Leonhard Dientzenhofer

Leonhard Dientzenhofer (also: "Johann Leonhard Dientzenhofer"; * 20. February 1660 inSt. Margarethen (Bavaria), county of Rosenheim; † 26. November 1707 in Bamberg) wasa German builder and architect from the well known Dientzenhofer family of architect.

Family

Leonhard was the seventh child of Georg Dientzenhofer and Anna Thanner. His fourbrothers Georg, Wolfgang, Christoph and Johann were also well knownarchitects/builders. On January 30, 1685 in Waldsassen, he married Maria Anna Hager, a sister of thewife of his brother Georg. They had three sons and four daughters. Soon after the death of hisMaria (July 6, 1699), he married in Bamberg Anna Margaretha Sünder from Staffelstein.They had two daughters.

Works

thumb|Facade of the monastery church St. Michael inBamberg
* Bamberg
** work on the Bishops Residence (1697-1702)
** Kloster Michelsberg: Kloster Building and Facade of the monastery church St. Michael(1696-1702)
** Curia Sancti Lamperti ("Domgasse 8")
** Reconstruction of the Carmelite monastery and church (1692-1707)
* Kloster Banz: (brother Johann also worked on Banz) (1695-1704)
* Kloster Ebrach: (1686)
* Gaibach
** Remodel of the castle (1694-1704)
** Heilig-Kreuz-Kapelle (1697-1698)
* Schloss Greifenstein: remodel and “Barockisation” (1691-1693)
* Hollfeld: Salvatorkirche (1704)
* Kulmbach: Langheimer Amtshof (1691)
* Kloster Langheim: overall plan (beginning 1690)
* Tambach: Schloss Tambach (1694-1700)
* Schöntal im Jagsttal: Cloister building and church (1694-1707)
* Trautmannshofen: Plan for the pilgrimage church Mariä Namen ("constructionGeorg Dientzenhofer, after the death of Wolfgang Dientzenhofer") (1686)

Literature

* Milada Vilímková, Johannes Brucker: "Dientzenhofer. Eine bayerische Baumeisterfamilie inder Barockzeit". Rosenheimer Verlagshaus, 1989, ISBN 3-475-52610-7
* Hans Zimmer: "Die Dientzenhofer. Ein bayerisches Baumeistergeschlecht in der Zeit desBarock". Rosenheim 1976, ISBN 3-475-52149-0
* Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Bd. 3, S. 651
* Reclams Kunstführer "Bayern", ISBN 3-15-008055-X

External links

* [http://www.bamberga.de/sortes_meae.htm Initials of Leonhard Dientzenhofer on Hauszum Güldenen Stern, Bamberg]
* http://www.mgl-obermaingeschichte.de/barock/SeitenBanz/Dientzenhofer.htm