Johann Andreas Hünigen

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Johann Andreas Hünigen (born August 13, 1712 in Kleinsedlitz near Heidenau ; † November 15, 1781 in Zittau ) was a German builder , master carpenter and construction scribe.

Weesenstein Castle, view of the castle chapel and the striking castle tower

Life in Weesenstein

Andreas Hünigen was born on August 13, 1712 in Kleinsedlitz. Orphaned very early, he spent his childhood with relatives in Weesenstein . In 1737 she married in Weesenstein at the age of 25. Under the direction of master carpenter Johann George Schmidt  - a pupil, successor and brother-in-law of council carpenter George Bähr  - he worked on the expansion of the Weesenstein castle chapel in 1736 . This work was probably Hünigen's masterpiece . Later self-employed, Hünigen managed some renovations and new constructions of churches in the Electorate of Saxony . He became the most sought-after master builder and carpenter of that time in Saxony, primarily in the areas around Pirna , Dippoldiswalde and in Upper Lusatia . For some villages, mansions and manor estates , he managed renovations and new buildings and thus shaped rural construction in the regions.

The three-aisled town church St. Nicolai in Pulsnitz from the 16th century was rebuilt after a fire in 1742 according to his plans by 1745. The tower hood was not completed until 1781. As early as 1747, the spire of Weesenstein Castle was built in its current form under the direction of Hünigen . The Lords of Bünau had a two-storey hunting pavilion built in the Weesenstein Park according to his plans in 1750 . From 1754 to 1755 he redesigned a castle room in Weesenstein Castle and under his direction the bridge over the Müglitz and the magnificent garden gates were built in the castle garden.

Presumably he was responsible for the expansion of the church in Rammenau from 1744 to 1749 and the church in Breitenau near Pirna until 1748. He built the village church in Röhrsdorf near Pirna until 1749, a rectangular building with galleries and pulpit altar as well as a roof turret over the crooked hip roof . The village church in Johnsbach near Dippoldiswalde followed in 1750 . From 1749 to 1756 and from 1763 to 1766 the village church in Kittlitz near Löbau was built according to plans by Karl Gotthold von Hund with an oval floor plan . Your frontal western tower was built only from 1772 to 1775. To 1752 he built for the Lords of Nostitz the surge in Niederruppersdorf on the foundations of a previous building burned down again.

Life in Zittau

In 1757 the company moved to Zittau . Extensive reconstruction work awaited there after the Austrians bombarded the city on July 23, 1757. First the Petri-Pauli-Kirche received a new crowning of the tower with a lantern, top and cross. The burnt-out town hall tower was renewed with a pyramid-like tip. In 1760 Hünigen was appointed construction clerk by the Zittau council. Also in 1760 the reconstruction of the late Gothic St. John's Church began , which was completely destroyed in 1757 by Austrian troops in the Seven Years' War . For the church he planned a two-tower front gable end. The reconstruction was delayed several times due to lack of money and construction defects, so that later the builder and architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel was commissioned with the further construction. From 1763 to 1766 he built the castle in Reibersdorf near Zittau for Cabinet Minister Johann Georg von Einsiedel based on plans by Friedrich August Krubsacius . In 1768 he made a design for a new church in Oberoderwitz . Many construction works in the city and its surroundings on mills, walls, water pipes, streams and bridges bear his signature.

In 1774 he was appointed chief construction clerk for the city of Zittau for his services. According to his plans, the new construction of the Zittau town hall began in 1777. Hünigen's buildings were determined by a successful aesthetic profile, which still characterizes the works that have been preserved today. He died on November 15, 1781 in Zittau and was buried on November 22.

After his death, his younger son Johann Georg Hünigen followed him in the office of chief construction clerk.

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  1. ^ Hermann Heckmann: Johann Andreas Hünigen . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
  2. ↑ Hans Eberhard Scholze : Weesenstein Castle. Leipzig 1969.
  3. ↑ Kamenz region: Pulsnitz. In: Dresden-und-sachsen.de. Archived from the original on November 15, 2013 ; Retrieved September 15, 2013 .
  4. ^ Udo Fehrmann: Andreas Hünigen - a Saxon builder. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter . 8/1962.
  5. ^ Zittau and the surrounding area: Klosterplatz, St. Petri & Paul Church, Heffterbau Brunnen Grüner Born, Pfarrstraße. In: Dresden-und-sachsen.de. Archived from the original on September 15, 2013 ; Retrieved September 15, 2013 .
  6. ↑ The building history of the St. Johannis Church (Johanniskirche) in Zittau. Euroregionales Kulturzentrum St. Johannis Zittau eV , archived from the original on February 6, 2013 ; Retrieved September 15, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Lausitzisches Magazin from January 15, 1782, p. 13.
  8. ↑ Lausitzisches Magazin, September 15, 1782, p. 263.
personal data
SURNAME Hünigen, Johann Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hünigen, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German builder
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1712
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleinsedlitz near Heidenau
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1781
Place of death Zittau