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Neumann is believed to have been born on 27 January in Eger , Kingdom of Bohemia today Cheb , Czech Republic , the seventh of nine children of cloth-maker Hans Christoph Neumann d. Neumann was baptized on 30 January His first apprenticeship was spent working at a bell and gun foundry in Eger. In , he attended lessons on geometry, architecture and land surveying and joined the local military, in which he remained until his death, then holding the rank of colonel of the artillery.

In , he travelled through northern Italy to study buildings and briefly worked on civilian construction projects at Milan details not known. Although other architects participated, Neumann was able to give the project his personal imprint, which became his life's work. In Neumann traveled and studied in France.

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In , Neumann married Maria Eva Engelberts b. Another work of this period was the church at Kloster Holzkirchen —30 where he combined features of the French, Italian and German Baroque. As chief engineer of the joint Hochstifts , Neumann was responsible for overseeing fortifications, transport and water engineering and for improving urban planning in practical and aesthetical terms.

Neumann built the Corps de Logis of the Schloss Bruchsal after , with its notable stairway.

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In the same town, he also designed the church of St. Peter — which was to be the burial site for the Prince-Bishops of Speyer. This work, in turn, led to Neumann being contacted for further work in the west of Germany. Plans he made for the ducal palace at Stuttgart after , for Schwetzingen Palace and the Residence at Karlsruhe after were never implemented.

As a builder of churches, Neumann recurred to Guarino Guarini , the architecture of his native Bohemia and its transmittance to Franconia by Johann Dientzenhofer. He emphasized the use of the rotunda as a central feature of his churches.