Elias Holl (28 February 1573 in

Augsburg Augsburg (; bar , Augschburg , links=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German , label=Swabian German, , ) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, around west of Bavarian capital Munich. It is a university town and regional seat of the ' ...

– 6 January 1646 in Augsburg) was the most important

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of late

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Life

Elias Holl was born in Augsburg, Werbhausgasse 2. He was descended from a master-builder-Family. His father Hans Holl (1512-1594) taught him. In 1596 he passed the exam, the Meisterprüfung. After an abidance in

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and

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in the years 1600/1601 – he visited

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and

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– in 1602 he became ''Werkmeister'' of Augsburg. In 1629 he lost his office as ''Stadtbaumeister'' because he was a

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. Since then he was only called ''Stadtgeometer''. He was dismissed from office in 1631. He is buried in the Augsburg Protestant Cemetery.

Building

He was the architect and constructor of Augsburg's landmark: the

Augsburg Town Hall The Town Hall of Augsburg (German: ''Augsburger Rathaus'') is the administrative centre of Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany, and one of the most significant secular buildings of the Renaissance style north of the Alps. It was designed and built by Elias ...

. More buildings in Augsburg are

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(1602-1607), Wertachbrucker Tor (1605) Stadtmetzg (1609), St.-Anna-Gymnasium (1613), addition of the

Perlachturm The 70-metre-tall Perlachturm is a belltower in front of the church of St. Peter am Perlach in the central district of Augsburg, Germany. It originated as a watchtower in the 10th century. The existing Renaissance structure was built in the 161 ...

(1614-1616) and the

Heilig-Geist-Spital The Heilig-Geist-Spital (English: Holy Spirit Hospital) in Nuremberg was the largest hospital in the former Free Imperial City of Nuremberg. It was used as a hospital and nursing home. Its chapel was also the depository of the Imperial Regalia, ...

(1626-1631) (it contains the

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)

References

External links

Elias Holl on augsburg.de
{{DEFAULTSORT:Holl, Elias People from Augsburg 1573 births 1646 deaths 16th-century German architects 17th-century German architects Bavarian architects