- Johann Georg Specht
Johann Georg Specht (1720-1803) was born in
Lindenberg im Allgäu . He was acivil engineer andarchitect in the south ofGermany .Johann Georg Specht trained as a civil engineer with
Peter Thumb inVorarlberg .Specht planned and had a vast number of edifices and other
construction s built inUpper Swabia and theAllgäu , amongst which are as varied constructions aswater works ,bridges , mills,residential buildings , industrialbuildings and evencastles andchurch es.His main and most famous project was the
monastery church St. Martin atWiblingen Abbey in 1771. He planned and designed the church but was not allowed to execute the building works when theBavaria n painter and civil engineerJanuarius Zick was contracted in 1778 to complete the building works after Specht had been dismissed in December 1777.Works
* 1748-1750: industrial building at castle
Ratzenried
* 1751:parish church inEglofs
* 1753: parish church inBaisingen nearNagold
* 1754: castleAmtzell
* 1855-1756: hunting castle andchapel St Leonard inRimpach nearLeutkirch
* 1765: extension of the parish church in Lindenberg/Allgäu
* 1771: parish church inWiggensbach near Kempten/Allgäu
* 1771-1778: church atWiblingen Abbey
* 1776-1779: castle Kleinlaupheim inLaupheim
* 1778: mail coach station in Kempten/Allgäu
* 1782: industrial buildings atIrsee Monastery
* 1786-1789: castleNeutrauchberg nearIsny
* 1792: parish church inScheidegg near Lindenberg im AllgäuHonour
A street in Lindenberg im Allgäu is has been named "Baumeister-Specht-Strasse".
Further reading
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* citation| last = Weis| first = Markus| authorlink = | title = Johann Georg Specht 1721-1803. Spätbarocker Baumeister aus dem Westallgäu| journal = Lebensbilder aus dem Bayerischen Schwaben | volume = 16 | pages = | date = 2004 | publisher = Konrad | location = Weißenhorn
isbn = 3-8743-7478-5External links
* [http://home.vrweb.de/~seyfert/bauwerke/wiblingen/wiblingen.htm German webpage about the monastery in Wiblingen]
* [http://www.altes-schloss-amtzell.de/ German webpage about Specht's work in Amtzell]
* [http://www.derwestallgaeuer.de/news.php?id=417 Newspaper article about Johann Georg Specht (in German)]
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