Johann Georg Specht

Johann Georg Specht (* December 20 1721 in Lindenberg im Allgäu, † December 30, 1803 ) was the architect of the late baroque and belonged to the so-called Vorarlberg school or the masters of the Vorarlberg Münster scheme.

Life

He learned his craft at the Vorarlberg architect Peter Thumb (see Sanctuary Birnau ).

Specht planned and built in the Allgäu and in Upper Swabia, a large number of buildings. This includes water works, bridges, mills, residential and farm buildings as well as castles and churches.

His major work he found in 1771 in the Wiblinger monastery church of St. Martin, which he planned though and began but could not finish. The woodpecker criticizing Bavarian painter and architect of Januarius Zick had acquired in 1788 and reached that he himself entrusted with the continued construction and Specht was discharged the trust of the client.

Honors

In his native town of Lindenberg im Allgäu, the builder Woodpecker street was named after him.

Works

• Buildings woodpecker

Ratzenried Castle, community Argenbuehl

Monastery Löwental, Friedrichshafen

Castle Rimpach

Parish Eglofs

Castle Small Laupheim

Parish Wiggensbach

Monastery church Wiblingen

Monastery church Wiblingen Interior

Parish hamlet

Parish hamlet, Interior

Schloss Neutrauchburg at Isny

Parish Scheidegg