Gottlieb Benedict Zemisch

Gottlieb Benedict Zemisch (around 1750)

Gottlieb Benedict Zemisch (also: Zehmisch ) (baptized May 21, 1716 in Leipzig ; † March 29, 1789 ibid) was a German tobacco merchant and art patron in Leipzig.

Life

Gottlieb Benedict Zemisch acquired Leipzig civil rights in 1741 and ran one of the largest tobacco shops in Saxony with his brother . At the age of 24 he was a founding member of the initially nameless Masonic Lodge , which later called itself “Aux trois compas” ( To the three circles ).

In 1743 he was one of the 16 citizens of Leipzig, mostly merchants, who founded a private concert company on March 11th, for which 16 musicians paid by this community performed regularly in private rooms in front of invited companies. The Great Concert was born, the forerunner of the Gewandhaus Orchestra , which still names its rights concerts that way today.

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  Gasthof Drei Schwanen around 1800, in which Zemisch had the hall expanded for the great concerts .

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  Zemisch's house on Katharinenstrasse (2012)

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  The Comödienhaus (old theater) built by Zemisch on the Rannische Bastei (1784)

As the audience increased, the hall in the “Zu den Drei Schwanen” inn on the Brühl was rented. Zemisch stood out in particular by having it converted into a concert hall at his own expense . For 30 years this was the home of the concerts, which Zemisch held until 1775.

From 1750 to 1752 he had the master builder Friedrich Seltendorff (1700–1778) build the town house, which still exists today , at Katharinenstraße 21 next to the Romanushaus . It contained living and business premises.

His enthusiasm for art also resulted in the construction of the first new theater building in Leipzig. On the Rann townspeople Bastion, was 1766 again at his own expense, by the Dresden architect Georg Rudolph Fäsch (1715-1787) the Comödienhaus built, the 1868 Old Theater was in 1943 during an air raid the bombs fell victim.

All of this was too much for Zemisch financially. He got into debt so much through his patronage that he had to give up his tobacco shop in 1778, and he also lost his house on Katharinenstrasse, which Adolph Christian Wendler (1734–1794) bought. The Great Concert also ended in the same year - obviously for the same reasons. He had given the comedy house to his wife, who sold it to the city seven years after his death in 1796.

After his bankruptcy , Gottlieb Benedict Zemisch died impoverished in a small apartment at Ranstädter Tor in 1789 .

Honor

In 1910, Gottlieb Benedict Zemisch was named in honor of the Zehmischstrasse in Leipzig- Lößnig .

literature

• Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . 1st edition. PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , pp. 657 .

Web links

• Zemisch, Gottlieb Benedikt. In: Leipzig biography. Retrieved July 24, 2016 . 
• Alexander Süß: Gottlieb Benedikt Zehmisch. In: Website of the Minerva Masonic Lodge on the Three Palms. Retrieved January 30, 2017 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see discussion page
2. ↑ List of members of the Minerva Lodge for the Three Palms for the period 1741–1841. Retrieved August 6, 2016 . 
3. ^ Wolfgang Hocquél : Leipzig. Architecture from the Romanesque to the present . 1st edition. Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-932900-54-5 , p. 50 .
4. ↑ ^{a b} 02 - Altes Theater location. (No longer available online.) In: Stations of the Leipzig sheet music. Archived from the original on September 21, 2015 ; accessed on August 16, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
5. ↑ sales contract. In: Kalliope Association. Retrieved August 6, 2016 . 
6. ^ Otto Werner Förster: The "Great Concert", a Masonic foundation. In: Leipzig research. Retrieved August 16, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Gina Klank, Gernot Griebsch: Lexicon of Leipzig street names . 1st edition. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 228 .