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Christian Gottlob Langwagen or Christian Gottlieb Langwagen (* 1752 or 1753 in Dresden ; † August 13, 1805 in Braunschweig ) was a German architect and Braunschweig court architect .

Life

The trained stone carver , presumably from a poor background, studied copperplate engraving at the Dresden Art Academy from 1770 . There he showed a keen interest in architecture and became a student of the Dresden court architect Friedrich August Krubsacius .

Duke Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Braunschweig finally called him to his royal seat, where he appointed him court architect in 1777. Langwagen went on study trips to Berlin (1789), Central and Southern Germany (1792) and Hamburg (1796). Until Peter Joseph Krahe was hired in 1803, Langwagen was the first design architect in the duchy. He died in Braunschweig in 1805.

Works

Michaeliskirche in Fallersleben

Most of the buildings erected by Langwagen in Braunschweig have been destroyed today. Between 1786 and 1788 he built a palace for Johann Conrad Riedesel on what was then Augustplatz , which was sold to the innkeeper Danne ("Dannes Hotel") in 1884 and largely destroyed in 1944. He designed the palace, which was built between 1787 and 1792, for the Upper Chamber Council of Veltheim at Damm 16, later known as "Brünings Saalbau" (destroyed and demolished in 1944). In 1789, Langwagen completely redesigned the interior of the Michaeliskirche (including pulpit, altar, stalls). The classicist central building of the Residenzschloss was completed in 1790 and burned down in 1830. The long bridge between the old town and Altewiek , built from 1788 to 1791, was demolished in 1879 as part of the Oker canalization. Two half-timbered outbuildings for Richmond Castle , erected between 1783 and 1786, are still preserved today , for which Langwagen also designed a “lantern” in 1785. The Haus zur Sonne on Kohlmarkt followed in 1791/92 . From the late baroque-early classicist landscape house at the Martini church , built between 1793 and 1798 , only the portico integrated into the new district court still exists . Outside of Braunschweig, he created town houses in Wolfenbüttel , school buildings, rectories and industrial buildings. Michaelis Church in Fallersleben , which was built between 1802 and 1805, should be mentioned among his church buildings .

literature

• Norman-Mathias Pingel: Langwagen, Christian Gottlob. In: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 141 .
• Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 370 .
• Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Gerhard Schildt (ed.): The Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte. A region looking back over the millennia . 2nd Edition. Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2001, ISBN 3-930292-28-9 .

Web links

• City chronicle Braunschweig on braunschweig.de
• Writings by Langwagen, Christian Gottlieb 1753–1805. or Langwagen, Christian Gottlieb. on worldcat.org
• Portrait of Christian Gottlieb Langwagen. on bildindex.de
• Landscape building, Braunschweig, An der Martinikirche 8, by Christian Gottlieb Langwagen. on bildindex.de
• Engravings by Langwagen, Christian Gottlieb. on virtuelles-kupferstichkabinett.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ City Chronicle Braunschweig on braunschweig.de
2. ^ Peter Bessin: The Regent as an Architect. Richmond Palace and the Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel pleasure palace buildings between 1680 and 1780 as a paradigm for princely self-expression . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-47904-2 ( Reconstruction of the arts . Volume 5), p. 239
3. ↑ The history of the Braunschweig castle. on braunschweig.de
4. ↑ Richmond Castle. on braunschweig.de
5. ^ Nicole Froberg, Ulrich Knufinke, Susanne Kreykenboom: Wolfsburg. The architecture guide. Braun Publishing, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-03768-055-1 , p. 23.