!!!Vorarlberger Schule

Vorarlberg School (Vorarlberger Schule), name given to a group of 
Baroque master builders. It developed from the guild of master 
builders in Au in the Bregenzerwald Mountain Region which was founded 
by M. Beer in 1657. The representatives of the Vorarlberg School were 
active in the south of Germany and in Switzerland until the end of the 
18%%sup th/%  century. Its most important representatives came 
from the  Beer,  Moosbrugger and  Thumbfamilies. The Vorarlberg School 
created a unique type of church building, also referred to as 
Vorarlberger Muensterschema (Vorarlberg minster plan), spacious hall 
churches built over a closed ground plan with barrel-vaulted nave and 
aisles. The collegiate church in Obermarchtal (in Swabia, by M. Thumb, 
started in 1686) was the first church designed and completed according 
to these principles. The buildings of the Vorarlberg School are mainly 
monasteries which fit perfectly into the landscape; however, all of 
them are located outside the contemporary Austrian borders. The only 
significant example of the Vorarlberg School in Austria, the 
collegiate church of Mehrerau, was pulled down in 1808.

!Literature
Vorarlberger Barockbaumeister, exhibition catalogue, 
Bregenz 1990.


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