Casper Vogell

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Friedenstein Castle
Skokloster Castle , Sweden

Casper Vogell (* around 1600 , † 1663 ) was a master builder from Thuringia .

biography

So far nothing is known about the early days and training of Casper Vogell, who probably came from Thuringia (also known under the name variant Caspar Vogel ). The village of Nägelstedt in the commander of the Teutonic Order Ballei Thuringia in the Thuringian District of the Electorate of Saxony may be his place of birth, as family relationships can be proven here.

Since 1625 he was in the service of the city of Erfurt , where he was called in in 1631 by the Swedish King Gustav Adolf and Duke Wilhelm IV of Saxe-Weimar to expand the fortifications. An employment relationship with the Swedes in Erfurt existed until they withdrew from the Thuringian metropolis in 1650. Since the mid-1630s, in addition to his activity in Erfurt, he was also in the service of Duke Ernst the Pious , on whose behalf he met from 1643, among others was involved with Andreas Rudolff in the planning work and the construction of Schloss Friedenstein . As far as we know today, the execution draft for this largest German palace in the period of the Thirty Years' War comes from Vogell himself. On behalf of the Gotha Duke, Vogell also worked on the fortress Wachsenburg , in Oldisleben, and on making Unstrut , Weser and Werra navigable .

From the second half of the 1640s there were increased contacts with the Swedish General Carl Gustav Wrangel , for whom Vogell subsequently carried out various construction work in Bremervörde and Wrangelsburg Castle near Greifswald in the early 1650s . He is also credited with participating in the planning and execution of Wrangel's Skokloster Castle in Sweden. Vogell died before December 12, 1663, probably on a business trip. In the church book of the Erfurt Michelis parish, the date November 9, 1664 is erroneously noted as an addendum.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thuringia: landscape, culture and history in the green heart of Germany [1]
  2. ^ Rohrmüller, Marc: Schloss Friedenstein. Architecture, distribution, equipment. In: Ernst the Pious 1601 - 1675. Builder and collector. Edited by Juliana Ricarda Brandsch. Gotha 2001, p. 12.
  3. ^ Roswitha Jacobsen, Hans-Jörg Ruge: Ernst der Fromme (1601–1675): Statesman and Reformer: scientific contributions and catalog to the exhibition , quartus-Verlag, 2002, pages 238, 240, 302, ISBN 3931505960 [2]
  4. ↑ Sweden , Petra Juling, page 301, [3]
personal data
SURNAME Vogell, Casper
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vogel, Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Thuringian builder
DATE OF BIRTH around 1600
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Nägelstedt
DATE OF DEATH 1663