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Peter Parler

Peter Parler, ( (1330(?), Schwäbisch Gmünd

Schwäbisch Gmünd

Schw?bisch Gm?nd is a town in the eastern part of the Germany state of Baden-W?rttemberg. With a population of around 62,000, the town is the second largest in the Ostalbkreis and the whole region of W?rttemberg after Aalen....
– July 13, 1399, Prague

Prague

Prague is the Capital and World's largest cities of the Czech Republic. Its official name is Hlavn? mesto Praha, meaning Prague, the Capital City....
) was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
architect, best-known for building Saint Vitus Cathedral and Charles Bridge

Charles Bridge

Charles Bridge is a famous historical bridge that crosses the Vltava river in Prague, Czech Republic. Absolute Location: . Its construction started in 1357 under the auspices of King Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and finished in the beginning of 15th century....
in Prague

Prague

Prague is the Capital and World's largest cities of the Czech Republic. Its official name is Hlavn? mesto Praha, meaning Prague, the Capital City....
, where he lived from about 1356.

His father, master builder Heinrich Parler (the name deriving from "parlerius", speaker and head of the masons), had moved to Schwäbisch Gmünd

Schwäbisch Gmünd

Cologne

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Peter Parler, ( (1330(?), Schwäbisch Gmünd

Schwäbisch Gmünd

Prague

Prague is the Capital and World's largest cities of the Czech Republic. Its official name is Hlavn? mesto Praha, meaning Prague, the Capital City....
) was a German

Germany

Charles Bridge

Prague

Schwäbisch Gmünd

Cologne

Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants....
, to lead the reconstruction works of the Holy Cross parish church. Members of the large Parler family worked in construction works around all of Europe.

Peter Parler became the master mason of Saint Vitus Cathedral in 1352, after the death of its original architect, Matthias of Arras

Matthias of Arras

Matthias of Arras was a France architect, famed for his work on St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague.Little is known about his early life. In 1344 he was summoned to Prague from the papal court of Avignon by Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor to lead works on the newly founded Saint Vitus Cathedral....
. Apart from the cathedral, he was the main designer of the New Town of Prague

New Town, Prague

The New Town is a quarter in the city of Prague in the Czech Republic. New Town is the youngest and largest of the five independent towns that today comprise the historic center of modern Prague....
and built Charles Bridge

Charles Bridge

Prague Castle

Prague Castle is a castle in Prague where the Czech Republic kings, Holy Roman Empire Emperors and List of presidents of the Czech Republic of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic have had their offices....
, Parler built the All Saints' Chapel. After the fire of 1541 it was redecorated in the Baroque style.

He was apparently the architect of the Church of Our Lady (Frauenkirche

Nuremberg Frauenkirche

The Frauenkirche, in English, "Church of Our Lady", is one of the most important churches in Nuremberg. It is located in the eastern side of the main market....
) built in the market square of Nuremberg

Nuremberg

Nuremberg is a city in the Germany State of Bavaria, in the Regierungsbezirk of Middle Franconia. It is situated on the Pegnitz River river and the Rhine?Main?Danube Canal and is Franconia's largest city....
, to replace the synagogue

Synagogue

A synagogue is a Jewish house of prayer.Synagogues usually have a large hall for prayer , smaller rooms for study and sometimes a social hall and offices....
torn down in the pogrom

Pogrom

A pogrom is a form of riot directed against a particular group, whether ethnic, religious, or other, and characterized by the killing and destruction of their homes, businesses, and religious centers....
of 1349 following the plague. Between 1360-78 Parler built the chancel of the St. Bartholomew church in Kolin

Kolín

Kol?n is a town in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic some 55 kilometres east from Prague, lying on the Elbe river....
. He died in Prague in 1399, and was buried in the St. Vitus cathedral. His work was continued by his sons Wenzel and Johann

Johann Parler

Johann Parler , also known as Johann Parler the Younger, was a German architect of Bohemia.Johann Parler comes from the Parler family, whose members were architects in whole Europe....
.

Asteroid

Asteroid

Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, smaller than planets but larger than meteoroids....
6550 Parlér

6550 Parlér

is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1365.8085165 days . The asteroid was discovered on November 4, 1988....
, discovered in 1988 by Antonín Mrkos

Antonín Mrkos

Anton?n Mrkos was a Czechoslovak astronomer, born in Stremchov?, Czechslovakia....
, was named in his honour.

Literature

Joseph Neuwirth: Peter Parler von Gmund. Dombaumeister in Prag und seine Familie.

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