Leonhard Dientzenhofer

Leonhard Dientzenhofer (also: Johann Leonhard Dientzenhofer; 20 February 1660 – 26 November 1707) was a German builder and architect from the well known Dientzenhofer family of architects.

Family

Leonhard was born in St. Margarethen (Bavaria), District of Rosenheim, the seventh child of Georg Dientzenhofer and Anna Thanner. His four brothers, Georg, Wolfgang, Christoph and Johann, were also well-known architects/builders. On 30 January 1685 in Waldsassen, he married Maria Anna Hager, a sister of the wife of his brother Georg. They had three sons and four daughters. Soon after the death of his Maria (6 July 1699), he married in Bamberg Anna Margaretha Sünder from Staffelstein. They had two daughters.

Leonhard died, aged 47, in Bamberg. His work on Banz Abbey was taken over by his brother Johann.

Works

Facade of the monastery church St. Michael in Bamberg
Schloss Tambach

(1696–1702)

Georg Dientzenhofer, after the death of Wolfgang Dientzenhofer) (1686)

Literature

der Barockzeit. Rosenheimer Verlagshaus, 1989, ISBN 3-475-52610-7

Barock. Rosenheim 1976, ISBN 3-475-52149-0

External links

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