Leonhard Dientzenhofer was
a German builder and architect from the well known Dientzenhofer

Dientzenhofer

Dientzenhofer is the name of a family of German architects, who were among the leading builders in Bohemian and German Baroque.- architects :...

 family of architect.

Family

Leonhard was the seventh child of Georg Dientzenhofer and Anna Thanner. His four
brothers Georg, Wolfgang, Christoph and Johann

Johann Dientzenhofer

Johann Dientzenhofer was a builder and architect during the Baroque period in Germany.Johann was born in St. Margarethen near Rosenheim, Bavaria, a member of the famous Dientzenhofer family of German architects, who were among the leading builders in the Bohemian and German Baroque which included...

 were also well known
architects/builders. On January 30, 1685 in Waldsassen

Waldsassen

Waldsassen is a town in the district of Tirschenreuth bordering the Czech Republic in the Upper Palatinate, Bavaria.As of June 2005, Waldsassen had a population of 7,483....

, 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 (July 6, 1699), he married in Bamberg Anna Margaretha Sünder from Staffelstein.
They had two daughters.

Works

• 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
  Banz Abbey
  Banz Abbey , now known as Banz Castle , is a former Benedictine monastery, since 1978 a part of the town of Bad Staffelstein north of Bamberg, Bavaria, southern Germany.-History:...
  
  : (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
  Kulmbach
  Kulmbach is the capital of the district of Kulmbach in Bavaria in Germany. The town is famous for Plassenburg Castle, which houses the largest tin soldier museum in the world, and for its famous sausages, or Bratwürste.-Location:...
  
  : Langheimer Amtshof (1691)
• Kloster Langheim: overall plan (beginning 1690)
• Tambach
  Weitramsdorf
  Weitramsdorf is a municipality in the district of Coburg in Bavaria in Germany. It consists of the following villages: Weitramsdorf, Gersbach, Schlettach, Altenhof, Hergramsdorf, Tambach, Neundorf, Weidach and Weidach-Vogelherd....
  
  : Schloss Tambach (1694-1700)
• Schöntal im Jagsttal: Cloister building and church (1694-1707)
• Trautmannshofen
  Lauterhofen
  Lauterhofen is a municipality in the district of Neumarkt in Bavaria in Germany....
  
  : Plan for the pilgrimage church Mariä Namen (construction

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

Literature

• Milada Vilímková, Johannes Brucker: Dientzenhofer. Eine bayerische Baumeisterfamilie in

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

• Hans Zimmer: Die Dientzenhofer. Ein bayerisches Baumeistergeschlecht in der Zeit des

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

• Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
  Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
  Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie is one of the most important and most comprehensive biographical reference works in the German language....
  
  , Bd. 3, S. 651
• Reclams Kunstführer Bayern, ISBN 3-15-008055-X

External links

• Initials of Leonhard Dientzenhofer on Haus zum Güldenen Stern, Bamberg
• http://www.mgl-obermaingeschichte.de/barock/SeitenBanz/Dientzenhofer.htm