Giulio Simonetti

Giulio Simonetti (* 1659 in Roveredo ; † May 4, 1729 in Bunzlau ) was a Swiss builder and architect .

life and work

Simonetti was born in Roveredo in the canton of Graubünden in 1659 as the son of the master bricklayer Simone Simonetti . He was a brother of the plasterer and builder Giovanni Simonetti . Like several other members of his family, he learned the building trade. In 1689 he is mentioned as a citizen in Bunzlau in Lower Silesia . The buildings he built include Wehrau Castle in the Bunzlau district , built in 1690 for Count Balthasar Erdmann von Promnitz, and, as his main work, the rebuilding of the Catholic parish church in Bunzlau in 1692 after being destroyed in the Thirty Years' War .

In terms of sacred buildings, he still includes: the Corpus Christi Church (Jesuit Church) in Glogau - built 1696–1702, the extension of the church in Probsthain in the district of Goldberg, as well as alterations to the Protestant church in Sagan and the church in Harpersdorf . In addition, there is the Protestant parish church in Halbau, built in 1725 . In the field of secular buildings, the riding school of the Knight's Academy in Liegnitz, built in 1709, should be mentioned. Simonetti died in Bunzlau in 1729.

See also

• Knight Academy (Liegnitz)

literature

• Konstanty Kalinowski: Baroque in Silesia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1990.
• Max Pfister: master builder from Graubünden - pioneer of the baroque. Publishing house Bündner Monatsblatt, Chur 1993.
• Cesare Santi: Giulio Simonetti. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . June 25, 2013 , accessed March 4, 2020 .
• Simonetti, Giulio . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 73 .
• Arnoldo Marcelliano Zendralli: I magistri grigioni. Menghini, Poschiavo 1958.