Wolfgang Dientzenhofer

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Wolfgang Dientzenhofer (born March 16, 1648 in Oberulpoint, now Litzldorf near Bad Feilnbach , † May 18, 1706 in Amberg ) was a German builder of the Baroque era .

Origin and family

Wolfgang belonged to the Upper Bavarian master builder family of the Dientzenhofer . He was born as the third child of Georg Dientzenhofer and Barbara, geb. Thanner was born in Oberulpoint. In 1654 the family moved to the Gugghof above St. Margarethen .

Little is known about his education and youth. It is believed that he learned to read, write and arithmetic at the Flintsbach School, then completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and moved to Prague via Passau after 1665. Like his brothers Georg , Christoph , Leonhard and Johann, it is recorded in Prague for 1678 - on the occasion of the wedding of his sister Anna to Wolfgang Leuthner, a relative of the builder Abraham Leuthner .

Builder in Bohemia

Probably as early as 1677 Wolfgang Dientzenhofer worked as foreman for the Prague builder Martin Reiner on the construction of the Franciscan monastery in Arnau, Eastern Bohemia. In any case, he applied for Arnau citizenship in 1679, for which he had to submit a birth certificate from the Aibling Care Court. After Reiner's death in 1680, with a contract dated March 11, 1681 - in which he was referred to as a master mason - he was commissioned to complete the Franciscan monastery according to the previous plans. This order was probably his first independent construction. In 1683 he lived again in Prague as a citizen of the Lesser Town . Two years later he was probably back in Arnau, as it is assumed that the Franciscan monastery chapel, which was built from 1685 according to Reiner's plans, was built under his construction management.

Back in Bavaria

Ensdorf monastery church
Weißenohe Monastery

In 1689, the year his eldest brother Georg died, Wolfgang Dientzenhofer appeared in Amberg, Upper Palatinate , where he lived in the monastery district and worked as a construction manager for renovation work at the Jesuit college. As a successor to Georg, he took over the construction management for the pilgrimage church of Mariä Namen in Trautmannshofen , which was completed in 1691. His first clients for independent buildings in the Upper Palatinate were the Benedictines ( Michelfeld and Ensdorf Monasteries ) and the Premonstratensians ( Speinshart ), as well as the Prince-Bishop of Bamberg for the Weißenohe monastery and church .

Wolfgang Dientzenhofer was not only active as a builder, but also as a building contractor. In addition to local people, he also employed craftsmen from his Upper Bavarian homeland. Some of his works were created in collaboration with the brothers Cosmas Damian and Egid Quirin Asam .

Although his works are well documented in the archives, they have received little attention from art historians. His biography has also only been known for a few decades.

Personal

After receiving the multi-year contract for the construction of the Salesian convent and church , in 1693 he gave up his citizenship in Prague and tried to get Amberg citizenship, which he was only granted on June 22, 1695. A few weeks later he bought a house for himself and his family in Klostergasse (today: Deutsche Schulgasse 11).

In the same year he was appointed court architect by the electoral government in Amberg, which is why he is also known as the "Amberger Dientzenhofer". As a court architect, he made several trips.

Wolfgang's wife Anna Isabella, whose maiden name is unknown, gave birth to eight children. After Wolfgang's death, which she survived by 34 years, she lived with her seven underage children in the town clerk's house.

Works

Sacred buildings

Pilgrimage Church of Maria Hilf, Amberg
Ebermannsdorf Castle with Castle Church

Secular buildings

  • On the mountain
    • Rentamt Amberg , Regierungsstrasse 12
    • Residential building, Deutsche Schulgasse 11

Incorrectly attributed works

Some of the works attributed to him so far come from the Aiblingen city architect Wolfgang Dinzenhofer (1678–1747), e. B.

literature

  • Milada Vilímková, Johannes Brucker: Dientzenhofer. A Bavarian master builder family in the baroque era . Rosenheimer, Rosenheim 1989, ISBN 3-475-52610-7 .
  • Hans Zimmer: The Dientzenhofer. A family of Bavarian builders in the Baroque era. Rosenheim 1976, ISBN 3-475-52149-0 .
  • Alexander von Reitzenstein : Reclam's art guide Germany. Vol. 1. Bavaria. Stuttgart 1956, ISBN 3-15-008055-X .
  • Georg Dehio , Ernst Götz (Hrsg.): Handbook of German art monuments . Bavaria. Vol. 4. Munich and Upper Bavaria. Munich / Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-422-03010-7 .

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Dientzenhofer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Milada Vilímková, Johannes Brucker: Dientzenhofer. A Bavarian master builder family in the baroque era , p. 73. (biography)
  2. ^ Contradictory information in the sources: According to Dehio , Bayern IV: München und Oberbayern, Darmstadt 1990, p. 65, the design for the Auer St. Martins Church is attributed to Wolfgang Dienzenhofer.
personal data
SURNAME Dientzenhofer, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dienzenhofer, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German builder of the baroque
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1648
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberulpoint, now Litzldorf near Bad Feilnbach
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1706
Place of death On the mountain