Carl Gottlob Horn

Carl Gottlob Horn (* 1734 in Pirna , Saxony ; † May 1, 1807 in Emkendorf , Holstein ) was a German architect and builder as well as interior designer and landscape architect who was exclusively in the service of the businessman Heinrich Carl Graf von Schimmelmann . Horn built several manor houses with appropriate parks in Holstein and was a typical representative of the classicist architectural style.

Life

Ahrensburg Castle

The Schimmelmann mausoleum in Hamburg-Wandsbek

Manor house of Gut Emkendorf

Manor house of Gut Falkenberg

After his studies and his first professional years in Dresden , Horn, who was strongly influenced by the French Nicolas-Henri Jardin (1720–1799), entered the service of the “richest man in Europe”, the businessman Heinrich Carl Graf von Schimmelmann ( 1724–1782), and has since worked exclusively for him and his family. Schimmelmann had worked as a businessman and diplomat in Dresden from 1744–1757 and probably became aware of Horn at that time.

After a study trip through France (1763), Horn was commissioned in 1766 to rebuild Ahrensburg Castle , which Schimmelmann had acquired in 1759. Horn's compatriot Johan August Rothe (1734 to after 1801), whom Schimmelmann had previously brought from Saxony and commissioned to build a brewery in Ahrensburg , was responsible for the interior fittings . The painted wallpapers in the style of classical antiquity were later made by Giuseppe Anselmo Pellicia , who was known for his Pompeian style.

Horn then built the new Wandsbek Castle in the years 1772–1778 on the old foundations of the Wandesburg according to preliminary drafts by the Italian Giovanni Antonio Antolini , an ornate manor house with the character of a castle, which was demolished in 1861. The stucco work presumably came from Francesco Antonio Tadey . After Schimmelmann's death in 1782, the property passed to his son Carl Christian . It was not until the years 1787–1791 that Horn built the Schimmelmann mausoleum on the cemetery of the Christ Church.

In the years 1782/1783 Horn made the first plans for the conversion of Gut Knoop , which actually provided for the mere conversion of the old moated castle on the castle island. Heinrich Friedrich Graf von Baudissin (1753–1818), Danish general and envoy in Berlin , took over the estate after his marriage to Schimmelmann's daughter Caroline (1760–1826) and began to redesign it with the help of his wife's fortune. But after the construction of the Schleswig-Holstein Canal (1777–1784), the Baudissins decided to completely rebuild the mansion, which is why Horn's plans were not implemented. Instead, the landowners entrusted the young Danish architect Axel Bundsen (1768–1832) with the new building, and Tadey again did the stucco work. The design of the surrounding landscape park in the English style was reserved for Horn. Around 1790, he incorporated the canal bank into the harmoniously modeled park landscape with ponds and their interplay of open lawns and groups of trees.

From 1791 Horn devoted himself to the reconstruction plans of Gut Emkendorf in today's Rendsburg-Eckernförde district , which Friedrich Graf von Reventlow (1754–1828) had inherited from his father Heinrich in 1783 , and gave it its current appearance. The Italian painter Pellicia and the plasterer Tadey were brought in again for these renovations . Reventlow had married Schimmelmann's daughter Juliane (1762-1816) in 1779 . The immense wealth of their father made it possible to redesign the whole house, which the young couple moved into in 1789, in a classicist style.

Horn then built the manor on Gut Falkenberg ( municipality of Lürschau ) in the years 1796–1804 for the Danish chamberlain and major general Heinrich Graf von Reventlou (1763–1848 ). The wall paintings are again by the Italian Pellicia. Reventlou, married to Sophie Countess von Baudissin (1778-1853), bought the area around the former Freihof "Ruhekrug" at the end of the 18th century in order to build his new courtyard there, which he named "Falkenberg".

Horn died in Emkendorf in 1807 only three years after the completion of the construction work on Falkenberg.

literature

• Sys Hartmann: Carl Gottlob Horn . In: Weilbach: Dansk Kunstnerleksikon . 1994-2000.
• Peter Hirschfeld: Carl Gottlob Horn 1734–1807. A forgotten builder from Schleswig-Holstein . In: H. Schmidt, F. Fuglsang (Hrsg.): Nordelbingen - contributions to local research in Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Lübeck . Volume 10, Part 3 and 4. Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt, 1934.
• Peter Hirschfeld: Schleswig-Holstein mansions, manors and gardens of the 18th century, their owners and builders . Mühlau, Kiel 1935.
• Carl-Heinrich Seebach:  Horn, Carl Gottlob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 630 f. ( Digitized version ).