Johannes de Pay

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Dome of the Hedingen monastery church in Sigmaringen

Johannes de Pay (* 1844 in Cannstatt ; † May 19, 1899 ) was a German architect and construction clerk .

Life

Johannes de Pay was the eldest son of the architect and royal Württemberg construction officer Vinzenz de Pay . He studied at the Stuttgart Polytechnic and then initially worked in the state railway administration, initially in the Kingdom of Württemberg , and from 1872 under imperial authority in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine . In 1876 he was appointed court chamber and building advisor to the Prince of Hohenzollern . In this office he expanded the Hedingen monastery church in Sigmaringen to include a crypt, planned a palace for the princess mother, a museum and a memorial for Kaiser Wilhelm I, as well as a small castle in Inzigkofen . The renovation of the castle in Krauchenwies and the reconstruction of the fire-damaged residential castle in Sigmaringen , whose roof structure caught fire due to an accident during the installation of electrical lighting in 1893, were also part of his tasks.

Johannes de Pay was impressed by the early Renaissance buildings he had seen in Italy . In 1884 he brought out his work The Renaissance in Church Architecture in Berlin .

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SURNAME Pay, Johannes de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and construction officer
DATE OF BIRTH 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Cannstatt
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1899