Michael Spanner

View of the main building of Kloster Grafschaft

Michael Spanner (partly also Spannier ) († May 31, 1742 in Grafschaft Abbey ) was a German master mason and architect of the Baroque era .

Life

There is different information about the origin of Spanners. It is often stated that he came from Saxony . According to information about the construction of Overhagen Castle, he came from Leitha, rule Schleitz. Other authors assume that he was born in Tyrol . This is supported by the fact that, according to entries in the church register of the town of Rüthen, his brother Stephan was a native of Tyrol. The different information may be explained by the fact that he originally came from Tyrol and came to the Duchy of Westphalia through employment in Saxony . He worked in Westphalia for nine years as a journeyman with Nikolaus Wurmstich in Lippstadt . Apparently he became his successor after Wurmstich's death. Spanner later found the center of his life in Erwitte .

On January 16, 1719 he married his first wife Anna Maria nee Spannahn in Erwitte. He had two children with her. Daughter Catharina Elisabeth was born on May 27, 1720 and Joan Conrad, Spanner's first son, on January 22, 1722. His second marriage to his wife Katarina Dorothea, née Gabriel, which he concluded on November 19, 1723, also had two children. Spanner's second son Henning Wilhelm was born on October 3, 1724 and daughter Joanna Margarete Antonetta Elisabeth on May 31, 1732. Originally, Spanner was Protestant. He later converted to Catholicism. Michael Spanner died in the county on May 31, 1742 .

Works

Master builder Michael Spanner was probably able to gain a lot of experience and knowledge during his journeyman work at Nikolaus Wurmstich, which is necessary for the construction of representative objects. However, there is no record to support this. Antfeld Castle and Clarholz von Wurmstich Monastery are similar to later tensioners.

Michael Spanner employed a large number of Rüthen craftsmen. Shortly after 1600 bricklayers and stone masons began to immigrate to Rüthen from southern parts of the country and countries. After the Thirty Years' War , Rüthen developed into a building center, probably due to the green sandstone . Rüthen attracted further builders and artists from many areas in the construction boom after the war. From there they moved to numerous construction projects in the Sauerland and the surrounding area. Michael Spanner's brothers Johannes and Stephan, who acquired Rüthen citizenship in 1725, were among them. In the Sauerland region, various large buildings that are still preserved today were built entirely or partially from Rüthen sandstone from 1650 to 1750. There is evidence that sandstone was used in some buildings by Spanner, such as Overhagen Castle, the Rüthener Town Hall, the Teutonic Order in Mülheim and the Grafschaft monastery.

In the years 1715/17 Spanner built the new church in Römershagen in the Olpe district. From 1718 to 1721 he was busy building Overhagen Castle . In 1724 Abbot Waltmann commissioned him to build new buildings for the Liesborn monastery . The abbot's building was completed in 1735. This is a three-wing construction. It has a representative portal with an outside staircase. Between 1726 and 1730 he was the architect of the old town hall in Rüthen with its extraordinary round staircase. In accordance with the contract, Spanner received 353 Reichstaler and 9 Groschen for the production of the bare shell. In addition, in 1727 he received another 211 Reichstaler and 22 Groschen. The final account of the town hall building from 1727 with Spanner's signature is in the Rüthen town archive. The round flight of steps was not built until 1730.

From 1729 he was busy building the new Grafschaft monastery. In addition to building a monastery in Grafschaft, Spanner took on other orders. In 1734 he built the pension building of the Order Castle of the German Order Coming in Mülheim . On October 1, 1734, he contractually received a total of 332 thalers and 9 groschen. Later, Spanner carried out an order on a stable building. The new Almerfeld mansion from 1738 is also attributed to Spanner . He also rebuilt the Landsberger Hof in Arnsberg after a fire in 1733-1741. The building was given a mansard roof , which was popular at the time for aristocratic buildings , which was replaced by the current roof shape in the 19th century. After the contract with the Erbdrosten Freiherr von Landsberg from 1740 Spanner got 850 Reichstaler for it.

Spanner died on the construction site in Grafschaft in 1742 and was buried in the monastery choir. His brother Johannes Spanner continued the construction.

description	place	Year of construction / time	image
Parish Church of Maria Regina Coeli The church is a simple hall building in Gothic style with a three-sided 3/8 end. The Romanesque tower is said to have originally been a defense tower.	Wenden - Römershagen	Built in 1715/17 and modified in 1730/31
Overhagen Castle After the old building was demolished in 1619, the two-story new building with two mighty corner towers was erected in the Lipper Renaissance style. The facade is characterized by numerous grimacing or portrait-like faces and animal heads. The buildings in the outer bailey were built in 1720 in the baroque style. It can be proven that Nikolaus Wurmstich and Michael Spanner were involved. Further modifications, including a portal projection, date from 1735.	Lippstadt	1718-1721
Liesborn Monastery The new construction of the monastery building was carried out by Michael Spanner from 1735. The baroque abbey is a three-wing building. It has a representative portal with an outside staircase. The north wing was added between 1739 and 1755.	Liesborn	1724-1735
Old Town Hall The plastered building built in the baroque style with gabled middle rituals is characterized by its powerful, two-flight external staircase made of Rüthener sandstone. The impressive round staircase is probably unique in its design in Westphalia.	Rüthen	1726-1730
Monastery county On May 19, 1729, the abbot Ambrosius Bruns laid the foundation stone for the monastery. The abbey was completely rebuilt in the Baroque style between 1729 and 1742. The three-aisled hall church was built between 1738 and 1743. It was considered to be the most beautiful church in the Sauerland region of Cologne. The baroque church was demolished in 1832 with the exception of the tower, which dates back to the Middle Ages.	Schmallenberg County	1729-1942
Landsberger Hof The city palace, newly built after a fire, consists of a main building with a tower attached to the rear, a side wing and ancillary buildings.	Arnsberg	1733-1741
Teutonic Order Mülheim Rentei and a stable building The building of the commandery and the church together form a high-lying, quite extensive building complex. The main building is three-story with a central projectile, corner towers on the sides and a representative flight of stairs. The Rentei is located opposite the rectory in front of the main building.	Warstein - Sichtigvor	1734
House Almerfeld The elongated one-story mansion with stepped gables, central projections and a baroque portal adorned with coat of arms was built in 1738.	Brilon	1738

