Hans Kramer (master builder)

Hans Kramer (* before 1550; † 1577 in Weichselmünde ) was a German stonemason and fortress builder of the Renaissance who worked in Dresden and Danzig .

Life

From 1554 to 1565 he was court stone mason at the court of the Elector of Saxony in Dresden, succeeding his father Bastian Kramer, who worked there from 1527 to 1553. He took part in the renovation of Moritzburg Castle near Dresden (until 1556) and built the castle chapel in the style of the Italian Renaissance from 1554–1555. Over the next few years , Kramer , who worked under the fortress builder Caspar Voigt von Wierandt , rebuilt the old Dresden Frauenkirche , and also worked on the Wittenberg Castle and the town hall of Torgau .

After successful work in Saxony, he applied for the position of master builder of Danzig, where he took over this post on May 12, 1565. His first work in Gdansk was the design of the Green Gate (until 1568), erected by the Regnier from Amsterdam . Kramer then built three town houses: Dirk Lylge's house at Brotbänkengasse 16, later called Englisches Haus , the Löwenschloss at Langgasse 35 and Kaspar Göbel's house at Langen Markt 39, which was rebuilt in the 18th century. At the same time he expanded the Danzig fortresses, including the Karren Bastion, then the earth wall between this bastion and the Elisabeth Bastion, with a gap being provided for the High Gate, which was built later . 1574–1576 he built the middle part of the High Gate with a double passage, which included the Peinkammertor .

Hans Kramer fell on the walls of the Weichselmünde fortress in the summer of 1577 during the siege by King Stephan Báthory .

literature

• Jadwiga Habela: Jan Kramer (? –1577), architect i fortyfikator gdański , in: Zasłużeni ludzie Pomorza XVI wieku , Gdańsk 1977, pp. 82–87.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert Bruck: The Sophienkirche in Dresden, its history and its art treasures . Paderborn, ISBN 978-3-8460-2366-2 , p. 19 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book Search - reprint of the original from 1912).