Carl Heinrich Wünsch

Carl Heinrich Wünsch, portrait by Carl Georg Christian Schumacher from 1831

Carl Heinrich Wünsch (born November 5, 1779 in Blumlage ; † February 10, 1855 in Schwerin ) was a German architect , master builder and construction clerk , most recently he worked as an upper court building officer in Schwerin.

biography

Wünsch was the son of the master carpenter and lock builder Heinrich Ernst Wünsch and his wife Catrine Friederica, nee. Ottens, and received his training as an architect and master builder by studying with Georg Christoph Lichtenberg in Göttingen. For ten years he worked for the Kingdom of Hanover .

When he moved to the partial duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1809, he was the responsible builder in ten districts, including in the offices of Hagenow and Wittenburg. In 1814 he moved to Schwerin as the successor to the late state master builder Carl Friedrich Bentschneider . As early as 1815 he campaigned for the quality improvement and uniform dimensions of bricks. In addition to the responsibility of the construction management and the exercise of his profession as an architect and master builder, Wünsch had to oversee eleven offices and take care of the maintenance of Mecklenburg's rivers and canals. In order to relieve the workload, the tasks relating to court construction and military buildings were handed over to his former assistant Georg Adolph Demmler in 1835 . In 1838 Wünsch became a member of the Chamber Council for Building. For his services in the Kingdom of Hanover, he was awarded the Guelph Order 4th Class (silver) in 1842 . In 1849 Wünsch was awarded the title of Oberhofbaurat. He practiced his profession until the end of June 1853. With his death in 1855 he left a wife and six children.

Works (selection)

College building in Schwerin

1820–1823 Building of the Redefin Stud
1817–1820 construction of the church in Lübenheen
former post office in Redefin , today the rectory
1828 Design of the village church in Redefin , executed 1843–1847 by Wilhelm Wachenhusen
1824–1825 Renewal of the Wittenburg town church together with Georg Adolph Demmler
College building (State Chancellery) in Schwerin (Head)
1827–1829 Main building of the Schwerin Mental Hospital on Sachsenberg with Georg Adolph Demmler
1829 Military hospital in Schwerin, Wismarsche Strasse
1837 Greenhouse in the palace gardens of Schwerin
Draft for the altar structure of the Schelfkirche , Schwerin (St. Nikolai)

Web links

Literature on Carl Heinrich Wünsch in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

↑ Private website on glassworks and forest glass in Northern Germany. Family studies - genealogy , source of the operator: Göttingen matriculation directories
↑ ^a ^b ^c Horst Ende : Almost unknown despite multiple traces. The Schwerin chief building officer Carl Heinrich Wünsch (1779–1855). Mecklenburg-Magazin of the Schweriner Volkszeitung, No. 2/2005, p. 9.

personal data
SURNAME	Wish, Carl Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect and master builder, Hanoverian and Mecklenburg building officials
DATE OF BIRTH	November 5, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH	Blumlage
DATE OF DEATH	February 10, 1855
Place of death	Schwerin

[1] Private website on glassworks and forest glass in Northern Germany. Family studies - genealogy , source of the operator: Göttingen matriculation directories

[Ende-2] Horst Ende : Almost unknown despite multiple traces. The Schwerin chief building officer Carl Heinrich Wünsch (1779–1855). Mecklenburg-Magazin of the Schweriner Volkszeitung, No. 2/2005, p. 9.