Christoph Dientzenhofer ( cs, Kryštof Dientzenhofer) (born 7 July 1655 in St. Margarethen near
Brannenburg,
Landkreis Rosenheim - 20 June 1722 in
Prague
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, retrieved 23 September 2012 ''(in German)'' was a prominent Bavarian architect of South-
German
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Austria
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Bohemia
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Baroque
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. He was a member of the famous
Dientzenhofer family of architects, and the father of
Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer
Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer ( cs, Kilián Ignác Dientzenhofer) (1 September 1689, Prague – 18 December 1751) was a Bohemian architect of the Baroque era. He was the fifth son of the German architect Christoph Dientzenhofer and the Bohemian-German ...
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Among his works are the Church of St. Nicholas (1703–11, later completed by his son) and the
Brevnov Monastery (1708–21) in
Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...
, church of St. Klara in
Eger (Cheb) (1708–11).
Some of his works are difficult to identify, due to the lack of documentation.
See also
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Baroque architecture in Central Europe
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Czech Baroque architecture
Czech Baroque architecture refers to the architectural period of the 17th and 18th century in Bohemia, Moravia and Czech Silesia, which comprised the Crown of Bohemia and today constitute the Czech Republic.
The Baroque style also changed the cha ...
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Pension DientzenhoferHome of Christoph, birthplace of Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer
1655 births
1722 deaths
Austrian Baroque architects
Czech Baroque architects
German Baroque architects
German Bohemian people
People from Rosenheim (district)
Architects from Prague
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