Johan August Rothe

Johan August Rothe , also Johann August Rothe , (* 1734 in Altenburg , Thuringia , † after 1801 probably in Hamburg ) was a German carpenter, carpenter and builder .

Life

The businessman Heinrich Carl Graf von Schimmelmann (1724–1782), who was considered the richest man in Europe at the time, brought Rothe to Ahrensburg in Holstein in 1757 and commissioned him in 1760 to build a brewery .

Subsequently, Rothe was responsible for the interior construction of Schimmelmann's Castle Ahrensburg , which was extensively rebuilt from 1766 by his Saxon compatriot, the builder Carl Gottlob Horn (1734–1807). Like Rothe, Horn was only in Schimmelmann's service at that time.

With his earnings, Rothe bought the Reinfeld Castle, which had been administered by the Danish Crown since 1761, for demolition for 5001 thalers . Some of the demolition material was used in Lübeck to build the Puppenbrücke . In Reinfeld he built a civil servants' residence and two farm buildings in the years 1774–1775 based on designs by Lübeck's city ​​master builder and building yard master Johann Adam Soherr (1706–1778). But in 1785/1786 he had to file for bankruptcy.

On January 12, 1786, Rothe was commissioned to build the new St. Nicolai Church in Wöhrden ( Dithmarschen ), which, now built in baroque style, was inaugurated on September 21, 1788. Then in 1790 he built the "Chapel of the Holy Cross" in Altenwalde near Cuxhaven .

From 1797 Rothe lived in Hamburg, where he received citizenship in 1801 .

literature

• Hermann Heckmann : Builder of the Baroque and Rococo in Mecklenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck and Hamburg , Verlag Bauwesen, Berlin 2000