Johann (I.) von Pasqualini

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Johann (I.) von Pasqualini , also Johann von Pasqualini the Elder , (* around 1535 probably in Buren ; † 1581/82 probably in Orsoy ) was an Italian architect and builder.

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Johann von Pasqualini was a son of the architect Alessandro Pasqualini and Elisabeth Schouten. His brother Maximilian von Pasqualini also worked as an architect.

There is evidence that von Pasqualini initially worked as an assistant to his brother in Hambach and Sittard . He gained an excellent reputation at a young age. In 1560 he worked for Duke Christoph von Württemberg in Schorndorf . He probably spent the years from 1562 to 1565 traveling. He then worked in Kleve and the county of Mark , where he was supposed to relieve his brother, who was the state house master. In 1565 he took over the management of the extensions Orsoy to the national fortress with five bastions. He settled in the city, bought a house and probably married there after 1570 Katharina de Vall (1558–1624), with whom he had two daughters.

Maximilian von Pasqualini died young in 1572. Johann von Pasqalini then continued the work of his deceased brother and also worked as state master in the Duchy of Jülich-Berg . Duke Wilhelm V officially appointed him in 1573. His brother had set up a law firm in Kleve, which was expanded by Pasqualini. He created a gallery corridor that led from this house to Kleve Castle . From his residence in 1568 he took care of the construction of a bastion in Wesel .

Von Pasqualini worked for Duke Wilhelm V in Grevenbroich , Hambach, Jülich and Sinzig . In Jülich, he designed a magnificent aristocratic residence around 1575 on behalf of Johann von Reuschenberg . He was in close contact with Haus Arensberg. On behalf of Johann de Ligne and his wife Margarethe von Marck-Arenberg, he was in charge of expanding the headquarters in the Eifel in the 1560s.

There is evidence that von Pasqualini was again active in Schorndorf in 1567 and probably lived briefly in Stuttgart . Shortly thereafter, the Duke of Württemberg placed him as an advisor to Georg Friedrich von Brandenburg-Ansbach at the Plassenburg . In 1574 he received a call to Wolfenbüttel , which Julius von Braunschweig-Lüneburg wanted to make an ideal city at the time . It could be that, as part of this activity, von Pasqualini also gave advice to Erich II of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , who had the Landestrost fortress built in Neustadt am Rübenberge .

Von Pasqualini also stayed briefly in Alsace, where the royal seat of Pfalzburg was built from 1568 on behalf of Count Palatine Georg Hans von Veldenz-Lützelstein from Einartzhausen , and Pasqualini was one of the builders for the construction. In 1579 he planned a hill in front of Maastricht on behalf of the Duke of Alba .

None of the structures and fortifications planned and carried out by Pasqualini exist today. It is unclear how large his part in the plans of the individual building projects was in detail.

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SURNAME Pasqualini, Johann (I.) von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pasqualini, Johann the Elder of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian architect and builder
DATE OF BIRTH around 1535
PLACE OF BIRTH Buren , Gelderland
DATE OF DEATH 1581 or 1582
Place of death Orsoy