Valerian Brenner

Valerian Brenner (born March 26, 1652 in Au in the Bregenzerwald , † April 27, 1715 in Günzburg ) was a master builder of the Vorarlberg Baroque .

Resident in Günzburg since 1678 , Brenner worked as a builder for the Fugger family , the Augsburg Cathedral Chapter and other clergy and secular lords in East Swabia. One of his first works - he was only 28 years old - was the manufacture of the tower octagon for the parish church of St. Martin in Mertingen .

St. Jakob and Lorenz in Biberbach

Brenner is considered a solid and dignified builder of the second row, but in this he occupies an outstanding position. He never tired of building or renovating churches and castles, parsonages and offices, breweries and monastery buildings according to the wishes of his undemanding, thrifty and practical builders.

Major works

• Shooting , pilgrimage church of the birth of the Virgin Mary (1682–1686)
• Biberbach , pilgrimage church of St. Jakobus and St. Laurentius and Holy Cross (1684–1694)
• Rechberg , Hohenrechberg pilgrimage church (1686–1688)
• Kleinkötz , parish church (1692–1711)
• Donauwörth , convent building of the former Benedictine monastery, south and east wing (1696–1700)
• Auerbach , St. Nikolaus Church (1698–1735)
• Neuburg an der Donau , St. Ursula Monastery Church (1699–1701)
• Günzburg, reconstruction of the former castle (1703)
• Town hall in Burgau (1709–1711)
• Obermedlingen , monastery church of the Assumption of Mary (1709–1717)