David treasure

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David Schatz (* 1667 or 1668 in Dresden ; † March 15, 1750 in Leipzig ) was one of the great architects and garden architects of the Saxon Baroque .

As a student of the master builder Pöppelmann , he brought the Dresden Baroque style to Leipzig and the rural regions of the Electorate of Saxony. He was also the court architect of the Schwarzburg, Polish and, since 1714, Saxon country architect.

Live and act

Salvator Church in Gera

The architect and landscape designer David Schatz, who should not be confused with the builder of the same name from Colditz, came from a poor background and learned the trade of gardener in Dresden. There he belonged to the circle around Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann (1662–1736) and maintained good relations with the court of Augustus the Strong , before he was born in 1700, possibly at the request of the Caspar brothers (1645–1700) and Georg Bose (1650–1700), moved to Leipzig.

There he asserted himself as one of the leading Leipzig architects of the baroque era, without the masons' guild like Johann Gregor Fuchs (1650–1715), Christian Döring (1677–1750), George Werner (1682–1758) or Friedrich Seltendorff (1700–1778) to have belonged to the trade fair city. In contrast to these architects and master builders, the focus of his work did not only extend to Leipzig and its surroundings, but to the entire Central German area. David Schatz was not influenced by the work of Fuchs or Döring and developed his own architectural style independently from them.

Knauthain Castle

In addition to the construction of Knauthain Castle (1700 to 1703) for Karl-Hildebrand von Dieskau and various Leipzig town houses or the construction of the Salvatorkirche in Gera (1717 to 1720), Schatz also designed gardens such as Apple's Garden or the Castle Park in Zöbigker . The baroque rebuilding or reconstruction of Burgscheidungen Castle, which he directed from 1724 to 1732, is considered to be his main work and is one of the outstanding achievements of castle architecture in Central Germany .

In 1738 the valued specialist was asked to submit an expert opinion on the planned dome construction of the Dresden Frauenkirche. David Schatz settled the dispute between the builder George Bähr (1666–1738) and the structural engineer Gaetano Chiaveri (1689–1770) with his judgment in favor of the solution chosen by Bähr.

Honors

In 2011 the Leipzig city ​​council decided to name a street in the south-west of Leipzig after David Schatz. It was named Schatzweg .

Works (selection)

Apple's garden and factory building, around 1720
  • Design and construction of Knauthain Castle near Leipzig, (1700–1705)
  • Design of Apels Garten in Leipzig, (1702–1718)
  • Reconstruction of the Palais Kötteritz in Dresden, (around 1711)
  • probably: Construction of the Hotel de Saxe in Leipzig, Klostergasse 9, (1711 and 1717, demolished in 1968)
  • Construction of the Vorwerk Funkenburg in what was then Frankfurter Allee in Leipzig (around 1712, demolished in 1895)
  • Construction of his own house at Neumarkt 13 in Leipzig, (1712, 1893/94 canceled)
  • Construction of the community center at Katharinenstrasse 22 in Leipzig, (around 1715, destroyed in World War II )
  • Design of the castle park in Zöbigker (today part of Markkleeberg ), (1716–1724)
  • Construction of the Salvator Church in Gera, (1717–1720)
  • Construction of the later so called Martin Luther Church in the Gautzsch district in Markkleeberg, (1718)
  • probably: baroque redesign of the Seckendorff Castle in Meuselwitz , (1724–1727)
  • Burgscheidungen Castle
    Construction of the baroque village church in Calbitz including the old west tower, (1724–1727)
  • Construction of Burgscheidungen Castle in Unstruttal, (1724–1732)
  • Final construction work on Brandis Castle in the Leipzig district, (around 1727)
  • Construction of the Gepülzig Palace near Erlau, (1735–1737, demolished in 1947)
  • Expert opinion on the dome of the Frauenkirche , Dresden, (1738)
  • Construction management for the refurbishment of the court chapel in the Pleißenburg in Leipzig (from 1738, canceled in 1897)
  • Lodersleben Castle (from 1740)

