The Cathedral of Szombathely
Melchior Hefele (Kaltenbrunn, 1716 - Szombathely, 1794) was an Austrian architect.
Melchior Hefele was born in Tyrol, in the locality of Kaltenbrunn, by the peasants Michael and Katharina Auer. He had started the artistic activity working at the yard, led by Balthasar Neumann, of the palace of the bishop-prince of Würzburg. From the Bavarian town he had come to Vienna, where he had been influenced above all by the influence of architecture by Fischer von Erlach, an architect in turn strongly influenced by Andrea Palladio. In 1756 Hefele arrived for the first major commission, the construction of the main altar of the sanctuary of Sonntagsberg. At the beginning of the seventies he built the episcopal palace of Passau and restored the cathedral of Győr (1770-1772). Between 1777 and the year of his death, he worked mainly for the bishop of Szombathely, János Szily, making the local cathedral. It seems to have worked for the bishop of Eger Károly Esterházy. Bibliografiamodifica wikitesto
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