Johann Peter Moll

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Johann Peter Moll , also Johann Petrus Moll or Johannes Moll , (baptized February 13, 1703 in Grombach ; † December 6 or 8, 1767 ) was a German builder of the Baroque era . He was also mayor in Grombach, where he renewed the Catholic Church of St. Margaretha and made foundations for its equipment.

Life

Moll was the son of a stonemason who immigrated from Gramais in Tyrol in 1702 and married Anna Catharina Laub († 1768) in 1730, who came from a Grombach mayor family. From 1749 he was mayor himself in Grombach. The Lords of Venningen , who exercised the local rule in Grombach, appointed Moll as master builder for numerous building projects in the places belonging to them in the Kraichgau . The gentlemen von Gemmingen , who also had extensive properties in the Kraichgau, commissioned Moll with the construction. Having become prosperous, Moll was not only able to make donations for the altars of the St. Margaretha Church in Grombach, which he renovated in 1759, but also money for the Franciscans in Sinsheim , the Augustinians in Wiesloch , the Dominicans in Wimpfen , the Capuchins in Waghäusel and the Donate St. Anne's Chapel in Weiler . He died childless; most of his estate went to the Catholic parish in Grombach. Franz-Joseph Remlinger († 1788) continued his workshop and his tasks , who followed Moll in the office of Grombacher Schultheiss.

During the renovation of the St. Margaretha Church in Grombach in 1981, the skeleton of a man with a wig was found in the church floor. It is believed that it was Moll who was buried as the donor inside the nave that he built.

buildings

Appreciation

Johannes-Moll-Strasse in Grombach is named after him.

literature

  • City of Bad Rappenau (ed.): Grunbach uff dem Creichgöw , Bad Rappenau 2010, pp. 128, 304-311, 360 and 521/522.
personal data
SURNAME Minor, Johann Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moll, Johann Petrus; Minor, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German builder of the baroque
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1703
PLACE OF BIRTH Grombach
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1767 or December 8, 1767