Southern German Baroque and immigration to Sathmar (Romania)
Southern German Baroque and immigration to Sathmar (Romania)

Summary/Abstract: The first court architect of the county Károlyi in NW Romania after the immigration of the Swabians was Josef Bittheuser, originary from Würzburg, Franken, Germany. The city of Würzburg displayed the splendour of Baroque under the Schönborn family of prince-bishops, the main architect of whom was Balthasar Neumann. The fascination of the architecture of the home city of Josef Bittheuser was in line with the Swabian immigrants who came from a region where land was owned by monasteries and were deeply religious and built new churches, the only built works of Josef Bittheuser which remained.

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