Markus Gattinger

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Markus Gattinger (also Marcus Gattinger ; born March 29, 1713 in Ostersee near Iffeldorf ; † August 7, 1753 in Würzburg ) was a Bavarian locksmith and blacksmith .

Life

Markus Gattinger was born as the eighth child of the rural couple Matthias and Anastasia Gattinger. The father saw little chance for his fifth-born son in the local Iffeldorf and therefore sent him to an apprenticeship as a blacksmith. It is not known where he completed his apprenticeship, but he worked as a journeyman in Krems and later in Vienna under Johann Georg Oegg , who was in the service of Prince Eugene . Gattinger accompanied Oegg to Würzburg in 1733 in order to carry out further expansion work on the residence of Prince-Bishop Friedrich Karl . After eight years of work in Würzburg, Gattinger married Eva Rosinna Seewald in 1741, the widow of the master locksmith of the Würzburg cathedral chapter , whose workshop he took over. The marriage of the master's widow gave him the opportunity to become a master himself, which was a difficult undertaking according to the guild rules of the time. He also became the father of seven children and the master of one of the most prestigious workshops in Würzburg.

Gattinger's masterpiece in the form of an iron chest with 18 bars was initially not recognized by the examination committee, but after he complained to the court, it was decided that the masterpiece should be recognized without hesitation. On April 17, 1742, Markus Gattinger was appointed master craftsman.

On August 7, 1753, Gattinger died at the age of 40 in Würzburg, where Gattingerstrasse today commemorates him.

Works

Choir lattice in Amorbach Abbey Church (detail)

The first work that can be verified by Gattinger is the choir grille in the Abbey Church of Amorbach , on which he worked from 1749 to 1750.

Around 1750 he made a wrought-iron grille for the Ursuline monastery in Würzburg .

His main work is the final grille in Würzburg Cathedral , which Gattinger made with seven journeymen between 1750 and 1752 and which is considered the most important of its kind in all of Franconia .

literature

  • Philipp Schrepfer , Josef Stumpf: Oegg and Gattinger, two Würzburg art locksmiths of the 18th century. Festival for the Oegg celebration. Friends of Mainfränkischer Art and History, Würzburg 1952, DNB 454468520 .

Web links

Commons : Markus Gattinger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Bosl (Ed.): Bavarian Biography. 8000 personalities from 15 centuries . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 ( online )
  2. ^ A b c d Karl Exner, Kornelia Bukovec: Iffeldorf. History of a village . Ed .: Municipality of Iffeldorf. 1994, p. 207-208 .
  3. ↑ Hans-Peter Trenschel: The Würzburg guild of locksmiths, rifle, watch and winch makers . In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume 2: From the Peasants' War in 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814. Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1477-8 , pp. 448–453, here: pp. 451 and 542.
  4. ↑ Amorbach Abbey Church wrought iron lattice M. Gattinger postcard. In: www.postales24.de. Retrieved October 31, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Architectural monuments of Würzburg. (PDF; 330 KB) Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, November 11, 2015, p. 86 , accessed on January 10, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Gattinger, Markus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gattinger, Marcus; Gattinger, Marx
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian blacksmith
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1713
PLACE OF BIRTH Iffeldorf
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1753
Place of death Wurzburg