recorded on site in 1897 show a nave in simple classical forms. Construction began on May 12, 1811 the demolition of the old Blaise chapel and was already on 15 November 1811 the consecration ( blessing ) of the church equipped to close.

  • Executed church in Buchenbach

  • Side view

  • Layout

literature

  • Klaus Weber: The Freiburg painter Dominik Weber and his family. In: Schau-ins-Land 101, 1982, pp. 263–274 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On Johann Käfer see Hermann Brommer : The old rectory in Merzhausen . In: Schau-ins-Land 1975/77, p. 405 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Quotation from Klaus Weber from Ursmar Engelmann (ed.): The diary of Ignaz Speckle, Abbot of St. Peter im Schwarzwand, 2nd part 1803–1819 (= publications of the Commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg, Series A, Volume 13 ). Stuttgart 1966, p. 101.
  3. ^ Klaus Weber: The Freiburg painter Dominik Weber and his family. In: Schau-ins-Land 101, 1982, pp. 263-274.
  4. ↑ Joseph Sauer: The church art of the first half of the 19th century in Baden . Freiburg i. Br. 1933, page 77 f. ( Digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Manfred Hermann: Catholic parish church St. Blasius Buchenbach . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2002, ISBN 3-89870-049-6 , p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Builder of early classicism in southwest Germany
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Bräunlingen
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1826
Place of death St. Peter (Black Forest)