Gerhard Justus Arenhold

Gerhard Justus Arenhold (also: Gerhardus Iustus Arenholdus ; born August 26, 1707 in Hildesheim ; † December 2, 1775 in Hanover ) was a German builder , draftsman and painter and consistorial secretary.

Career

Copper engraving of the Adam Adami tombstone by Christian Friedrich Fritzsch after Arenhold; 1734

1727: "Episcopatus Hildesiensis ...", engraving by RA Schneider after "Gerhard Iust. Arenholdum / Hildesiensem Iur. et Math. Stud. ”based on measurements by Johann Baptist Homann

" Goslar besides the Rammelsberg ", frontispiece to Christoph Andreas Schlüter's work Thorough teaching of hut works ;
Engraving by Georg Daniel Heumann after Arenhold, 1730

Gerhard Justus Arenhold, who was born in Hildesheim in 1707 at the time of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , was first mentioned in preserved sources for the years 1734/1735. Among other things, he studied mathematics and law.

Several etchings and copperplate engravings from the 1830s and 40s, in which Arenhold appears as inventor , draftsman or draftsman of the original , have been preserved and are now kept in graphic collections and copper engraving cabinets. In terms of content, these are portraits, representations of historically significant places and allegories of historical events; a map is also known. Arenhold's works also include depictions of the town hall halls in Münster and Osnabrück , in which the Peace of Westphalia was concluded. He is already mentioned as an engraver for a copper engraving - possibly too early - of the city hall of Utrecht, dated 1713, during the peace negotiations in the War of the Spanish Succession . The map drawn by Arenhold was spread beyond Germany. Copies of the map of the region around the bishopric of Hildesheim are today u. a. kept in the Danish Royal Library and Charles University in Prague . The Prague copy is dated between 1750 and 1780.

Arenhold was since 1735 - working unpaid - "Secretarius supernumerarius" at the Hanover consistory and since 1740 its second secretary. In 1755 he was entrusted with the "Expedition of Building Matters" including accounting, supervision of construction and appraisal of the structural condition of the church buildings. For this he was the first master builder of the consistory to receive a salary of 200 Reichstalers, but not the title of consistory master builder. As part of his activity, Arenhold examined the structural condition of the church in Duingen in 1736 . Administratively, he was involved in the reconstruction of the church in Harpstedt from 1742 to 1747 and in 1751 in the construction of the church in Helstorf and in 1752 the nave in Suderburg . In 1753 he was involved in the construction of the Dreieinigkeitskirche in Kirchwehren and the church in Banteln .

Arenhold took part in the planning and construction of the (third) St. Nicolai Church in Gifhorn . By changing the ceiling construction, he planned a second gallery there in order to increase the number of seats in the church to 2000. As a building material, he decided to use burned bricks instead of the originally planned rubble stones. In 1740 Arenhold went to Gifhorn and in this case took over the construction management himself. When the church was inaugurated on November 8, 1744, the nave cost 9,730 thalers according to Arenhold's accounts. Arenhold was also in charge of construction in 1750 for the new construction of the St. Blasius Church in Großgoltern , where he also made changes to the building plan. In 1771 he made a draft for the new building of the High Church in Predöhl, which was probably still being implemented . In 1754 he prepared an expert opinion on the planned new building of the nave and bell tower of the church in Finkenwerder . Later designs by Arenhold were either no longer implemented or the implementation can no longer be proven.

literature

Thieme-Becker
Stefan Amt: The builders of the Hanover consistory. In: The building management of the Hanover consistory up to the time of Conrad Wilhelm Hase. 1998, pp. 3-4. Building administration Konsistorium Hannover ( https://www.bhb-hannover.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/1998_Bauverwaltung_Konsistorium.pdf )

