Daniel Stürler

Lenzburg Castle, staircase (far left in the picture), built by Daniel Stürler (around 1728)

Daniel Stürler ( ~ December 21, 1674 in Bern ; † 1746 there ; citizen of Bern) was a Swiss architect .

Life

Daniel Stürler was born in Bern as the son of Johann Franz Stürler and Anna Barbara Stürler. He inherited the Worblaufen estate from his father. His first marriage was Katharina von Wattenwyl in 1700. In 1710 he became a member of the Grand Council. From 1721 to 1725 he directed the construction of the Hindelbank Castle on behalf of Hieronymus von Erlach . Stürler wrote plans for the Heiliggeistkirche and the Burgerspital in Bern. As governor of Lenzburg from 1725 to 1731, he planned and built a staircase ( scalin ) near the main entrance of Lenzburg Castle. Due to financial difficulties, he later withdrew from political life and in 1733 acquired the Gasthof Krone in Bern, which he possibly rebuilt with his son Albrecht Stürler .

Works

• Hindelbank Castle (1721–1725)
• Cotterd Castle (1728) (attributed)
• Lenzburg Castle , staircase (1731/1732)
• Residential house, Postgasse 68 in Bern (around 1733)
• Residential house, Postgasse 66 in Bern (around 1734)
• Residence, Rathausgasse 53 in Bern (around 1735)
• "Gasthof Krone", Gerechtigkeitsgasse in Bern (around 1744–1745)

swell

• Scattered stocks in the Bern Burger Library

literature

• Thomas Markus Loertscher, Georg Germann: Real, useful and beautiful. (Exhibition catalog), Bern 1994, p. 392.
• Christoph Schläppi: Stürler, Daniel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .