South German late Gothic architecture, the lodge conference of Regensburg
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15th-century architects, further developing the mid-fourteenth century style of the Parler workshop of Schwäbisch Gmünd, began the construction of several large hall churches with ambulatories, which were usually not finished until the 16th century. The most important representatives of this architectural circle are the parish churches of Schwäbisch Hall, Nördlingen, Dinkelsbühl in Swabia; Nürnberg and Amberg in Franconia; Landshut, München, Ingolstadt, and Salzburg in southern Bavaria and its environs.
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the lodge conference of Regensburg
On 25 April, 1459 several architects and stone cutters gathered from the great architectural workshops of the Holy Roman Empire, with the exception of Saxony. This was the first known instance of a lodge conference. The hierarchical order of the lodges was officially recorded, which was necessary because of the lawsuits and debates between the different lodges that had to be settled. The authority of four main lodges was accepted, of which the primary one was the lodge of Strassburg. The other three were the lodges of Cologne, Bern and Vienna. Lambach, Steyr, Waidhofen, Hungary and the territories along the river Danube all came under the authority of the Viennese main lodge led by Laurentz Spenyng.
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