Martin Frantz

Martin Frantz , also Martin Frantz the Elder. J. , and Martin Frantzen (* 1679 in Tallinn , † 6. November 1742 in Legnica ) was a in the first half of the 18th century in Lower Silesia acting architect and builder .

Life

His parents were Martin Frantz the Elder , who came from Dresden and of the same name. Ä., Since 1677 city mason in Reval, and Else, née Seeger. After her husband died in 1684, she married Georg Winkler, the Reval city architect, for the second time.

Martin Frantz the Elder J. was baptized Protestant on March 4, 1681 in Reval. In 1691 he began an apprenticeship with his stepfather Georg Winkler, which he completed in 1697 with the journeyman's examination. During the following years of traveling he probably stayed in Stockholm for some time . In 1704 he is recorded in Liegnitz, where he was active in the construction of the Jesuit college, which was planned by the master builder Johann Georg Knoll . After his death on November 11, 1704, the completion was entrusted to him. In 1705 he acquired civil rights and master craftsman rights in Liegnitz, where he married Barbara Elisabeth Schönwälder († 1743) in the same year. The marriage came from among others the master builder Carl Martin Frantz (1712–1755).

Martin Frantz the Elder J. carried out numerous important construction projects in Lower Silesia. The clients were the Catholic and Protestant church institutions as well as citizens and nobles. Since he had a penchant for Nordic classicism, he chose the cruciform floor plan based on the model of the Stockholm Katharinenkirche for his two early works, the Gnadenkirchen in Hirschberg and Landeshut , the construction of which was made possible by the Altranstädter Convention , whereby he designed it by installing it Changed by galleries. Later he adapted his works to the representative Dientzenhofer baroque style influenced by Bohemia , which was spread in Silesia from 1714–1720 with the construction of the Liegnitz Jesuit church by Christoph Dientzenhofer and his son Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer .

Works in Silesia (selection)

• 1698–1708 - Jesuit college in Liegnitz ( Legnica ) based on a design by Johann Georg Knoll , continued and completed by Martin Frantz after his death in 1704.
• 1702 - Parchau Palace , Chocianów Municipality ( Kotzenau )
• 1705–1706 - Castle in Peterswaldau ( Pieszyce )
• 1709–1717 - Mercy Church in Hirschberg ( Jelenia Góra )
• 1709–1717 - Trinity Church in state hat in Silesia ( Kamienna Góra )
• 1709–1710 - Rectory in Landeshut
• 1710–1715 - Baumgarten community center in Hirschberg
• 1712 - Rectory in Bad Warmbrunn ( Cieplice Śląskie-Zdrój )
• 1716–1719 - several crypt chapels at the Gnadenkirchhof in Hirschberg
• 1718–1726 - Gröditzberg Castle in Gröditz ( Grodziec )
• 1720 - Lomnica Castle (Łomnica)
• 1723–1728 - Brauchitsch Castle in Brauchitschdorf
• 1726 - Tower of the Protestant church in Harpersdorf ( Twardocice )
• 1728 - St. Martin's Church in Schmellwitz ( Śmiałowice ): addition of the baroque west tower, the vestibule and the sacristy
• 1728–1730 - House of the Leubuser abbots in Liegnitz
• 1728–1732 - reconstruction of the Kotzenau Palace in Kotzenau ( Chocianów )
• 1729–1740 - Corpus Christi Church in Sprottau ( Szprotawa )
• 1732–1733 - Tower of the town hall in Sprottau
• 1732 - Catholic Peter and Paul Church in Harpersdorf ( Twardocice )
• 1732–1738 - reconstruction of the Catholic Church of the Assumption in Sagan ( Żagań )
• 1734 - Schönwaldau Palace ( Rząśnik )
• 1734 - St. Valentine's Church (Weinbergkirche) in Leubus ( Lubiąż )
• 1735 - Design of the country house and stable in Sagan
• 1735 - Design of the high altar in the Jesuit church in Sagan
• 1736–1738 - Martinskirche in Seitsch ( Siciny )

literature

• Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland. Silesia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X , pp. 60–63, 216, 219, 230, 279, 390, 391, 420, 527, 528, 533, 594, 740, 828, 833f. , 836, 863, 908 and 1197f.
• Günther Grundmann :  Frantz (en), Martin. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 356 ( digitized version ).
• Günther Grundmann: The master builder family Frantz , 1937. General encyclopedia of artists from antiquity to the present , gre. U. Thieme et al. F. Becker, ed. v. H. Vollmer, 36 Vols., 1907-47, Vol. 37 (Monogrammists), 1950, Erg.bd., 1954
• Ludwig Petry and Josef Joachim Menzel : History of Silesia Vol. 2. The Habsburg period 1526–1740. 3rd, unchanged. Ed., 2000, ISBN 3-7995-6342-3 , pp. 185f.
• Stanisław Łoza, Architekci i budowniczowie w Polsce, Warszawa 1954 p. 83.

Web links

Commons : Martin Frantz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Cyfrowy Dolny Śląsk. Słownik Biograficzny Ziemi Jeleniogórskiej. Frantz Martin Młodszy