Others

In Schmallenberg a street was named after Spanner.

literature

• Walter Dalhoff, Franz Kooke: 775 years of the city of Rüthen . Laumann, Lippstadt 1975.
• Eberhard Henneböle : stone carver, carver and painter in Rüthen after the 30 Years War until around 1750. Rüthen as a building center . Lippstadt district, Lippstadt 1974 ( contributions to the local history of the Lippstadt district 5, ZDB -ID 2292881-9 ).
• August Kracht : Castles and palaces in the Sauerland, Siegerland, Hellweg, industrial areas. A manual . Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 3-8035-8011-0 ( Palaces and castles in Westphalia 2).
• Helmut Müller: The cannon convent and Benedictine monastery Liesborn . De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 1987, ISBN 3-11-011002-4 , pp. 33ff. ( Germania Scara new episodes 23: Diocese of Münster ).
• Klaus Püttmann: Westphalian monastery architecture of the baroque period . In: Géza Jászai (Ed.): Monastic Westphalia. Monasteries and monasteries 800–1800 . 5th improved edition. Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster 1982, ISBN 3-88789-054-X , pp. 485–498.
• Wilhelm Schneider: The baroque abbey building in Liesborn, its client and its builder . In: An Ems and Lippe , 1988, ZDB -ID 984424-7 , pp. 99-102.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Adolf Ludorff: The architectural and art monuments of the Meschede district. Münster 1908, p. 35.
2. ↑ The Overhagic building industry and related contracts concerning the outer buildings, wall, chapel, etc. a. Herringhausen archive
3. ↑ Eberhard Henneböle: master builder, stone carver, carver and painter in Rüthen after the 30 Years War until around 1750: Rüthen as a building center . Soest 1974, p. 86.
4. ^ Theodor Rensing: master builder next to and around Schlaun in the dioceses of Münster, Paderborn and Hildesheim . In: Elector Clemens August. Sovereign and patron of the 18th century . Cologne 1961, p. 285.
5. ↑ Inga Erika Kleinknecht: The baroque monastery garden in the garden architecture of the 18th century using the example of the Westphalian Premonstratensian monastery Clarholz - the master builder Nikolaus Wurmstich as an experienced craftsman . Dissertation, University of Cologne, 1999, p. 48.
6. ↑ Eberhard Henneböle : master builder, stone carver, carver and painter in Rüthen after the 30 Years War until around 1750: Rüthen as a building center . Soest 1974, p. 17.
7. ↑ The Overhagic building industry and related contracts concerning the outer buildings, wall, chapel, etc. a. Herringhausen archive
8. ^ Heiko KL Schulze: Monasteries and monasteries in Westphalia. History, building history and description. A documentation. In: Géza Jászai (Ed.): Monastic Westphalia. Monasteries and monasteries 800–1800 . Münster 1982, p. 378.
9. ↑ Helmut Müller: Germania Sacara, The Kanonissenstift and Benedictine Liesborn, The Diocese of Münster . De Gruyter, 1987, p. 33
10. ↑ Jutta Brüdern, Franz Mühlen: The Sauerland: Land on Ruhr and Lenne. Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1987, p. 66.
11. ↑ Rüthen.de ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
12. ↑ Eberhard Henneböle: master builder, stone carver, carver and painter in Rüthen after the 30 Years War until around 1750: Rüthen as a building center . Soest 1974, p. 88.
13. ↑ Brief history of the county monastery
14. ^ August Kracht: Castles and palaces in the Sauerland. Siegerland, Hellweg, industrial area. Flechsig Verlag, 1992, p. 181
15. ^ To Almerfeld: Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments: Westphalia . 1964, p. 7.
16. ^ Thomas Spohn: On the history of the building and use of the Landsberger Hof in Arnsberg . In: Heimatblätter , 23/2002, pp. 12 f., 25.
17. ↑ Monumenta Monasterii Grafschaftensis. Memories from the history of the county monastery. Translation from Latin by Manfred Wolf. Ed .: Spar- und Autovermietung Schmallenberg, p. 185.
18. ^ Georg Dehio , Dorothea Kluge, Wilfried Hansmann , Ernst Gall : North Rhine-Westphalia . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . tape 2 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1969, OCLC 272521926 , p. 493 .