Jörg von Halsbach

Jörg von Halsbach, also called Ganghofer (died 6 October 1488), was a late Gothic bricklayer and architect trained probably at Braunau or Wasserburg am Inn. First recorded in 1441 during reconstruction of the choir at Ettal Abbey, he later worked on the parish church at Polling, completed in 1450, but is most famous for Munich's Frauenkirche, begun in red brick in 1468 and raised within twenty years.

From 1470 he remodelled Munich's Old Town Hall in late Gothic style and in 1478 began the Kreuzkirche. He died in Munich in 1488 and was buried in the Frauenkirche.