!!!Puchspaum auch Puchsbaum, Hanns

b. before 1390, 
d. after 1454, late Gothic architect. Around 1418 worked for the Ulm 
stonemason's lodge, documented in Vienna between 1432 and 1454; 1440 
(according to other records not until 1446) was master builder at St. 
Stephen´s Cathedral in Vienna, directed there the construction 
of the vestibule of the "Singertor" (1440-1445), the vaulting of the 
nave (1446) and the construction of the foundations of the north tower 
which he had also planned (1450); constructed the choir of the parish 
church in Steyr (1443) and carried out the alterations at the 
"Spinnerin am Kreuz" monument in Vienna (1451/52). His 70 drawings 
(Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna) with plans for the West tower of Ulm 
Minster, Steyr, St. Stephen´s Cathederal, Vienna Town Hall and 
the Zapolya chapel in Spišsky Štvrtok, Slovakia (then 
Donnersmarkt) are considered the most important surviving drawings by 
a medieval architect.

!Literature
B. Grimschitz, H. P., 1947; H. Koepf, Die got. 
Planrisse der Wr. Sammlungen, 1969.



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