Christian Gottfried Hahmann

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Christian Gottfried Hahmann (born February 6, 1739 in Mittweida ; † July 16, 1798 in Dresden ) was a German Rococo builder who mainly worked in Dresden and is now primarily known for his involvement in the Palais Cosel .

Life

Coselpalais, 2006
Old country house, Dresden
Reisewitz Garden, around 1780

He was born in 1739 in the former court house at Kirchstrasse 16 in Mittweida. The Saxon engineering corps put the pupil of the court mason Siegmund Gottlieb Bormann, who died in 1757, into its service in 1760. Six years later, the masons guild registered him as a master. In 1773 Hahmann Kammer became a conductor , in 1795 a court mason.

Under Julius Heinrich Schwarze , he built the Coselpalais for Friedrich August von Cosel on the edge of Dresden's Neumarkt opposite the Frauenkirche from 1762 to 1764 , including two previous buildings that were destroyed in the war ( Caesar's house, Knoeffel's house ) . Around 1766 he designed numerous town houses in Dresden in simpler forms, such as the house at Pirnaische Strasse  1, various houses on Moritzgasse and in front of the Pirnaischer Tor . According to the plans of Friedrich August Krubsacius , he built the country house in Dresden from 1770 to 1776 .

He was also responsible for the large Vitzthum garden house in the Reisewitz garden near Plauen . In addition, according to the plans of the architect and Saxon building inspector Johann August Giesel , Hahmann is said to have changed the Maximilianisches Garten-Palais in Friedrichstädter Allee according to the Ionic order in 1783 .

family

The Seetor, Dresden, where Hahmann's father was the gatekeeper

Hahmann was born in the historical, former hereditary court, Kirchstrasse 16 in Mittweida, as the son of the merchant and trader in Mittweida and finally Königl. Thorschreiber at the Seetor in Dresden, Johann Zacharias Hahmann (* around 1690 in Mittweida; buried on May 25, 1753 in Dresden) and his wife Christiane Theodosia b. Lehmann (* around 1707; buried on August 4, 1749 in Dresden). The house where he was born had to be sold to Mayor Johann Christian Lange on August 20, 1740 due to bankruptcy, and the family moved to Dresden. Hahmann's mother died when he was only 10 years old, his father when he was 14 years old, both of consumption. Hahmann's paternal grandfather, also called Christian Gottfried Hahmann, was the mayor of Mittweida. Hahmann's brother, Johann Zacharias Hahmann d. J. (* February 12, 1735; † May 6, 1763 in Meißen) was a painter at the porcelain factory in Meißen , since at least 1750. His brother-in-law (husband of Sophia Theodosia Hahmann) Christian Gottlieb Schüffner (* June 4, 1729 to Mittweida; † July 15, 1802 zu Chemnitz) was his electoral highness of Saxony highly appointed Accis Inspector to Rochlitz and Mittweida, also distinguished Jurispracticus and his Excellency the General von Arnim a highly deserved court director to Neusorge . Hahmann was the godfather of the grandchildren of his sister - Caroline Friedericke Hinkel nee. Schüffner (* February 1, 1794 in Mittweida; † October 5, 1864 in Chemnitz) and her half-brother, the calico printing company founder Carl Wilhelm Schüffner (* February 23, 1802 in Mittweida; † May 2, 1872 in Chemnitz) - in the Mittweida baptismal register as " Hof Kammer Conductor to Dresden ”mentioned.

Hahmann's first wife, Eleonora Charlotta (December 1740 - June 1767 in Dresden) was buried on June 7, 1767 in the St. Johanniskirchhof . She died at the age of 26 years, 7 months and 2 days of stroke and stroke, " at the Frauenkirche , in Herr von Cosel's house" (probably the Coselpalais ).

Hahmann married Johanna Sophia NN around 1771 (* 1752; buried on February 9, 1783 in Dresden). Four children are known:

  1. Friedrich Christian Hahmann (baptized August 17, 1772 in Dresden);
  2. Wilhelmina Friederica Hahmann (born October 4, 1775 in Dresden);
  3. Carolina Sophia Hahmann (* 1777; buried April 25, 1782 in Dresden);
  4. Juliane Wilhelmine Hahmann (baptized on August 16, 1780 in Dresden).

In his third marriage, Hahmann was married to Christiana Ernestina NN (* around 1767; buried on September 14, 1827 in Dresden).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. There are contradicting statements about the building history of the Coselpalais, each of which has been passed down in the literature to the present day. On the one hand, Julius Heinrich Schwarze is said to have built the palace for Cosel, and on the other hand, Hahmann and Christoph Gotthard Schwarze are said to have done it.
    The Palais Cosel. Gesellschaft Historischer Neumarkt Dresden , accessed on September 25, 2019 . Heinz Quinger : Dresden and the surrounding area, history, art and culture of the Saxon capital. DuMont Art Travel Guide, 4th edition 2005, p. 141.
  2. ^ Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon. Volume 5, EA Fleischmann, Munich 1837, p. 161.
  3. ^ Johann Christian Hasche : Magazine of Saxon History. 1. Theil, Dresden 1784, p. 344.
  4. Dresden weekly paper
  5. Herman Jedding: European porcelain: from its origins to 1800. Keyser, 1971.
    Rainer Rückert: biographical data of Meissen Manufakturisten the 18th century. Bavarian National Museum, 1990.
  6. Dresden Wochenzettel, signature 2.1.3.C.XXI.20-38.
  7. Signature 2.1.3.C.XXI.20 / 102, Dresden, church week sheet.