Johannes Holl (master builder, 1512)

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The entrance to the "Sankt Markus" church built by Johannes Holl in the Augsburg Fuggerei

Johannes "Hans" Holl (* 1512 in Augsburg ; † January 1, 1594 ibid) was an Augsburg master builder of the German Renaissance and father of Elias Holl .

Life

Johannes Holl was born around 1512 as the son of the bricklayer Sebastian Holl (1482–1545) and his wife Veronika († 1522). Thanks to the family's building tradition, Holl found his clients in the urban patriciate , for whom he built commercial and residential buildings, but also country castles.

Only a few of his buildings are still preserved today: between 1573 and 1575 he built the monastery church for the Franciscan Sisters of Maria Stern in Augsburg. The church "Sankt Anna und Sankt Elisabeth" was consecrated in 1576. The corresponding octagonal tower, on which his eldest son Jonas played a decisive role, was given the roof finish of the first onion dome created in Germany , which was widely used in southern Germany from here. In 1578 he designed the arched columned hall of the building at today's Philippine-Welser-Straße  28, which came closest to the Italian ideas of the Renaissance - otherwise he usually had his own style. In the years 1581 to 1582 he built the “Sankt Markus” church, founded by Markus Fugger (1529–1597) and Philipp Eduard Fugger (1546–1618) in the Fuggerei , the oldest social settlement in the world.

progeny

  1. ⚭ August 22, 1538 Apollonia Reichler († 1570)
    1. Jonas (1542–1623), bricklayer
  2. ⚭ January 10, 1572 Barbara Hohenauer (1537–1607)
    1. Elias (1573–1646), builder
    2. Esaias (* 1580), master mason

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Norbert Lieb:  Holl, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 532 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ House of Bavarian History : Monasteries in Bavaria: Augsburg, St. Maria Stern - "Star women" built the first onion hood in Swabia - accessed on January 5, 2012.
  3. ↑ Augsburger Stadtlexikon : Holl - Retrieved on January 5, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Holl, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holl, Hans (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Augsburg builder of the German Renaissance and father of Elias Holl
DATE OF BIRTH 1512
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1594
Place of death augsburg