Johann Georg Specht (20 December 1721 – 30 December 1803) was born in Lindenberg im Allgäu. He was a civil engineer and architect in the south of Germany.
Johann Georg Specht trained as a civil engineer with Peter Thumb in Vorarlberg.
Specht planned and had a vast number of edifices and other constructions built in Upper Swabia and the Allgäu, amongst which are as varied constructions as water works, bridges, mills, residential buildings, industrial buildings and even castles and churches.
His main and most famous project was the monastery church St. Martin at Wiblingen Abbey in 1771. He planned and designed the church but was not allowed to execute the building works when the Bavarian painter and civil engineer Januarius Zick was contracted in 1778 to complete the building works after Specht had been dismissed in December 1777.
Works 1748–1750: industrial building at castle Ratzenried 1751: parish church in Eglofs 1753: parish church in Baisingen near Nagold 1754: castle Amtzell 1855–1756: hunting castle and chapel St Leonard in Rimpach near Leutkirch 1765: extension of the parish church in Lindenberg/Allgäu 1771: parish church in Wiggensbach near Kempten/Allgäu 1771-1778: church at Wiblingen Abbey 1776-1779: castle Kleinlaupheim in Laupheim 1778: mail coach station in Kempten/Allgäu 1782: industrial buildings at Irsee Monastery 1786-1789: castle Neutrauchberg near Isny 1792: parish church in Scheidegg near Lindenberg im Allgäu
Honour A street in Lindenberg im Allgäu has been named Baumeister-Specht-Strasse.
Further reading
External links Webpage about Wiblingen Abbey German webpage about Specht's work in Amtzell (in German)