Web links

Commons : Gerhard Justus Arenhold - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e o. V .: Arenhold, Gerhard Justus as a personal data record in the catalog of the German National Library [undated], last accessed on April 27, 2020
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Mechthild Müller, Ulfrid Müller: Introduction , in this: The churches in Garbsen , part 1: The old churches Altgarbsen, Horst, Osterwald, Ricklingen Castle (= series of publications on city history , volume 5), ed. von der Stadt Garbsen, Kultur- und Sportamt, Stadtarchiv, ISBN 3-9802985-2-3 , 2014, pp. 4–7; here: p. 5; as a PDF document
↑ n.v .: digital portrait index. Photo archive Marburg, 2020, accessed on May 2, 2020 .
↑ Gerhard Justus Arenhod (Inventor), Jacob van der Schley (engraver / draftsman): Peace Agreement after the Thirty Years War, 1733. In: Cultural program May June July August 2019, p. 20. Herzog August Bibliothek, accessed on May 2, 2020 .
↑ Gerhard Justus Arenhold: Munsterischer Conferenz-Saal, where the world-famous Peace of Westphalia, in the years 1643 to 1649, was dealt with and concluded. www.Rijksmuseum.nl, accessed 6 May 2020 (Dutch).
^ Georg Daniel Heumann (Inventor), Gerhard Justus Arenhold (Engraver): View of the Osnabrück conference hall. In: Picture index of art and architecture, picture archive Photo Marburg. Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, 1986, accessed on May 2, 2020 .
^ Georg Daniel Heumann (Inventor), Gerhard Justus Arenhold (Engraver): View of the city hall of Utrecht during the peace conference of 1713. In: Image index of art and architecture, Image archive Photo Marburg. Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, accessed on May 2, 2020 .
^ Gerhard Justus Arenhold: Kort Episcopatus Hildesiensis nec non Vicinorum Statuum delineatio geographica. In: Catalog. Det Kgl. Library, accessed on May 2, 2020 (dansk).
^ Arenhold, Gerhard Justus: Episcopatus Hildesiensis nec non vicinorum statuum delineatio geographica. In: Centrální katalog University Karlovy. Charles University in Prague, accessed on May 2, 2020 (Czech).
↑ ^a ^b Stefan Amt: The builders of the Hanover consistory. In: The building management of the Hanover Consistory up to the time of Conrad Wilhelm Hase, pp. 3–4. Bauverwaltung Konsistorium Hannover, 1998, accessed on May 2, 2020 (German).
↑ top v .: History of St. Nicolai: The third church (new building 1733-1744). In: St. Nicolai Gifhorn. Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church Hanover, accessed on April 27, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Arenhold, Justus Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Arenholdus, Gerhardus Iustus; Arenholdus, Gerhardus Justus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German builder, painter, draftsman and consistorial secretary
DATE OF BIRTH	August 26, 1707
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hildesheim
DATE OF DEATH	December 2, 1775
Place of death	Hanover

[DNB-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e o. V .: Arenhold, Gerhard Justus as a personal data record in the catalog of the German National Library [undated], last accessed on April 27, 2020

[Alte_Kirchen-2] Mechthild Müller, Ulfrid Müller: Introduction , in this: The churches in Garbsen , part 1: The old churches Altgarbsen, Horst, Osterwald, Ricklingen Castle (= series of publications on city history , volume 5), ed. von der Stadt Garbsen, Kultur- und Sportamt, Stadtarchiv, ISBN 3-9802985-2-3 , 2014, pp. 4–7; here: p. 5; as a PDF document

[3] .v .: digital portrait index. Photo archive Marburg, 2020, accessed on May 2, 2020 .

[4] Gerhard Justus Arenhod (Inventor), Jacob van der Schley (engraver / draftsman): Peace Agreement after the Thirty Years War, 1733. In: Cultural program May June July August 2019, p. 20. Herzog August Bibliothek, accessed on May 2, 2020 .

[5] Gerhard Justus Arenhold: Munsterischer Conferenz-Saal, where the world-famous Peace of Westphalia, in the years 1643 to 1649, was dealt with and concluded. www.Rijksmuseum.nl, accessed 6 May 2020 (Dutch).

[6] Georg Daniel Heumann (Inventor), Gerhard Justus Arenhold (Engraver): View of the Osnabrück conference hall. In: Picture index of art and architecture, picture archive Photo Marburg. Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, 1986, accessed on May 2, 2020 .

[7] Georg Daniel Heumann (Inventor), Gerhard Justus Arenhold (Engraver): View of the city hall of Utrecht during the peace conference of 1713. In: Image index of art and architecture, Image archive Photo Marburg. Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, accessed on May 2, 2020 .

[8] Gerhard Justus Arenhold: Kort Episcopatus Hildesiensis nec non Vicinorum Statuum delineatio geographica. In: Catalog. Det Kgl. Library, accessed on May 2, 2020 (dansk).

[9] Arenhold, Gerhard Justus: Episcopatus Hildesiensis nec non vicinorum statuum delineatio geographica. In: Centrální katalog University Karlovy. Charles University in Prague, accessed on May 2, 2020 (Czech).

[:0-10] Stefan Amt: The builders of the Hanover consistory. In: The building management of the Hanover Consistory up to the time of Conrad Wilhelm Hase, pp. 3–4. Bauverwaltung Konsistorium Hannover, 1998, accessed on May 2, 2020 (German).

[11] top v .: History of St. Nicolai: The third church (new building 1733-1744). In: St. Nicolai Gifhorn. Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church Hanover, accessed on April 27, 2020 .