!!!Ospel, Anton Johann

b. Kloesterle am Arlberg (Vorarlberg), June 2, 1677, 
d. Vienna, April 3, 1756, architect and military engineer. 1711-1721 
Court architect for the Princes of Liechtenstein, amongst other things 
built the castles in Feldsberg (Valtice, Czech Republic) and 
Wilfersdorf (Lower Austria); 1722 made ordnance supervisor and captain 
of the city of Vienna. Established the Wiener Buergerliches Zeughaus 
Am Hof (1731/32) and further palaces and residences in Vienna.

!Literature
A. Wilhelm, Der Vbg. Architekt A. J. O. 
(1677-1756), doctoral thesis, Innsbruck 1966.



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