Carl Christoph Wilhelm Fleischer

Carl Christoph Wilhelm Fleischer (* 10. July 1727 in Köthen (Anhalt) ; † 20th August 1787 in Braunschweig ) was a German architect of the Baroque .

life and work

Richmond Castle

Fleischer had been a ducal-Braunschweig engineer under Charles I from around 1750 and in 1765 succeeded the court architect Georg Christoph Sturm (1698–1763). When Christian Gottlob Langwagens was appointed to Braunschweig in 1782 , Fleischer stepped back in the second row. Presumably he was responsible for structural damage to Richmond Castle , his main work, that he was responsible for. He died in Braunschweig in 1787.

In the years 1763 to 1765 he built the must house of Dankwarderode Castle in Braunschweig into a baroque style palace for Ferdinand , the brother of Duke Charles I ("Ferdinandsbau"). Fleischer's main work is the classicist Richmond Castle , which was built between 1768 and 1769 and was built for the Duchess Augusta from England at the southern end of the city of Braunschweig. The combined convent on the Eiermarkt was established between 1779 and 1780 and was destroyed in the Second World War. His last work was the Great Orphanage BMV , built from 1784 to 1787 and destroyed in 1944 .

literature

• Norman-Mathias Pingel: Fleischer, Carl Christoph Wilhelm in: Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (Ed.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Supplementary volume. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1996, ISBN 3-926701-30-7 , p. 46-47 .

Web links

• Richmond Castle (PDF; 1.4 MB) on braunschweig.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dankwarderode Castle  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on mobile-history.eu, accessed on February 10, 2013.  
2. ↑ Stadtchronik Braunschweig 1700 to 1799 on braunschweig.de, accessed on February 10, 2013.