Enrico Zuccalli, was a Swiss architect

Architect

An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

 who worked for the Wittelsbach

Wittelsbach

The Wittelsbach family is a European royal family and a German dynasty from Bavaria.Members of the family served as Dukes, Electors and Kings of Bavaria , Counts Palatine of the Rhine , Margraves of Brandenburg , Counts of Holland, Hainaut and Zeeland , Elector-Archbishops of Cologne , Dukes of...

 regents of Bavaria

Bavaria

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 and Cologne.

Zuccalli was born in Roveredo

Roveredo

Roveredo is a municipality in the district of Moësa in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.-Geography:Roveredo has an area, , of . Of this area, 8.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 75% is forested...

, Switzerland

Switzerland

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. From 1669 he lived in Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

 and became a major representative of the introduction of Italian baroque

Baroque

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 architecture to Germany. He was a bitter rival of another Swiss architect, Giovanni Antonio Viscardi

Giovanni Antonio Viscardi

Giovanni Antonio Viscardi was a Swiss architect of the baroque, who worked mostly in Bavaria....

. In 1672 Zuccalli became chief architect of the Bavarian court as successor of Agostino Barelli

Agostino Barelli

Agostino Barelli was an Italian architect of the Baroque.Barelli was invited to Munich by Henriette Adelaide of Savoy to construct the Theatinerkirche in 1664. The work was cowded by conflicts with the construction supervisor Spinelli. Barelli created also the draft for Nymphenburg Palace in 1664...

 and remained in office until the Austrian invasion of Bavaria in 1706. He died in Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

.

He was the uncle of (Giovanni) Gaspare Zuccalli who built two churches at Salzburg.

Chief works

• Theatinerkirche (Munich)
  Theatinerkirche (Munich)
  The Theatine Church of St. Cajetan is a Catholic church in Munich, southern Germany. Built from 1663 to 1690, it was founded by Elector Ferdinand Maria and his wife, Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, as a gesture of thanks for the birth of the long-awaited heir to the Bavarian crown, Prince Max...
  
   since 1674 (completing the work of Barelli)
• Residenz, Munich (1680–1701)
• Lustheim Palace
  Schleissheim Palace
  The Schleissheim Palace actually comprises three palaces in a grand baroque park in the village of Oberschleißheim near Munich, Bavaria, Germany. The palace was the summer residence of the rulers of Bavaria.-Old Schleissheim Palace:...
  
   (1684–1689)
• Palais Porcia
  Palais Porcia
  The Palais Porcia is a Baroque mansion in Munich, southern Germany, which served as residence for Count Fugger. It is Munich's oldest still existing Baroque style palace....
  
   in Munich (1694)
• Electoral Palace of Bonn
  Bonn
  Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....
  
   (1697–1702) (later completed by de Cotte)
• Schleissheim Palace
  Schleissheim Palace
  The Schleissheim Palace actually comprises three palaces in a grand baroque park in the village of Oberschleißheim near Munich, Bavaria, Germany. The palace was the summer residence of the rulers of Bavaria.-Old Schleissheim Palace:...
  
   (1701–1704) (later completed by Effner)
• Re-built Ettal Abbey
  Ettal Abbey
  Ettal Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in the village of Ettal close to Oberammergau and Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria, Germany. With a community of more than 50 monks, with another five at Wechselburg, the Abbey is one of the largest Benedictine houses and is a major attraction for...
  
  (1709–26)

Further reading

• Sabin Heym: Henrico Zuccalli: der kurbayerische Hofbaumeister. Schnell und Steiner. München/Zürich 1984, ISBN 3-7954-0365-0
• Norbert Hierl-Deronco: Es ist eine Lust zu bauen. Von Bauherren, Bauleuten und vom Bauen im Barock in Kurbayern - Franken - Rheinland. Krailling 2001, ISBN 3-929884-08-9
• Richard A. L. Paulus: Der Baumeister Henrico Zuccalli. Strassburg 1912