Aberlin Tretsch

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Aberlin Tretsch (* around 1500 in Stuttgart ; † 1577 there ) was a builder and architect for Duke Christoph von Württemberg .

Life

Since 1537 he can be verified as a builder in the service of Duke Christoph. His task was to carry out the Duke's extensive construction program, which is why he worked almost exclusively in the area of ​​the Duchy of Württemberg .

His most important building was the conversion of the Old Castle Stuttgart from a medieval moated castle to a representative Renaissance castle between 1553 and 1563. The old main building was expanded with three wings around the castle courtyard. Since the renovation, three-storey arcades, adorned with fluted columns and various capitals, have provided access to the three palace wings in the courtyard. However, they do not correspond to the classic column order . In 1562 the castle church was consecrated in the south-west wing, which is the first Protestant church building in Württemberg and, as a preaching church, differs from the early church models in the shape of the transverse church . Duke Christoph von Württemberg sent him to Kulmbach in 1563 to his brother-in-law, Margrave Georg Friedrich the Elder. Ä. to Brandenburg. He was supposed to assess the progress of construction on the Plassenburg and influenced the planning of the castle church there, which, like its Stuttgart model, was then built as a transept church.

Other buildings include Göppingen Castle (1556–1565) and Leonberg Castle (1560–1565), the expansion of Waldenbuch Castle (1558–1570) and Pfullingen Hunting Lodge (1560–1565) as well as the construction of the castle within Hohentwiel Fortress (1553/54 ). In 1557 he was busy building the new Neuenbürg Castle near Pforzheim. Between 1557 and 1560 he converted the Augustinian monastery in Tübingen into the Tübingen monastery . In Esslingen he built the Blaubeurer care farm (1575).

Shortly before his death he took stock of his professional activity: It no longer brought him "then a thick head, evil blind eyes, lame thighs and a weak, sick loaf".

A famous student was Blasius Berwart .

literature

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  1. Karlheinz Fuchs: Architecture in the German Southwest . 2004, ISBN 3-87181-491-1 , p. 50