Lorenzo Salle

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Lorenzo Salle was a builder and architect of the Baroque period from Roveredo in Graubünden (Switzerland), whose construction activity can be proven in Central Franconia .

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He belonged to the widespread, genealogically hardly researched master builder family of the Salle (Salla, Sala, Sales) and came from the district (frazione) Carassole of Roveredo. It is unlikely that he is the same person as Lorenzo Sala , who worked in Rastatt on behalf of the Princely House of Baden-Baden from 1700 to 1717 . It is not clear whether he or this Lorenzo Sala or a completely different member of the family died in 1766 as “magister Laurentius Sala” (“magister” for “master builder”) in the Hungarian “Petro Varadini” (Peterwardein).

At present, his work as a palier and / or architect is only documented for two churches:

  • Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church in Eckersmühlen in the Margraviate of Brandenburg-Ansbach , built from 1709 to 1710 on behalf of Margrave Wilhelm Friedrich von Ansbach . Salle provided the plans as the architect of the Ansbach and later the Eichstättisch-prince-bishop's building director Gabriel de Gabrieli . It is an almost square hall building with a flat ceiling and arched window openings. The church on the Roth was widened by 6½ shoes compared to the previous “ Willibald Church”, built in 1460 , and lengthened by 9½ shoes. A curved west gable entrance and the outer structure of the pilaster strips indicate that it is a simple baroque structure. Salle had the three-storey church tower with an octagon topped with a tent roof built 25 meters high. The building was pulled up by the “royal court mason” Johann Georg Schmidt and the local mason Hans Heinrich Drechsler.
  • Evangelical-Lutheran parish church of St. Michael in Thalmässing , also a place in the margraviate of Brandenburg-Ansbach, rebuilt in 1712/13 under Gabrieli, with Salle functioning as a palier, i.e. not built according to his own plans.

literature

  • (Contemporary report on church building in Eckersmühlen), in: Heimat-Blatt. Sunday supplement of the Rother Volkszeitung No. 27 of July 5, 1923
  • Neuhofer, Theodor: Contributions to the art history of Bavaria. Eichstätt Monastery. In: Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt 62 (1967/68), pp. 67–69, 82–84
  • Max Pfister: Master builder from Graubünden - Wegbereiter des Barock, Chur: Verlag Bündner Monatsblatt 1993, p. 274 (equated with the Rastatter Sala there), ISBN 3-7954-1037-1

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personal data
SURNAME Salle, Lorenzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss builder and architect
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
DATE OF DEATH 18th century