Matthias Seybold

High altar, created in 1749 for Eichstätt Cathedral

The baroque rectory in Cronheim

Matthias Seybold (* 1696 in Wernfels ; † 1765 ) was a German architect and prince-bishop's building officer as well as Eichstätt court sculptor .

Seybold was Eichstätt court sculptor from 1726 and prince-bishop building inspector of the diocese of Eichstätt from 1747 . Little is known about his life and work. Seybold's masterpiece was the baroque baldachin high altar of Eichstätt Cathedral , which he created in 1749 from Salzburg marble . This was mined there in 1891 and ascension into the Deggendorfer Parish Church of the translocated where it still stands today.

Seybold was also active as an architect, as the construction of the rectory in Cronheim shows. In 1748 Seybold succeeded in convincing Eichstätter Bishop Johann Anton II von Freyberg of his plans to rebuild the mansion of the medieval allodium, which was set on fire in 1632 and since then in ruins . The confused ownership structure of this building and the changing denominations in the village prevented extensive maintenance work and, after 1632, reconstruction work on the former manor house for centuries. In an ingenious way, Seybold succeeded in converting the medieval building into the then contemporary late Baroque style, incorporating large parts of the foundation walls of the previous building. The building was completed and inaugurated in 1749. It is thanks to Seybold that large parts of the medieval predecessor building have been preserved to this day. In his honor, his initials and the year of the renovation, 1749, were recently placed on the door panel of the rectory, which was renovated in 2019.

Works

• 1732–1734 Baroque modification of the monastery church of St. John the Baptist in Rebdorf monastery
• 1734: Pulpit of Rebdorf Monastery, moved to Beatae Mariae Virginis Großlellenfeld church in 1806 (presumed)
• 1745: Willibald's Altar, Eichstätt Cathedral
• 1746: Expansion of the Catholic parish church of St. Agidius in Röckenhofen
• 1748: Church tower of the Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary in Rauenzell (presumed)
• 1749: High altar in Eichstätt Cathedral (today in the parish church of the Assumption of Mary in Deggendorf )
• 1749: Baroque renovation of the Cronheim rectory
• around 1765 high altar of the Church of St. Mauritius (Bergheim, Upper Bavaria) (presumed)
• Rococo style pulpit in the parish church of the Assumption of Mary Berching
• Epitaph adorned with coat of arms for the Tittinger nurse Johann Baptist Marquard Freiherr von Ulm zu Erbach, who died in 1745, in the Catholic Church of St. Michael in Titting (presumed)
• Drafts and figures of high altar and front side altars in the Guardian Angel Church in Eichstätt
• 1760: High altar and figures in the Catholic parish church of the Assumption in Kipfenberg

literature

• Ferdinand von Werden, Ludwig Brandl, Claudia Grund: Diaries for the restoration of the cathedral at Eichstätt 1938–1945. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ferdinand von Werden, Ludwig Brandl, Claudia Grund: Diaries for the restoration of the cathedral at Eichstätt 1938–1945. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, footnote p. 176
2. ↑ Dr. theol. Karl Ried: Cronheim. A former aristocratic residence. Eichstaett 1935.