Heinrich Overkotte

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Heinrich Overkotte (also Henrich Overkotte , Ovekate ; * in Lemgo ?) Was a German builder of the Weser Renaissance .

In 1602 Count Simon VI. zur Lippe by the master mason Henrich Overkotte zu Lemgo build a house "under the oaks in Brake". It was probably about the no longer existing audience house. A few years earlier (1599–1600) Overkotte was apparently busy building the new abbey in Gandersheim . Here his name "M. Henrich Ovekate" appears together with his master's mark on the lavishly designed front gable. Otherwise nothing has been passed on about the master’s work and further life. Due to the similarity of the Gandersheim abbey gable with some buildings in Lippe, Otto Gaul ascribed several buildings to it. While the art historian was still of the opinion in 1954 that the houses at Mittelstrasse 71 (previously: 40) in Horn and Mittelstrasse 64 in Lemgo also came from Overkotte, he later associated them with Hermann Wulff .

Attributed or verified works

  • 1574/75: Lemgo , Mittelstrasse 40/42
  • around 1590: Bad Salzuflen , Mark 34 (mayor's house)
  • 1599: Herford , Age Mark 8 (destroyed)
  • 1599–1600: Bad Gandersheim , new abbey building
  • 1602: Brake near Lemgo, audience house (destroyed)

Unsafe or copied works

  • 1576: Horn, Mittelstrasse 71 (previously 40)
  • 1580: Lemgo, Mittelstrasse 64
  • 1582–85: Hessisch Oldendorf , Münchhausen-Hof

literature

  • Otto Gaul : Renaissance builder in Lippe. In: Messages from the history of Lippe and regional studies. 23, 1954, ZDB ID 501236-3 , pp. 33-35.
  • G. Ulrich Großmann : Renaissance along the Weser. Art and culture in north-west Germany between the Reformation and the Thirty Years War. DuMont, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7701-2226-7 , pp. 180-181.
  • Herbert Kreft, Jürgen Soenke: The Weser Renaissance. 6th revised and expanded edition. Niemeyer, Hameln 1986, ISBN 3-87585-030-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Sauer: Castle and Castle Brake. 1000 years of building history (=  Lippe studies . Volume 17 ). Institute for Lippe Regional Studies, Lemgo 2002, ISBN 3-936225-07-9 , p. 292 .
personal data
SURNAME Overkotte, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Overkotte, Henrich; Ovekate, Henrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German builder of the Weser Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH before 1574
PLACE OF BIRTH unsure: Lemgo
DATE OF DEATH after 1602