Leonhard Mertz

Brother Leonhard Mertz (* around 1430 in Stierstadt ; † around 1498) was a German Franciscan and organ builder in Frankfurt am Main .

Mertz belonged to the barefoot monastery in Frankfurt and was its guardian in the 1470s . He was mentioned in a document around 1459/61 when he built an organ with 1,400 pipes for the Cathedral of Barcelona.

List of works (selection)

year	place	church	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1459	Barcelona	cathedral
1462	Frankfurt am Main	Imperial Cathedral of St. Bartholomew
1475	Frankfurt am Main	Church of Our Lady
1479	Nuremberg	St. Lorenz				This organ must have been really huge because it cracked the vault of the Lorenz Church and was therefore replaced (probably 1,604 pipes)
1480/81	Rothenburg ob der Tauber	St. Jacob
1482	Wurzburg	Lady Chapel
1483	Worms	Dom
1488/89	Mainz	St. Alban
1489	Koblenz	St. Castor

literature

• Reinhard Frost: Mertz, Leonhard. In: Wolfgang Klötzer (Ed.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 , p. 44-45 .
• Bernhard Hemmerle : Organ building in the Limburg-Weilburg district . In: Yearbook 2004 for the Limburg-Weilburg district . District Committee (District Home Office) of the Limburg-Weilburg district, Limburg 2003.
• Franz Krautwurst:  Mertz (Marcae, Martius, Mirtz), Leonhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 189 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Mertz, Leonhard. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Leonhard Mertz in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
• Hermann Fischer: Mertz, Leonhard in the Frankfurt personal dictionary