literature

  • Wolfgang Hocquél , Leipzig - Builders and Buildings - From the Romanesque to the Present , Tourist Verlag, Berlin / Leipzig, 1990, ISBN 3-350-00333-8
  • Wolfgang Hocquél (editor), Leipzig , VEB EA Seemann Verlag Leipzig, 1983
  • Nikolaus Pevsner , Leipziger Barock - The architecture of the baroque period in Leipzig , EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1st edition 1990, reprint of the edition of the publishing house by Wolfgang Jens, Dresden. 1st edition 1928, ISBN 3-363-00457-5
  • Peter Findeisen, The Castle. In: Hans Berger (ed.), Castle and Park Burgscheidungen im Unstruttal , Union Verlag, Berlin 1975, pp. 35–60, with biography and discussion of the work of David Schatz.
  • Marianne Mehling (editor), Knaur's cultural guide in color Saxony , Droemersche Verlagsanstalt Th. Knaur Nachf., Munich 1991, ISBN 3-426-26488-9
  • Marianne Mehling (editor), Knaurs Kulturführer in Farbe Thuringia , Droemersche Verlagsanstalt Th. Knaur Nachf., Munich 1991, ISBN 3-426-26487-0
  • Andreas Stephainski (editor), time travel - 1200 years of life in Leipzig , Leipziger Verlags- und Druckereigesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-9806625-4-3
  • Thomas Trajkovits, The Saxon master builder David Schatz (1668-1750) - life and work , Sax Verlag Beucha, 1st edition 2003, ISBN 978-3-934544-46-8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Schatz was buried in crypt no. 118 in the old Johannisfriedhof .
  2. ↑ In 1599, for example, the Colditz master builder David Schatz created the pulpit of the St. Nikolai town church in Döbeln.
  3. ↑ Gaetano Chiaveri advised removing the stone dome and replacing it with a lighter one made of wood. George Bähr assumed that the weight of the dome was not only transferred to the eight inner pillars, but also to the outer walls. Today we know that Chiaveri was right in his judgment and that the inner pillars were completely overused.
  4. ↑ Council meeting of May 18, 2011 (resolution no. RBV-822/11), official announcement: Leipzig Official Gazette no. 11 of June 4, 2011, in force since July 5, 2011 and August 5, 2011. Cf. Official Journal No. 16 of September 10, 2011.
  5. ^ The client was the Leipzig merchant Andreas Dietrich Apel .
  6. ^ The principal was the Leipzig postmaster Johann Jacob Kees the Younger.
  7. ^ The client was the Leipzig postmaster Johann Jacob Kees the Younger . In 1745 David Schatz delivered another, in the Rococo style, but not realized design for the redesign of the park.
  8. ↑ In 1723 the first cracks and cracks appeared in the building, the city council criticized the construction and refused to pay David Schatz an additional payment of 134 thalers. The three-aisled baroque building had to be renewed after a fire in 1780; the hood of the west tower that is visible today was built in 1781–1782.
  9. ^ The client was Friedrich Heinrich von Seckendorff .
  10. ↑ The builder Levin Friedrich von der Schulenburg had been in the Savoyard service since 1698 and rose to the position of General Field Master in Sardinia due to his services in the wars against Louis XIV. Nevertheless, he refused to settle permanently in Piedmont and in 1722 bought the manors Burg- and Kleinscheidungen as residence, on whose territory the old renaissance castle Burgscheidungen rose. The east and south wings of the palace were rebuilt, the rest of the complex was modernized. The foreman of this construction project was Johann George Müller.
  11. ↑ David Schatz took over the construction management on behalf of Johann Christoph Knöffel .
personal data
SURNAME Honey, david
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, builder and garden architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1667 or 1668
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1750
Place of death Leipzig