Jacob Meyerheine

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Jacob Meyerheine (* probably 1550 in Braunschweig ; † April 29, 1620 in Wolfenbüttel ; also Meirheine, Marheine or Jacob Rademacher ) was a stonemason and stone sculptor of the Renaissance in northern Germany.

Life

Little is known about the life of Jacob Meyerheine. It is believed that he was born in Braunschweig, as his father Jakob Meyerheine's house was in Braunschweig. Grandfather Hennig Meyerheine was the owner of the house from 1530 to 1539, a brewery on the Aegidienmarkt along with a garden and a field in 1606. From 1550 the house was owned by a Jacob Rademacher.

Jacob Meyerheine complained in a letter to the city council of Braunschweig that " his father's house " had been robbed and devastated after the attack by Duke Heinrich Julius and that it was, without his knowledge and permission, in 1608 by had been taken by a citizen. In this letter of November 19, 1616 he describes himself as " Meyerheine different from Rademacher ". So, before moving to the Kaisertor (at today's Holzmarkt) in Wolfenbüttel, he was not only based in Braunschweig, but also owned a house there.

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Main portal of the Juleum in Helmstedt von Meyerheine

From the invoices of the Juleum , the University of Helmstedt , we know of Meyerheine's successful work. There he created his most important works, the portals from 1597 in the style of the late renaissance : “ You can say that the whole thing is not just the masterpiece of Meyerhein, but actually the most beautiful thing that this style introduced from the Netherlands has at all, and not just in Braunschweig created. “One portal leads into the auditorium maximum and the other to the spiral staircase. The portals show rich architectural decorations and sculptures.

Meyerheine created the attics for the exterior and interior portal of the castle in Hesse near Wolfenbüttel .

He worked at the main church and on fortresses in Wolfenbüttel. When building the fortress, he designed the new or Harz gate from 1603. This is attested by two calculations for the middle and inner gate. Furthermore, the west portal of the armory in Wolfenbüttel goes back to him from 1619. The portals on the north and south sides of Wolfenbüttel's main church and other building details are attributed to him through a style comparison with work on the Juleum.

Meyerheine created several tombs: the tomb for Count Christoph von Mansfeld († 1591) in Schraplau and that of Komtur Nikolaus Libstensky von Kolowrat, who died in 1601, in the St. Johannis Church in Süpplingenburg , which is now in the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum .

literature

  • Horst-Rüdiger Jarck (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 8th to 18th centuries , p. 491, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7
  • Paul Jonas Meier : The sculptor's handicrafts in the city of Braunschweig since the Reformation. In: Workpieces from the museum, archive and library of the City of Braunschweig VIII., Appelhans, Braunschweig 1936.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst-Rüdiger Jarck (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 8th to 18th centuries , p. 491, Braunschweig 2006
  2. ↑ J. P. Meier: The artwork, p. 39 (see literature)
  3. ↑ J. P. Meier: The artwork, p. 37 (see literature)
  4. ↑ a b J. P. Meier: The artwork, p. 38 (see literature)
personal data
SURNAME Meyerheine, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meirheine; Marheine; Rademacher, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and stonemason
DATE OF BIRTH around 1550
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1620
Place of death Wolfenbüttel