Cornelis Ryckwaert

Cornelis Ryckwaert (* in Utrecht ; † November 9, 1693 in Küstrin ) was a Dutch builder and engineer .

Since 1667 he had been in the service of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm in Brandenburg , whose Dutch wife Luise Henriette von Oranien died in the same year, and became fortress construction manager at Küstrin Fortress . The couple had already called many other Dutch architects, engineers, artists and craftsmen to Brandenburg.

He took up residence in Küstrin and kept it until his death. However, it was also used in other regions for important palace buildings, above all for the princely residential palace in Zerbst, which was only completed later in a modified form, as well as the Zerbster Trinity Church and the Coswig Landschloss (also for the Princely House of Anhalt-Zerbst ). He built Oranienbaum Palace around 1685 for Luise Henriette's sister Henriette Catharina von Anhalt-Dessau . Not far from his residence, in eastern Brandenburg, were the Sonnenburg Castle, Schwedt Castle, the Junker House Frankfurt and Groß Rietz Castle.

Works (selection)

Ordensschloss Sonnenburg , seat of the master masters of the Order of St. John of the Brandenburg Ballei (1662–1667, burned out 1973)

Schwedt Castle (1670, destroyed 1945, blown up in 1962) and Schwedt town planning (1685)

Coswig Castle (from 1674)

Junker House (Frankfurt (Oder)) (1670–1690)

Zerbst Castle (1681–1696, destroyed 1945, then blown up)

Trinitatiskirche Zerbst (1682)

Oranienbaum Castle and Oranienbaum Town Planning (1683–1698)

Groß Rietz Castle (1693–1700)

photos

literature

Christian Nülken : Cornelis Ryckwaert - a Dutch master builder of the 17th century in Brandenburg and Anhalt . In: Sibylle Badstübner-Gröger: Palaces, mansions, castles and gardens in Brandenburg . Berlin 2012, pp. 162-169, ISBN 978-3-86732-108-2 .

Individual evidence

↑ Ursula Geisselbrecht-Capecki, Städtisches Museum Haus Koekkoek: The Lower Rhine: Drawings, Prints and Books from the Robert Angerhausen Collection , Boss-Verlag, 1993, p.269

personal data
SURNAME	Ryckwaert, Cornelis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch builder and engineer
DATE OF BIRTH	17th century
PLACE OF BIRTH	Utrecht
DATE OF DEATH	November 9, 1693
Place of death	Küstrin

[1] Ursula Geisselbrecht-Capecki, Städtisches Museum Haus Koekkoek: The Lower Rhine: Drawings, Prints and Books from the Robert Angerhausen Collection , Boss-Verlag, 1993, p.269