Johann Michael Keller the Elder

Johann Michael Keller the Elder (* 1687 in Dürrwangen ; † 1735 ) was a German builder .

Works

Keller was the son of master mason Jakob Keller. He moved to Neckarsulm before 1721 and, together with Peter Elias Berthold, rebuilt the Teutonic Order Church in Heilbronn in 1720 . From 1724 he carried out the renovation of Horneck Castle on the Neckar, initially together with his older brother Franz Keller, at the behest of Prince-Bishop of Breslau and Elector of Trier, Franz Ludwig von Pfalz-Neuburg . After the death of Franz Keller, he continued the work according to his plans until 1728. He also carried out the renovation of the order residences in Ellingen and Ellwangen. He was the father of the builder of the same name, Johann Michael Keller the Younger .

literature

• Walter Klein : Johann Michael Keller, his work and his employees. A Baroque builder from Gmünd. Greiner & Pfeiffer, Stuttgart 1923 ( Gmünder Art. Volume 3)
• Keller, Johann Michael (the elder) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 20 : Kaufmann – Knilling . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1927.
• Joachim J. Hennze : The cellars. A Franconian master builder family of the Baroque age (= sources and studies on the history of the Teutonic Order. Volume 39). Verlag Elwert, Marburg allegedly 1990 (not yet published, also dissertation, University of Freiburg im Breisgau, 1986)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Building history of Horneck Castle. Siebenbürgisches Museum Gundelsheim eV, accessed on October 25, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Konrad Gündisch: History of Horneck Castle, fifth episode: The Baroque Castle . In: Transylvanian newspaper . March 31, 2017 ( sevenbuerger.de ).