Hans von Dehn-Rothfelser

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Hans von Dehn-Rothfelser , also Dehn-Rotfelser , actually Dehn (e) der Rothfelser (* 1500 in Wittenberg (?); † June 13, 1561 in Dresden ) was a Saxon court official and building manager of the Renaissance .

Life

Epitaph for Hans von Dehn-Rothfelser in the Ascension Church in Leuben

The son of the electoral Saxon privy councilor Friedrich Dehn-Rothfelser was raised courtly and scientifically and lived as an administrative officer at the Dresden court of the Saxon Duke George the Bearded since the 1530s .

Dehn-Rothfelser soon caused a sensation due to his knowledge of the "knightly arts" and his successful participation in show tournaments. In 1539 he was appointed master armor and master armor of the Saxon court and in 1541 forest master . Then he was bailiff in the Meißnischen district , so in Radeberg (from 1543), Senftenberg and Laußnitz . From 1547 he held the title of "chief architect". In 1548 he traveled to Copenhagen , where King Christian III. wanted to bind to his court. Dehn-Rothfelser returned to Saxony in 1549. There he was raised to the nobility in the same year.

In the early 1550s he bought the manors Schönfeld and Helfenberg east of Dresden from the Saxon elector Moritz . At that time he was in command of the harness chamber, inspector of game damage in the princely forests and supervisor (building manager) of electoral buildings.

Dehn-Rothfelser died in Dresden in 1561 and was buried in the Frauenkirche there. After the old Frauenkirche was demolished in 1722, its epitaph was transferred to the cemetery in the village of Leuben , where it was initially walled up and only rediscovered in 1876. Today it can be seen in the Assumption Church in Leuben .

Dehn-Rothfelser had seven sons and just as many daughters. His son Hans the Younger (* 1537) was Provost of Meißen and later Chancellor in Livonia .

A later descendant was the German architect Heinrich von Dehn-Rotfelser (1825–1885).

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View from the Frauenkirche into the inner courtyard of the Residenzschloss

For centuries, Dehn-Rothfelser was considered to be one of the builders of the Georgenbau of the Dresden residential palace and other electoral palaces. Therefore he was considered an important master builder of the German early Renaissance.

Richard Steche demonstrated in a dissertation in 1877, however, that Dehn-Rothfelser's role in the construction of these buildings was in the organization and construction supervision. However, it is possible and would not be unusual for the Renaissance period for the builders to receive artistic inspiration from the comprehensively educated Intendant Dehn-Rothfelser.

Dehn-Rothfelser was in charge of the construction management for the renovation and new construction of the Dresden Residenzschloss (with the large castle courtyard, the secret custody, the wing later known as the Green Vault and the castle chapel ). In the years 1542–1546 he led the construction work on the hunting lodge in Moritzburg (the predecessor of today's Hubertusburg Palace ), from 1543 to 1546 on behalf of Duke Moritz von Sachsen the conversion of Radeberg Castle to the Klippenstein Hunting Lodge , from 1543 the conversion of Senftenberg Castle , from 1555 the conversion of his own castle Schönfeld into a palace, 1554–1558 the construction of the hunting lodge Grillenburg near Tharandt . Builders such as Caspar Voigt von Wierandt , Bastian Kramer , Hans Kramer and Paul Buchner worked under him .

For the completely new construction of the fortress structures around Dresden under Duke Moritz and his successor, Elector August , Dehn-Rothfelser assumed more creative responsibility than for the palace.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Magirius: The palace buildings of the Elector Moritz . In: Court and court culture under Moritz von Sachsen (1521–1553). On behalf of the Association for Saxon State History. Ed .: André Thieme and Jochen Vötsch with the collaboration of Ingolf Gräßler. Sax-Verlag Beucha 2004.

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personal data
SURNAME Dehn-Rothfelser, Hans von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dehne der Rothfelser, Hans von; Dehn der Rothfelser, Hans von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon court official and building manager of the Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH 1500
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1561
Place of death Dresden