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- ↑ Seckauer Kirchenschmuck, 1880, p. 56
- ↑ Heinrich Schreiber, Münster zu Freiburg, Appendix, 15 sq.
- ↑ There is a "Johannes of Graz" mentioned as architect in Ricci, Storia dell' archit. italiana, II, 388
- 1 2 3 Huggel, Doris (2003). Der Werkmeister Hans Nussdorf in Basel: "mit gantzem fliss" (in German). Schwabe publishing house. pp. 64–65. ISBN 978-3-7965-2017-4.
- 1 2 Huggel, Doris (2003).p.65
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Gietmann, Gerhard (1913). "Hans Niessenberger". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company. The entry cites:
- Franz Theodor Kugler, Geschichte der Baukunst, II (1859)
- Heinrich Otte , Kunst-Archäologie (5th ed., 1884)
- Friedrich Kempf , Das Münster zu Freiburg im Breisgau (Freiburg, 1898).