ÖZKD LXXVII Heft 2, pp. 36-42, 2024/04/23
Der Linzer Mariendom
Against the backdrop of an idealistic and romanticised attitude towards medieval construction workshops in the nineteenth century, the Linz Cathedral Workshop (Dombauhütte) was established on 5 May 1862 to mark the construction of the Mariendom. As a strictly paternalistic and hierarchical form of organisation, the Linz Cathedral Workshop is analysed as an institution that represents the conservative values of those in charge of the construction project. The Linz Cathedral Workshop repeatedly incorporated the latest technical tools into the practice of building the Mariendom to cope with the demands of this enormous construction project. In this sense, and in the disputes relating to the workers’ movement that was emerging at the end of the nineteenth century, the Linz Cathedral Workshop reveals itself to be an institution in which aspects of Modernism and the Middle Ages reached their culmination.
