Peter Bishop

Peter Bischof (* around 1430 in Gau-Algesheim ; † after 1480) was a German builder and sculptor in Neuhausen and Strasbourg .

Life

Peter Bischof, who mostly called himself Peter von Algesheim after the hometown of his ancestors, is closely related to the stonemason orders and stonemason brotherhoods of Regensburg (1449) and Speyer (1464). In 1459 Peter Algesheim vowed to "... keep the book", ie the rules of the Regensburg order. This is the earliest source evidence for Master Peter Bischof. Peter Bishop probably chose Strasbourg as his place of study, because the main hut in Strasbourg was directly subordinate to southern and western Germany as far as the Moselle and central Germany. Jodokus Dotzinger from Worms seems to have influenced the fact that his pupil and later colleague received the construction management for the St. Cyriakus Church in Neuhausen around 1460. On April 9, 1464, Peter Bischof signed the Speyr Steinmetzordnung in fourth place after Jost Dotzinger as "Master Peter von Algesheim, Master of Nühüsen". In 1468 he is attested as the builder of St. Cyriakus. In 1473 Peter Bischof stayed again in Strasbourg and is referred to as "instead of murer" of the city of Strasbourg. A sign in the seal of Peter von Algesheim, which is attached to the document from 1473, consists of an acute angle with a cross. At another point, the Bock tomb from the 1480s in the St. Catherine's Chapel of the Strasbourg Cathedral , the same symbol appears again as a stonemason's mark. The same stonemason's mark can also be found on a St. Grave in the monastery church of St. Peter and Paul zu Neuweiler / Alsace ( Neuwiller-lès-Saverne ), it is provided with the year 1478.

literature

• Marga Dörr: Peter Bishop von Algesheim, a builder and sculptor of the 15th century . In: 600 Years of the City of Gau-Algesheim , 1955, 94–97; Gau-Algesheim. Historical reading book, 1999, pp. 139–142

Web links

• Biographical website about Peter Bischof