Christian Richter (master builder, 1655)

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Christian Richter (* 1655 in Weimar ; † September 21, 1722 there ) was a German builder .

Life

Town hall tower in Weißenfels

Christian Richter came from the Weimar painters and architects family Richter and was the son of Johann Moritz Richter the Elder (1620–1667) and received from him or his older brother Johann Moritz Richter the Younger (1647–1705) an apprenticeship as a builder and Architect. He then went to university and continued his education abroad. In 1690 he came to the Weissenfels court as a princely builder . In the same year Richter rebuilt the town hall tower with a tower clock there. The poet Johann Beer wrote in his diary :

" November 2nd. this year H. Christian Richter erected the new Rathauß Tower here, and so the third Seiger started to beat. "

- Johann Beer

A congratulatory carmen from Richter himself for the inauguration of the town hall tower on October 28, 1690 is on record:

Your fame grows, my Weissenfels, from time to time
Through the splendor of your house that you have prepared,
And through the opera that you see every year, the
prize of your prince will go to many countries.

In 1699 he was given the construction management of the Coburg Castle Chapel; on September 25, 1698, he wrote from Saalfeld that he could not leave for Coburg because of the change in architecture. From 1700 to 1710 he was in the Saxon-Röhmhildschen service and at the same time worked for the courts in Saxony-Meiningen , Saxony-Hildburghausen and Saxony-Coburg-Saalfeld . From 1710 he worked for Duke Wilhelm-Ernst of Saxe-Weimar and in 1713 was appointed chief architect as successor to Johann Mützel . He built numerous secular and sacred buildings .

Old high school (today Wilhelm-Ernst-Gymnasium) after the renovation in 2014

Characteristic of his architectural style are the gable or dormers attached to the facades , which are designed as circular segment surfaces in connection with rectangular surfaces.

His great-grandfather was the painter Erasmus Richter , who was born in 1544 and died in Altenburg in 1608 . His grandfather (had the goldsmith Augustus Richter, born on February 16, 1600 in Altenburg, as a brother) was the Weimar court painter Christian Richter (1587-1667), his other sons (his two uncles) the court painter Wilhelm Richter (1626-1702) and the Albrecht Richter (1623–1674) was a painter . His older brother Johann Moritz Richter the Younger and his son Johann Adolph Richter (1682–1768) were also architects.

Old ducal house in Weißenfels, left the ducal ballroom

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Buildings

  • Installation of the castle chapel in the west wing of Glücksburg (Römhild) in 1681/1682
  • Weißenfels town hall tower 1690 (topping-out ceremony on August 27, 1690; opening on November 2, 1690)
  • Old Ducal House (Prinzessinnenpalast) Weißenfels, original year of construction 1680–1685 (probably 2nd floor added by Richter, 1697/1698)
  • Residential and commercial building Alt-Weißenfels 1697 (probably)
  • Ducal ballroom Weißenfels 1698 (presumably)
  • Saalfeld Castle , expansion in 1698/99
  • Interior work on Saalfeld Castle 1704
  • Hildburghausen Palace Chapel 1705
  • Interior planning for the Saalfeld Castle Church 1709–1714
  • Breeding and orphanage Weimar 1713
  • Reithaus Weimar 1715-1718
  • Old grammar school Weimar 1716
  • Large hunter's house in Weimar (Marienstrasse 5–7) 1717–1720
  • Stone four-arch bridge over the Ilm Oberweimar, 1720–1722

Literary works

  • The most noble prince and lord, Mr. Heinrichs, Hertzogens zu Sachsen ... Princely building pleasure. Georg Heinrich Oppermann, Römhild, 1698. (co-author)

literature

  • Friedrich Gerhardt: History of the city of Weissenfels a. S .: with new articles on the history of the Duchy of Saxony-Weissenfels. Weißenfels, 1907, p. 221.
  • Helga Baier Schrätze: The stucco decoration in Thuringia from the 16th to the 18th century. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 1968, pp. 27 and 49f.
  • Gitta Günther, Wolfram Huschke, Walter Steiner (eds.): Weimar - Lexicon for city history. Böhlaus Nachf., Weimar, 1998, p. 26ff., P. 367.
  • Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia, Volume 8, Poethen - Schlueter. 2nd revised edition, Saur, Munich, 2007, p. 369.
  • Vinzenz Czech (ed.): Princes without a land: courtly splendor in the Saxon secundogenitures. Lukas, Berlin, 2009, p. 73.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ansgar M. Cordie: space and time of vagrants: forms of appropriating the world in the German picaresque novel of the 17th century. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York, 2015, p. 278.
  2. ^ Arno Werner: Urban and princely music care in Weißenfels up to the end of the 18th century. Breitkppf & Härtel, Leipzig, 1911, p. 111.
  3. ↑ Helen Geyer: Johann Sebastian Bach in Weimar (1708-1717) Hainholz, Göttingen, 2008, p. 136.
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German builder
DATE OF BIRTH 1655
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1722
Place of death Weimar