Georg Christoph Sturm

Georg Christoph Sturm (baptized November 23, 1698 in Wolfenbüttel ; buried April 9, 1763 in Braunschweig ) was a German architect of the late Baroque era and the first court architect in Brunswick .

Life

The son of the scholar Leonhard Christoph Sturm attended the Francke Foundations in Halle from 1714 and studied medicine at the University of Halle from 1724 . In 1750/51 he found a job in Braunschweig as an auditor for the princely building administration. Sturm examined drafts of town houses before he successfully submitted his own draft for a town house in Braunschweig in 1751 and in the same year he carried out an appraisal of the spiers of Wolfenbüttel Trinity Church . He was then appointed ducal court architect in 1752; the office was established for the first time. Sturm died in Braunschweig in 1763. His successor in office was Carl Christoph Wilhelm Fleischer .

Works

During his eleven years in office, Sturm designed 72 solid and half-timbered town houses in Braunschweig, some of which are still preserved today.

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  Kohlmarkt 10 in Braunschweig

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  The former old ministry in Braunschweig

literature

• Peter Giesau, Sturm, Georg Christoph in: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon, published on behalf of the city of Braunschweig by Luitgard Camerer, Manfred RW Garzmann and Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf with special assistance from Norman-Mathias Pingel, page 224, Braunschweig, 1992, ISBN 3-926701 -14-5

• Fritz von Osterhausen, Georg Christoph Sturm - the life and work of the Brunswick court architect , Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin, 1978, ISBN 3-422-00691-5