Johann Rigalia the Younger

Johann Rigalia the Younger (also: Giovanni; also: Rigaia; Rigaga; also: Rigaglia; also Giovanni III. Rigalia) (* around 1697; † 14 September 1733 in Augsburg ) was a master mason from Graubünden in the service of the Prince Diocese of Eichstätt during the Baroque period .

Life

He was a / the son of Giovanni Rigalia the Elder from Roveredo (Roffle) in Graubünden (mentioned 1687–1713), who worked in 1701 under the architect Enrico Zuccalli at the electoral palace at Schleissheim . Johann was still trained in his homeland and in 1713, at the age of 16, after his apprenticeship from the Masons' Corporation ( guild ) in Roveredo (Mesolcina), he received a letter of safe conduct for his work in Germany. Like many of his compatriots, he had chosen Eichstätt as a destination for his journeyman years, where he can be traced back to 1714. In the prince-bishopric of Eichstätt under Gabriel de Gabrieli he finally acted as "Ober Maurer Foreman" and was one of his closest employees as the responsible site manager. He was married to a Catarina. He visited his homeland several times, for example in 1720 and 1729. During the construction of the Catholic pharmacy at Augsburg Cathedral, for which Rigalia had taken on the contract, a stone fell on the back of his head on September 12, 1733; he passed away two days later.

After his death, Giovanni Domenico Barbieri , whom he had brought to Eichstätt as an apprentice mason in 1720, took over his position as court mason.

buildings

Rigalia's construction activity has been proven for:

• 1714–16 Imperial City of Windsheim , new town hall building (with Michael Asbacher )
• from 1717 Mendorf , St. Leodegar Church (attribution)
• 1722/23 Hitzhofen , parish church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary
• 1723 Paulushofen , parish church including the Gothic east tower of a previous building
• 1726 Breitenbrunn , tower of the parish church
• 1726 Buchdorf , parish church (built according to own plans)
• 1726 Oberwiesenacker , Catholic parish church St. Willibald, new building
• 1728 Gnotzheim -Spielberg, St. Georg Church, construction management based on designs by Franz de Gabrieli
• 1729 Eichstätt, Heilig-Geist-Spital
• 1730 Eichstätt, Domdechantei, extensive repair work
• 1730 Munich - Nymphenburg , house building for the merchant Rastellio
• 1732 Morsbach , castle / parsonage conversion (canceled in 1960)
• 1733 Altdorf , new construction of the parish church
• 1733 Augsburg , new building of the cath. Pharmacy (continued by Giovanni Domenico Barbieri after Rigalia's death , completed in 1734)

literature

• Collective sheet of the Historisches Verein Eichstätt 60 (1962/64), pp. 46f., 62 (1967/68), under footnote 2
• Max Pfistner: Master builder from Graubünden - pioneer of the baroque. Chur: Verlag Bündner Monatsblatt 1993, p. 267f.
• Giovanni Domenico Barbieri (1704–1764). A Graubündner as master mason to the Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt. Autobiography and edition journal, Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner 2004, et al. P. 89ff.

Web links

• Building history of the church of Mendorf
• Photo from Windsheim Town Hall
• Photo of the Breitenbrunn church
• Photo of the church of Buchdorf
• Photo of the church of Oberwiesenacker
• Photo of the church of Paulushofen