Johann Kaspar Herwarthel

Johann Kaspar Herwarthel (born December 27, 1675 in Mainz , † November 13, 1720 in Mannheim ) was an architect and builder of the Rhenish - Franconian Baroque .

Works

Younger Dalberger Hof

• Castle Herrnsheimer Castle , reconstruction of late medieval moated castle the baroque castle (from 1714)
• High altar in St. Peter in Herrnsheim (today: Worms ), a foundation by Philipp Wilhelm von Dalberg (* March 22, 1671; † May 22, 1721). The altar was created in collaboration with the sculptor Martin Biterich and the painter Franz Edmund Hügel . As part of the neo-Gothic remodeling of the church 1904/1905, the altar was removed and after St. Paul in Worms translocated , where he, again as an altar since 1929 dedicated to the Dominicans used in their monastery church.
• Younger Dalberger Hof , planning and execution of the largest still preserved aristocratic court in Mainz (1715–1718)
• Mannheim Castle and Castle Church , initial planning 1720
• baroque castle building Johannisberg Castle (Rheingau)
• Two cracks for a new town house in Mainz (1720)

literature

• Reinhard Schneider: The Dalberger Hof in Mainz and its architect Caspar Herwartel . Worms, 1986
• Karl Lohmeyer : The builders of the Rhenish-Frankish baroque . Benno Filser Verlag, 1931
• Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Volume 1, 1914 Central Germany

Remarks

1. ^ Philipp Wilhelm von Dalberg was a son of the President of the Reich Chamber Court, Philipp Franz Eberhard von Dalberg . Philipp Wilhelm became canon in Worms and Mainz in 1695 , canon in the monastery of St. Alban in front of Mainz and canon in the knightly monastery of St. Feratius in Bleidenstadt .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In addition: Ludwig Baron Döry : The former Herrnsheim high altar, now in the St. Pauluskirche Worms . In: Der Wormsgau 13 (1979/1981), pp. 113-125. ( as PDF )
2. ↑ Irene Spille: The cath. Parish Church of St. Peter in Worms-Herrnsheim . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2006, p. 10.