Johann Konrad Bischofberger

Heiden town hall, built in 1838 by Michael Bischofberger based on plans by his brother Johann Konrad Bischofberger.

Johann Konrad Bischofberger (born September 27, 1803 in Heiden AR ; † October 30, 1866 there ; entitled to live in Heiden AR) was a Swiss master builder from the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden .

Life

Johann Konrad Bischofberger was a son of the councilor Johann Ulrich Bischofberger, a bricklayer and stonemason . In 1828 he married Anna Katharina Tobler, daughter of the mayor Michael Tobler. He married his second wife, Susanna Oswald, daughter of Johann Georg Oswald and widow of Johann Heinrich Hess, in 1857.

Together with his brother Michael Bischofberger, he ran a construction business in Heiden. As early as 1828 he described himself as an architect , but there is evidence that he did not appear as such in Appenzell Ausserrhoden until 1836, among other things with the execution and partial planning of public buildings and buildings for the factory owner Johann Georg Euler on the Dorfhalde in Lutzenberg . Johann Konrad Bischofberger played a key role in the reconstruction of the Heiden community after the village fire of 1838 (floor plan). In the construction industry in Eastern Switzerland, he closed the gap between the supraregional construction crews of the 18th century such as the master builder family Grubenmann von Teufen and the modern architects of the Felix Wilhelm Kubly style , with whom Bischofberger often worked.

literature

• Appenzeller Zeitung , November 5, 1866.
• Eugen Steinmann: The art monuments of the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Volume 3: The district of Vorderland. Basel: Birkhäuser 1981, ISBN 3-7643-1251-3 (= Die Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz , Volume 72).
• Benno Schubiger. Felix Wilhelm Kubly (1802–1872). A Swiss architect between classicism and historicism. St. Gallen: State Archives 1984.

Web links

• Thomas Fuchs: Johann Konrad Bischofberger. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 12, 2002 , accessed April 9, 2020 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eugen Steinmann: The art monuments of the canton Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Volume 3: The district of Vorderland. Basel: Birkhäuser 1981, p. 162 (fig.), 166, 183–187 et al

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