Andreas II. (Endres)
Tucher

Traxdorfer Tucher, Andreas II (Endres)

Patrician, councilman, city architect, Carthusian monk,

Son of Andreas I. ∞ May 4, 1446, Adelheid Gundlach (* Bamberg – † December 4, 1482, Bamberg), childless.

From 1454 to 1476, he was a councilman and city architect, and in 1461, city architect of Nuremberg. He resigned on April 4, 1476.

The master builder's book he kept from 1464 to 1470, with addenda up to 1475, is a unique account of the organization and activities of one of the most important offices of the Imperial City. He lived at the Milchmarkt (Milk Market). On April 4, 1476, with his wife's consent, he entered the Carthusian monastery in Nuremberg as a lay brother, where he lived for another 31 years. He bequeathed a large part of his fortune to his three brothers. Panzer recorded his portrait. His wife returned to her family in Bamberg and later married Heinrich Haßfurter.

Museum: Nuremberg State Archives.

Lit.: ADB; Biedermann, 1748, Plate DVII; Roth, 1802; Höhn-Oertel, 1928; Nürnberger Gestalten, 1950; L. Grote: Die Tucher, Bildnis einer Patrizierfamilie, 1961; Schwemmer, in: MVGN 51, 1962; Bosl; Mende, Rathaus 1979; CD-ROM “Das Große Tucherbuch”, 2004. Exhibition: 2000/5, p. 132.

(quoted from the Nuremberg Artists' Lexicon, edited by Manfred H. Grieb