Hamburg temple model
The Hamburg temple model is a baroque architectural model of the Solomon temple . It has a floor area of over 12 m² and is made of wood. The square four-wing complex comprises nine inner courtyards , two of which are combined in the central axis . This is where the actual sanctuary is located, the Israelite temple of King Solomon .
It was commissioned between 1680 and 1692 by the Hamburg councilor and opera tenant Gerhard Schott and is now back in Hamburg in the Museum of Hamburg History .
The model was first exhibited in the Hamburg Opera . It was brought to London by Schott's heirs to find a buyer . It was also exhibited there and eventually acquired by an agent of Augustus the Strong . In 1732 it was brought to Dresden, where it was shown in the Zwinger as part of the Judaica collection. After the restructuring of this collection at the beginning of the 19th century, the model finally came to the Museum of Hamburg History in 1910 through several owners.
Schott's model is in the tradition of numerous attempts at reconstruction in the Renaissance and Baroque periods, which sought to approximate the original form of the temple described in the Bible based on theological , biblical or architectural considerations. While most of the experiments were published independently in written or graphic form, Schott's model is not original. The Hamburg model follows the model of the Spanish Jesuit Juan Bautista Villalpando from 1604, which in turn is based on the temple vision of the prophet Ezekiel .
The actual motivation for the production of the expensive and complex model is still unclear. The temple model has been restored several times in the course of its history. In the last restoration campaign, which was completed in 2015, it turned out to be a particular difficulty that highly toxic wood preservatives had been used in earlier measures, so extensive protective measures had to be taken for restorers and museum visitors.
Floor plan of the Hamburg model. With the exception of the missing external gallery, corresponds to the floor plan from Juan Bautista Villalpando: In Ezechielem Explanationes , 1604.
Facade structure of the building wing
patio
The central building with the sanctuary
Web links
- The model of the Temple of Solomon at the Hamburg Museum (Youtube video)
literature
- Michael Korey: The Temple of Salomonis in the Dresden Zwinger, facets and reflections of a baroque architectural model . Dresdener Kunstblätter. 4/2009. Pp. 48-59. ISSN 0418-0615 ,
- Michael Korey and Thomas Ketelsen (eds.): Fragments of Memory. The Temple of Salomonis in the Dresden Zwinger; Facets and reflections of a baroque architectural model and an early Jewish museum , Berlin, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2010. ISBN 978-3-422-07019-6
- Gisela Jaacks : Image and symbol, the Hamburg model of the Temple of Solomon . Hamburg: Museum of Hamburg History, 1982.
- Gisela Jaacks: Hamburg zu Lust und Nutz, bourgeois understanding of music between Baroque and Enlightenment (1660-1760) , Association for Hamburg History, Hamburg 1997.
- Otto Lauffer: The model of the Temple of Salomonis. in: Annual report of the Museum of Hamburg History for the year 1910 , Hamburg, Gräfe and Sillem 1911. pp. 17–24
- Bernd Vogelsang: "Archaic Utopias", materials for Gerhard Schott's Hamburg "Stage Model" of the Templum Salomonis. o. O. 1981, also Cologne, Univ., Philos. Fak., Diss., 1979
Individual evidence
- ↑ Video about the last restoration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9AEJ65X5Sk