Johann Jakob Michael Küchel

Johann Jakob Michael Küchel (* 19th August 1703 in Bamberg , † 2. June 1769 ibid) was a German architect of the rococo .

Küchel, a student of the architect Maximilian von Welsch , was appointed his court architect by Bishop Friedrich Carl Graf von Schönborn , the Bishop of Bamberg . Along with Leonhard Dientzenhofer and Balthasar Neumann, he is considered the third great architect from Bamberg. In 1737 he went to Regensburg , Nuremberg , Dresden , Berlin , Munich , Vienna , Raab , Ofen , Pest , Pressburg and Bohemia on behalf of Prince-Bishop Friedrich Karlto study the Rococo architecture there. His travel diary is preserved in the Bamberg State Archives and is considered to be one of the most important comprehensive travelogues from the beginning of the 18th century.

Works (selection)

• Rectory in Leutenbach (1738; list of monuments )
• Former prince-bishop foal farm in Peulendorf , 1739
• Redesign of the old town hall of Bamberg, 1744–1756
• Seehof Castle , Memmelsdorf , several buildings (1736–1738, 1753)
• Garden pavilion in the rose garden of the residence in Bamberg
• Side wing of the Ullstadt palace complex
• Former district court , residential building since 1959, in Hollfeld (1743)
• Expansion of Thurn Castle , Heroldsbach community , to a baroque complex (1747–56)
• Elisabethenspital in Pottenstein , 1751–53
• Construction of the church in Pettstadt , 1754
• St. Bartholomäus in Buttenheim , nave and choir (1754–1757)
• Elisabethen Hospital in Scheßlitz , 1766–1767
• St. Kilian's Church in Pretzfeld
• Valentini Chapel in Unterleiterbach
• St. Laurentius in Lettenreuth

literature

• Jakob Degen : The master builder Johann Jakob Michael Küchel and his relationship with Kronach . In: Blätter vom Frankenwald, local supplement to the "Franconian Forest". Born in 1934. No. 2.
• Joachim Hotz: Johann Jacob Michael Küchel: His life, his time in Mainz and his work for the state palaces of the Franconian nobility. Dissertation, Würzburg 1964
• Joachim Hotz :  Küchel, Michael. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 175 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Roland Kunzmann: The church buildings of Johann Jakob Michael Küchel . Dissertation, University of Bamberg 2005 ( full text )
• J. Mayerhofer, Yearbook for Munich History, third year, Bamberg, 1889