Johann Martersteck

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Choir of St. Markus Church in Reinheim (Gersheim) ; everything except the main altar works by Johann Martersteck from the former monastery church Gräfinthal
“Samson pulpit” by Johann Martersteck, created for the Gräfinthal monastery church, today St. Markus Gersheim-Reinheim

Johann torture plug more often in the variants "Jean" or "Mader plug" (* 1691 in Saar Bockenheim (now Sarre-Union ), †  1764 in Cub Ingen at Assemblies bridges , Duchy of Lorraine ) was a sculptor , wood carver and altar builder of the Baroque and Rococo , the mainly worked in the Saarland-Lorraine border area.

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Johann Martersteck comes from a Franconian family who immigrated to the Duchy of Lorraine . He was born in 1691 in Saarbockenheim, the part of today's Sarre-Union on the right bank of the Saar. Saarbockenheim or Bouquenom was part of Lorraine at that time, now Sarre-Union is the capital of the so-called "Crooked Alsace" . Since 1735 Martersteck had a job as a clerk in Wölflingen near Saargemünd in Lorraine , later he worked there as a community leader on behalf of the Jesuits of Saarbockenheim, where an important branch of the order was located.

In addition to his civil service, Johann Martersteck mainly worked in the sacred area as an artist in his home country, creating altars and high-quality church inventory from wood, adding color and also earning a well-known name as a wood and stone sculptor.

One of his main works was the baroque furnishings of the monastery church of Gräfinthal , created by him from 1733–1736 , which, however, after the dissolution of the monastery (1785) was scattered and auctioned off by the French revolutionaries in 1793 as "firewood". As a result, the pulpit, confessionals, paneling, etc. a. to the Catholic Church of St. Markus zu Gersheim-Reinheim , where they are one of the special sights today. The pulpit in particular, which rests on a figure of the Old Testament judge Samson , is considered to be one of the most beautiful surviving creations by Martersteck.

The former high altar of Gräfinthal, which the artist designed as a grace altar for the installation of the Vesper picture “ Our Lady with the Arrows ”, is now in the modern parish church of St. Paul zu Blieshaben-Bolchen .

But stone crosses also come from Martersteck's workshop, such as the one at the “Schwemme” (former horse trough, now the village fountain) in Ormesheim . It bears the signature: “J. Torture stake fecit 1753 ".

In the Lorraine communities of Rahling , Siersthal , Loutzviller and Rimling, as well as in Sarrewerden in Alsace and in the St. Vinzenz von Paul chapel in Urbach, there are high altars by Johann Martersteck in the Catholic churches; the church of Saint Didier in Gros-Réderching even has an ensemble of three altars by Johann Martersteck. The Olferding altarpiece from 1755 has been lost.

A memorial page from the Saar-Palatinate district about the artist states that Johann Martersteck's works of art are "still widespread in numerous localities in the lower Blies and central Saar ".

Johann Martersteck's son Franz (also Johann Franz), to whom the wayside cross at the Letschenbachbrücke not far from the Gräfinthal monastery is attributed, worked together with his father in the same profession. The two are often confused, in particular the second name "Franz" is sometimes assigned to the father.

literature

  • Hermann Keuth: "The Madersteck family of sculptors from Bockenheim an Saar and Blies"; At school. - Vol. 6. 1953. pp. 121–126, 1953 link to the source
  • Albert Becker: "The Master of Reinheim - Joh. Franz Madersteck"; In: Palatinate Museum. - 48 (1931), pp. 291-293 link to the source

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source on the church inventory from Gräfinthal in Reinheim
  2. ↑ Source on the location of the former high altar
  3. ↑ Description and photo of the Gräfinthaler high altar in the church of St. Paul zu Blieshaben ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 369 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mbt-neu.saar-new-media.com
  4. ^ Source on the cross in Ormesheim
  5. ^ Source on the altar in Rahling
  6. ↑ Illustrated page on Rahling, with a mention of Martersteck and an enlargeable picture of his high altar
  7. ↑ Illustrated page on Siersthal, with a mention of Martersteck and an enlargeable picture of his high altar
  8. ↑ Trinity Church in Loutzviller
  9. ↑ Website for the church of Rimling, with an enlargeable picture of the Martersteck high altar
  10. ↑ To the Martersteck altar in Saar Werden, with photo that can be enlarged
  11. ↑ Website, St. Didier, Gros-Réderching, with photos of the Martersteck altars that can be enlarged
  12. ↑ Olferding
personal data
SURNAME Martersteck, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martersteck, Jean; Madersteck, Johann; Madersteck, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lorraine sculptor, wood carver and altar builder
DATE OF BIRTH 1691
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbockenheim
DATE OF DEATH 1764
Place of death Wölflingen near Bliesbrücken