Albrecht Anton Meldau

Albrecht Anton Meldau (also: Otto Meldau and Otto Albrecht Anton Meldau and Albrecht Anton Meldaw ; * before 1637; buried 10. November 1654 in Hannover ) was a German officer and Herzoglich Brunswick-Lüneburgischer Bauverwalter . He was the first master builder of the Leineschloss .

Life

In the first half of the 17th century, Albrecht Anton Meldau - like other great architects of his time - initially received training in artillery weapons . He later served in the military as a play captain . It was said that he came from Hildesheim .

After the middle of the Thirty Years' War General and Hanoverian sovereign Duke George of the Calenberg called Georg iron hand in early 1636 by unilateral will decree the city of Hannover to his new residence had declared that he determined the building of the former minority monastery on Leineufer the location for the to be constructed " Leineschloss ".

Already on May 19 of the following year 1637, Meldau, as building manager, had the Barfüßer monastery demolished, for which 27 poor people were evicted from the two local hospitals on the evening of the same day. Then, according to plans by the architect Kurt Harm , Meldau began with the construction of the castle, which continued until 1642. At that time, a three-storey half-timbered building was implemented, in which the old monastery church was also included as the new castle church .

Since the Duke of Calenberg had moved to Hanover with a large entourage, the Calenberger Neustadt was laid out for the accompanying court - and included in the city ​​fortifications of Hanover during the war - in order to settle the authorities there and to give residences for the sovereign's servants and soldiers enable. In the early stages of the expansion of this Calenberger Neustadt, Meldau was also responsible as a building manager.

During the war built Meldau together with the Bausch collectors in the years 1642 to 1648 acquired on the already in 1638 by Georg Eisenhand grounds outside of Hanover on the road to sticks on behalf of George's successor, Christian Ludwig a farmyard , in the local small dairy farm was included - Forerunner of Herrenhausen Palace and the Great Garden .

After the end of the war, the sovereign had the Ballhof built inside a building block in Hanover's old town in 1649 ; Albrecht Anton Meldau is believed to be the builder.

Meldau owned a full meier farm in Döhren .

Meldau's successor as master builder was the Italian Lorenzo Bedogni under Duke Georg Wilhelm in 1652 . Brand Westermann , who previously worked as a construction clerk at the Hanoverian court, was the next building manager .

Other works

• between 1640 and 1656: Demolition of the castle in Nienover and construction of Nienover Castle

Meldaustraße

The Meldaustraße, which was laid out in the Herrenhausen district of Hanover in 1925 and named after the first master builder of the Leineschloss, connects Halthoffstraße with Herrenhäuser Straße.

Archival material

Archives by and about Albrecht Anton Meldau can be found, for example

• in a file under the title "Heiliger case, March to April 1663" in the Lower Saxony State Archives (Hanover location) , archive signature NSA, Hann. 76a, XXII, No. 18, Vol. 1

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ludwig Döry , Francesco Cessi:  Bedogni, Lorenzo, detto Lorenzo da Reggio. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 7:  Bartolucci – Bellotto. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1965.
2. ^ ^{A b} Adolf Köcher : Hannoversche Stadtchronik from 1635 to 1652. From the manuscript "Chronologia Hannoverana mitgetheilt ..." , in: Eduard Bodemann , Adolf Köcher, KW Meyer (Red.): Journal of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony , Hanover: Hofbuchdruckerei Gebrüder Jänecke, 1878, pp. 42–49; here: p. 43; Digitized via Google books
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Helmut Zimmermann : Meldaustraße , in which: The street names of the state capital Hanover . Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 172
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Georg Schnath : The history of the linen lock. 1636–1943 , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 9, Issue 4, Special Issue Leineschloss , pp. 19–221; here: pp. 28, 38
5. ↑ ^{a b} Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Hinrich-Wilhelm-Kopf-Pl. 1 , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (eds.): Hannover. Art and Culture Lexicon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, Springe: zu Klampen, 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , pp. 148–151; here: p. 149
6. ↑ ^{a b} Kurt Morawietz (Ed.): Brilliant Herrenhausen. History of a welfen residence and its gardens , Hanover: Steinbock-Verlag, 1981, p. 98; limited preview in Google Book search
7. ^ ^{A b} Klaus Mlynek : Residenzrezess (contract) , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 521
8. ↑ Martina Trauschke : Memoirs of the Electress Sophie of Hanover. A courtly life picture from the 17th century , Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8353-1514-3 and ISBN 978-3-8353-2645-3 ; limited preview in Google Book search
9. ↑ Klaus Mlynk: Calenberger Neustadt , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , S. 405f.
10. ^ ^{A b} Siegfried Busch: Hanover, Wolfenbüttel and Celle. City foundations and city expansions in 3 Guelph residences from the 16th to the 18th century (= sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony , vol. 75), at the same time dissertation Dissertation 1969 at the University of Göttingen, Hildesheim: Verlag August Lax, 1969, p. 93; limited preview in Google Book search
11. ^ Deutsche Kunst und Denkmalpflege (1986), p. 51; limited preview in Google Book search
12. ↑ Rolf Ebritsch, Heather Rose cracks (ed.), Detlef Brandes, Rolf Ebritsch (texts): The St. Peter's Church on Hanover-Döhren. A little church leader. For the 60th anniversary of the reconstruction 1949–2009 , Ed .: Church council of the Ev.-luth. St. Petri parish, Hanover: Ev.-luth. St. Petri-Kirchengemeinde, 2012, p. 10; also as a PDF document from the website of the parish of St. Petri (Döhren)
13. ^ Dietrich Lösche : State building administration in Lower Saxony. From local building officials in the agricultural district to state construction management (= publications by the Institute for Historical Research at the University of Göttingen , vol. 45), Gütersloh: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 2004, ISBN 978-3-89534-545-6 and ISBN 3-89534-545- 8 , p. 38; limited preview in Google Book search
14. ↑ Nathalie Kruppa : Dassel. C .: Nienover , in Jörg Wettläufer (Ed.): Courtyards and residences in the late medieval empire. A dynastic topographical handbook. Grafen und Herren (= Residency Research, Volume 15.IV, Part 1), 1st edition, Ostfildern: Thorbecke, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7995-4525-9 , pp. 301–304; Digitized via the website of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences