Leonhard Jennewein

Marienkirche in Rodalben, 1732–1735

Reformed parish church (Johanneskirche) in Pirmasens, 1750–1758

Leonhard Jennewein (baptized November 4, 1682 in St. Leonhard im Pitztal ; † February 2, 1754 ) was a German builder.

Life

Jennewein was born in 1682 in the Tyrolean community of St. Leonhard as the son of Nikolaus Jennewein and Maria Erhard from Ausserlehn in the Pitztal. He came to the Palatinate as a young seasonal worker , where numerous Tyrolean construction workers were hiring out at the time. Presumably, he followed his uncle Georg Erhard here, who can be traced back to 1684 when the office building was being built in Thaleischweiler and who settled permanently in Fehrbach as a bricklayer in 1695 at the latest . Leonhard Jennewein married Anna Eva Augustin, the daughter of a French immigrant, in Rodalben in 1704 and thus also settled in the West Palatinate. After her early death in 1706, also in Rodalben, he married Maria Katharina Raquet, a relative of his first wife.

Jennewein's first work can be found in 1711 and 1713 at the Lutheran Church in Pirmasens . Over the years he increasingly attracted workers and builders from his Tyrolean homeland and became the most important building contractor in the region. In 1720 he was entrusted with building the Pirmasens hunting lodge. From 1732 to 1735 he built the Catholic Church of the Birth of Mary in Rodalben. In 1741 he remodeled the hunting lodge in Pirmasens. He received further stately orders after Landgrave Ludwig IX established the garrison in the same year . They were partly carried out in cooperation with his brother Peter Jennewein and his son-in-law Philipp Schiffer. His last major work was the reformed parish church in Pirmasens (from 1750), but he did not live to see its completion.

literature

• Markus Bauer: Tyrolean builders as immigrants to the West Palatinate . In: Pfälzisch-Rheinische Familienkunde 64 (2015), pp. 212–214

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The landgrave's castle in Pirmasens on www.regionalgeschichte.net