Johann Adam Soherr
Johann Adam Soherr (born October 12, 1706 in Mannheim ; † September / October 1778 in Lübeck ) was a royal Danish court architect and city master builder in Mannheim and Lübeck and master builder of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.
Life
In 1730, at the age of 24, Soherr became the city architect of his hometown Mannheim. Two years later he went to Copenhagen , where he became a building inspector in 1733. From 1742 he was the Danish court architect under Laurids de Thurah and Nicolai Eigtved . At the beginning of the same year his wife Maria had their son Johann Franz, who was baptized on March 2, 1742 in the St. Petri Church in Copenhagen. In 1745 he led the reconstruction of Jægerspris Castle .
In 1749 he was appointed city architect and construction manager in Lübeck. In 1750 he built the rectory in Behlendorf ( Duchy of Lauenburg district ). Also in 1750 he was commissioned to draft plans for the construction of a windmill. Soherr suggested the Schwansort bastion on the Mühlentorwall and the Kaisertor , which had been traced back to the hull, as locations . At the same time, however, he recommended building a mill that was independent of wind and weather. The council followed this recommendation and decided to have a horse mill built on the "desolate place on the Trave, where a few dilapidated houses" , which was only converted for residential purposes in 1918.
In 1751 Soherr built the brewery and distillery in Ritzerau (Duchy of Lauenburg) and in 1753 the tenant's house, a building with seven window axes and a central dwelling . In the years 1754–1755 he rebuilt the audience hall in the Lübeck town hall (former Hansa hall) and then from 1755 to 1756 the stock exchange hall.
From 1757 to 1763 he had the Peter-Paul-Kirche in Bad Oldesloe built as a rectangular hall church with a retracted choir and two-story galleries. It replaced a dilapidated and heavily repaired medieval church from 1150.
From 1754 to 1756 Soherr built the small castle Bellevue on Einsiedelstrasse in Lübeck for the Lübeck merchant Hieronymus Küsel , a former summer house with a lavishly designed garden and an avenue that once led to the Trave .
In 1761 Soherr was possibly active at the Stockelsdorf manor and from 1761 to 1763 for the councilor Diedrich von Bartels at the manor of the Niendorf estate in what is now Moisling . From 1769 to 1771 he built the new West Tower on the brick - Basilica to Nusse (Duchy of Lauenburg). In 1771 he received an order from the City Council of Lübeck to build the Lachswehr garden restaurant, which still exists today . In 1773 the previously wooden doll's bridge over the Trave in Lübeck was rebuilt from stone for the first time at Soherr's instigation and equipped with figures by Dietrich Jürgen Boy , who ultimately gave the bridge its name.
In the years 1773 to 1775 Soherr built the new manor house on Gut Behlendorf and from 1774 to 1745 drafted the plans for a civil servants' residence and two farm buildings for the builder Johan August Rothe . In 1774 he built the west tower of the old church in Nusse, which was demolished in 1836 . In 1775 he built a new manor house for the Lübeck-Steinrade (now Lübeck-Schönböcken ) estate.
On September 19, 1778, he handed over his office to his son Johann Franz Soherr and died a few days later.
Honors
Johann-Soherr-Strasse was named after him in Lübeck .
literature
- Björn J. Kommer: Johann Adam Soherr. In Lübeck résumés. Neumünster 1993, ISBN 3-529-02729-4 , pp. 375-378.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Soherr, Johann Adam |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Soherr, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German builder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1706 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mannheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1778 or October 1778 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |