Caspar Voigt from Wierandt

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Caspar Voigt von Wierandt (* around 1500; † December 22, 1560 in Dresden ) was a Dresden fortress builder.

Bear kennel , parts of the old fortress
Moritzburg Castle

Life

In 1541 Voigt von Wierandt was hired as a witness master for the Saxon electors . In 1545 he became "master craftsman and master builder for the fortress construction ". He was responsible for the plans for the reconstruction of the Dresden fortifications, which began in 1546, based on the Dutch-Italian model, including the expansion of the brick gate, the Elbe gate on the Elbe bridge and the Salomonistor. Some of the work was carried out by Melchior Trost . In 1547, Elector Moritz commissioned Voigt von Wierandt to convert the Dresden residential palace into a renaissance palace , in particular the large courtyard, the stair tower, the giant hall and the large house. In 1559 he planned the construction of the Dresden armory , later the Albertinum .

But civil buildings are also attested by him, for example Voigt von Wierandt planned a wooden tube passage (Hochplauensche Wasserleitung), which from 1542 led from the Weißeritzufer in the later district of Plauen to the Dresden city center. From 1542 to 1544 Voigt von Wierandt converted the medieval castle in Senftenberg into a four-winged palace complex. He had these protected by an earth wall with four bastions. This gave the Electorate of Saxony in the northeast of the empire a border fortification.

Caspar Voigt von Wierandt died in 1560 and was buried in the old Frauenkirchhof ; the memorial plaque is exhibited today in the Dresden City Museum. The traces of Voigt von Wierandts can be seen in many other places in Saxony, such as Moritzburg Castle and Freudenstein Castle .

literature

  • Christoph Zeidler: The Dresden Fortress and its builders Caspar Vogt von Wierandt, Rochus Quirinus Graf zu Linar and Paul Buchner . In: 450 Years Dresden Fortress Conference proceedings for the symposium on November 11, 2005 in Dresden Fortress. Dresden 2007, pp. 34–43.
  • Stadtlexikon Dresden A-Z . Verlag der Kunst Dresden 1995, ISBN 3-364-00300-9
  • Eva Papke: Dresden Fortress. From the history of Dresden's city fortifications . 2nd Edition. Dresden 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lars Herrmann: Plauen. In: Dresdner-Stadtteile.de. Retrieved April 11, 2018 . J. Kästner: The Hochplauensche water house. (pdf, 1.2 MB) In: Dresdener Technikhistorie: Blätter zur Wassergeschichte, 3rd Association for Scientists and Engineering Staff Dresden eV (WIMAD) / Frontinus -Gesellschaft eV, March 5, 2007, p. 1 , accessed on August 7 2019 .
  2. ↑ Werner Forkert : Senftenberger retrospectives. Interesting facts from Senftenberg's history . Publisher of the bookstore "Glück Auf", 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Voigt von Wierandt, Caspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vogt von Wierandt, Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Fortress builder in Dresden
DATE OF BIRTH around 1500
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1560
Place of death Dresden