Johann Philipp Mattlener

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Twelve Apostles Church, Frankenthal (Pfalz), 1820–23
Antikenhalle Speyer, 1826
Own drawing of the antique hall built by him
Interior of the parish church of the Assumption of Mary, Neustadt an der Saale, 1834–36

Johann Philipp Mattlener , sometimes Madlener or Mattlehner (* 1785 in Molsberg , Westerwald , † June 26, 1857 in Würzburg ) was a German draftsman, civil engineer and architect in the service of the Kingdom of Bavaria .

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Little is known about Mattlener's early life. He was a student of Friedrich Weinbrenner (1766-1826) and arrested his classicist style . Under Emmerich Joseph von Dalberg , around 1808 he was the responsible site manager for the renovation of his Herrnsheim Palace , based on plans by Jakob Friedrich Dyckerhoff .

In 1816 Mattlener joined the Bavarian government. In 1825 he worked as a building manager for the government of the Rhine district in Speyer , where he met the widowed Johanna Maria geb. Pallant married. His first major work in this capacity is the Protestant Twelve Apostles Church in Frankenthal , an imposing, classical building into which he integrated the historic tower of the Erkenbert ruins . The church was built according to his plans in 1820–1823, suffered severe damage in World War II , but was renovated again. In 1822 the historic town hall of Mutterstadt was rebuilt according to Mattlener's designs and in 1826 he built the so-called antiquities hall next to the Speyer Cathedral on behalf of the District President Joseph von Stichaner . It was supposed to be used for the exhibition and representative storage of Roman finds from the Rhine district, but it soon became too small. Since 1930 it has been redesigned as a memorial for the 2nd Royal Bavarian Pioneer Battalion .

From around 1830 Johann Philipp Mattlener worked as a district construction engineer for the Lower Main district in Würzburg. Here, too, he designed various buildings. The two similar churches in Partenstein were built according to his plans, and in 1834–36 he designed the interior of the already existing parish church of the Assumption of Mary in Neustadt an der Saale . For the Kiliansdom in Würzburg he designed a tabernacle that went down in the Second World War.

On July 9, 1841, Mattlener took over the position of district engineer in the government of Swabia and Neuburg .

On May 13, 1848, Philipp Mattlener took early retirement due to poor health. He retired to Würzburg, where he lived with his wife at 8 Kettengasse and died on June 26, 1857, at the age of 72. During his retirement, the artist designed a processional shrine for the heads of the Franconian apostles Kilian , Kolonat and Totnan .

Johann Philipp Mattlener often made drawings for his projects, but also of found antiquities, grave slabs, inscriptions and the like on government or church orders. There is a very detailed representation of his antiquities hall in the Speyer city archive . Several images of historical finds that he had drawn for the Speyer district president Stichaner have also been preserved.

Philipp Müller (1804–1870), theologian and rector of the Campo Santo Teutonico in Rome , was Mattlener's nephew and temporarily lived with him in Speyer.

Web links

gallery

  • The old town hall in Mutterstadt, which was converted by Mattlener

  • Evangelical Christ Church in Partenstein

  • Badge for the XXI. Bavarian Pioneer Bundestag, Speyer 1934, with motif of the Speyer Antikenhalle by Johann Philipp Mattlener

  • Antique drawings by Johann Philipp Mattlener, 1824

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Sander: Architecture as a Mirror of History: The Twelve Apostles Church in Frankenthal , in: Frankenthal once and now , volume 2014, Stadtverwaltung Frankenthal, pp. 15-21
  2. ^ Hans Caspary: Handbook of German Art Monuments: Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland , Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1984, p. 284; (Detail scan)
  3. ↑ Clemens Jöckle : Prussian Influences on Classicist Architecture in the Palatinate , in: Pfälzer Heimat , Palatinate Society for the Promotion of Science, Speyer, 29th year, 1978, page 140, footnote 12
  4. ↑ Speyerer weekly advertisement sheet , page 177 of the year 1825; (Digital scan)
  5. ↑ Website on the history of the Twelve Apostles Church, with reference to Mattlener ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Illustrated website for the Speyer Antikenhalle
  7. ^ Government Gazette for the Kingdom of Bavaria , No. 15, Munich, April 12, 1832, column 270 of the year; (Digital scan)
  8. ↑ Newspaper article from Main-Post Würzburg, on the churches in Partenstein, with a mention of Mattlener as an architect (23 May 2011)
  9. ^ Ernst Förster: Handbook for Travelers in Germany , Munich, 1847, page 505; (Digital scan)
  10. ^ Intelligence Gazette from Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg of the Kingdom of Bavaria , page 513 of the year 1841; (Digital scan)
  11. ^ Government Gazette for the Kingdom of Bavaria , No. 32, Munich, May 22, 1848, column 596 of the year; (Digital scan)
  12. ↑ Würzburger Stadt- und Landbote: Allgemeine Anzeiger für Würzburg and surroundings , page 942 of the year 1857 (digital scan)
  13. ↑ Würzburger Anzeiger , No. 176, of June 27, 1857; (Digital scan)
  14. ↑ Die Bayerische Presse , No. 162, Würzburg, July 8, 1850; (Digital scan)
  15. ^ Intelligence Gazette of the Rhine District , No. 290, Speyer October 20, 1824, page 1252 of the year and table after; (Digital scan with illustration of drawings)
  16. ^ Association for the History of Bad Ems , Association News, No. 66, September 2018, p. 2 and 3, PDF view
personal data
SURNAME Mattlener, Johann Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Madlener, Johann Philipp; Mattlehner, Johann Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Molsberg
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1857
Place of death Wurzburg