Heinrich Klünder

Heinrich Klünder (* 1604 or 1606 ; buried on July 19, 1678 in Glückstadt ) was a German builder.

Life

Klünder's origin is not sufficiently documented. There are disagreements regarding the year of his birth: in a testimony in a legal dispute on November 15, 1652, he said he was born in 1606. Another court record, dated August 11, 1641, states that he was 37 years old at that time. Thus the year of birth 1604 would also be possible.

Heinrich Klünder was married twice. His first wife of unknown name was buried on September 17, 1670. On August 27, 1672, he married Anna Fehders for the second time (buried on April 11, 1676 in Glückstadt ), whose first husband Picke Fehders from Itzehoe had died. Further information on the family situation is not known. Since he sold a house in Kremper Strasse to his son-in-law named Ulrich Schröder in 1641, he probably had a daughter.

If necessary, Klünder came to Glückstadt with Willem van Steenwinckel . Van Steenwinckel worked here as a builder of the Glückstadt Palace , Klünder helped there as a “master craftsman”. From 1631 he worked as a master bricklayer in Glückstadt, where he took the oath on January 2, 1632. In the same year he bought a house on Fleth for a fee of 950 marks, and six years later a house in Kremper Strasse from M. Bars for 600 marks. He acquired another building on Fleth in 1641 from Luna Nunes for 4,000 marks and a year later sold a property on this street to Moises Gideon Abundiente. Based on these deals, it can be assumed that he was economically successful.

From 1637 to at least 1666 Klünder officiated as the elder man of the masons. In 1640 he had ten employees. From 1642 to 1647 he sat as a deputy of the evangelical nation in the college of eight men. His name can be found in the "Designation of those interested in the Icelandic trade". In 1643 Klünder acted as a deputy and was therefore considered a building and paying citizen and twelve man of the fire and rifle guild, of which he became the senior man in 1648. From 1647 he was a member of the parish council of Glückstädter Stadtkirche .

Buildings

Klünder probably only built on behalf of the public; Work for private individuals is not documented. His name can be found in contracts, arbitration awards, invoices, and receipts. From 1656 he carried the title of royal building councilor. After work on Glückstadt Castle, he and Gebhard Titken created the octagonal castle on the southern mole of the entrance to Glückstadt Harbor in 1636. Also with Titken, he concluded a contract with Oberdeichgraf Mathias Tipotius on February 28, 1640. Together with other helpers, the bricklayers were supposed to build a fortification wall on the Rethhövel, which was to be 170 rods long. On February 26, 1641, an arbitration tribunal decided on Klünder's remuneration and his claims against Tipotius and Titken.

In 1645 Christian von Pentz and the bailiff Johann Freitag commissioned the builder Klünder with construction work on the Kremper Tor and several other construction and fortifications. In a "protocollum Commissionale" from 1646 it can be read that Klünder 1351 Rtl. 38 ß demanded.

After the natural disaster in Holstein in 1648 had largely destroyed the Evangelical City Church of Glückstadt, Klünder took over the reconstruction in 1650/51 for 9,000 marks. He also made drafts for the renovation of the destroyed Pinneberg Castle . Together with building scribe Peter Sieken, he presented two drawings to Ernst Albrecht von Eberstein on April 10, 1662. He put the expected costs at 7,995 Rtl. 16 ß. Friedrich III. received the plans on April 15, 1662, but the construction work was not carried out.

literature

• Rudolf Jaeger: Klünder, Heinrich . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 2. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1971, pp. 187-189