Master Arnold

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Master Arnold († 1308 ) was Cologne's second master builder after Master Gerhard . In 1271 he was named as the new cathedral master craftsman when he acquired the house "Drachenfels" at 25 Trankgasse at the same time . During his time the first altars could be installed in the choir chapels. The first window glazing was used at the end of the 13th century . For a time Master Arnold was attributed the large facade plan F of the cathedral due to stylistic considerations . This has Johann Josef Böker rejected in an extensive investigation and dated planning in the year 1370th

Arnold had two sons from his first marriage, Johannes and Rutger . Both continued his work and became his successors. The explanations of the tracery planned by Master Arnold reveal that he also learned in France.

Cathedral builder Arnold Wolff has put up for discussion whether there is a portrait of the builder in the cathedral. A head, somewhat hidden in the foliage of a chapel wreath on a column in the chapel wreath, shows a roughly life-size portrait. The face is young, smartly designed with long and wavy hair hanging down. Arnold "could have presented himself here with the overwhelming feeling of being allowed to continue building one of the greatest cathedrals in Christendom, but in the humility of the Christian who looks at the altar."

Master Arnold in youth literature

In the series “Tatort Geschichte”, Fabian Lenk has written a guessing thriller entitled “ Curse over the Cathedral ”: The focus of this thriller is on Master Arnold and his children Johannes and Klara: Both children are very interested in the progress of construction on Cologne Cathedral; when a stonemason finds bleeding stones with the inscription "Satan": Clare and Johannes begin to act as detectives and discover Arnold's circle next to the stones, which Johannes quickly puts in his pocket. Since many workers suspect a curse over the construction site, they suspect the flying trader Winrich because of his hump. The children can quickly dispel the suspicion. During the further investigations of the two children, they discover a love letter to their mother and a fake key from their father. When a sawed-off scaffolding collapses in another attack, the children find Arnold's jacket together with Winrich and all three fear that someone is trying to harm their father. Since a blacksmith suspects Arnold's face in the suspect's face, Arnold is relieved of his office: When asked who wants to harm the cathedral builder, Arnold finds out about his two brothers Roland and Lambert, with whom he built the cathedral in Reims and with whom he got into a heated argument. The suspicion of Lambert is quickly confirmed because Roland can neither read nor write. After an attack on the three holy kings with the inscription "Satan" was carried out and the building plan of the cathedral builder was discovered, the cathedral builder was thrown into the dungeon. At home, the children discover the original of the building plan and a mistake that they discovered in the found copy of the plan. So Arnold is released and appointed master builder again. Since the family fears another attack, Arnold and the children go to the cathedral, whereupon a fire breaks out in the cathedral. Thanks to Arnold and his children, the perpetrator Lambert can be arrested quickly.

See also

Portal: Cologne Cathedral  - Overview of Wikipedia content on the subject of Cologne Cathedral

literature

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Remarks

  1. ^ Herbert Rode:  Gerhardus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 272 ​​( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Herbert Rode, Meister Arnold already 1271 Cologne cathedral builder , in: Kölner Domblatt 21/22, 1963, p. 164; Older information such as 1295 to 1301 (Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt:  Arnold von Köln . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 582.) or from 1280 (Max Hasak, Der Dom zu Köln , 1911, p. 79) are thus obsolete
  3. ^ Paul Clemen, Der Dom zu Köln , 1938, p. 56.
  4. ^ Marc Steinmann: The west facade of the Cologne Cathedral. The medieval facade plan F (research on Cologne Cathedral 1), Cologne, Verlag Kölner Dom, 2004. ISBN 978-3-922442-50-9 .
  5. ^ Johann Josef Böker: Michael von Savoyen and the facade of the Cologne Cathedral, Cologne 2018, as well as Johann Josef Böker: Architektur der Gotik. The Rhineland. An inventory catalog of medieval architectural drawings. Müry & Salzmann, Salzburg, 2013, No. 129. ISBN 978-3-99014-064-2 .
  6. ^ Max Hasak: The Cologne Cathedral , Berlin 1911, p. 83.
  7. ^ Arnold Wolff: Chronology of the first construction period of the Cologne Cathedral 1248-1277 , Diss. Cologne 1968 p. 229
personal data
SURNAME Master Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German craftsman, second Cologne cathedral master builder
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1308