Johann Conrad Schlaun

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Portrait of Johann Conrad Schlaun around 1760/1770
The memorial for Johann Conrad Schlaun in Nottuln
Memorial plaque on the tomb of Johann Conrad Schlaun in the parish church Liebfrauen-Überwasser in Münster (Westphalia)

Johann Conrad Schlaun (born June 5, 1695 in Nörde in the Paderborn bishopric ; † October 21, 1773 in Münster as Johann Conrad Schluen ) was a German builder , architect and baroque military man .

Life

Schlaun is one of the most important architects of the German baroque. He first attended the then Progymnasium Marianum in Warburg and then the Gymnasium Theodorianum in Paderborn. Then he was in the service of the Paderborn infantry regiment . Paderborn was linked by the Cologne elector Clemens August I of Bavaria in personal union with the duchy of Münster . Schlaun switched to the military service of the Bishop of Munster. The connection between his military career and his work as an architect was quite common in the Baroque era, as the example of Johann Balthasar Neumann , with whom he worked from 1720, shows. Between 1722 and 1742 he made several long trips to Italy, France and southern Germany. In 1729 Clemens August appointed him his land engineer, and he also became major general of the artillery in Münster. Its characteristic physiognomy can be traced back to the immune disease rosacea .

His home, the prince-bishopric of Paderborn, and his adopted home of Münster owe some of their most beautiful buildings to him. The combination of sandstone with red clinker brick and white, multiple-subdivided windows, which Schlaun repeatedly uses, is often referred to as the “Westphalian Symphony”.

Johann Conrad Schlaun lived until his death in the town house he designed on Hollenbecker Straße in Münster, which was a victim of World War II. He is buried in the parish church of Liebfrauen-Überwasser in Münster. The exact location of his burial place is not known.

His birthplace in the Warburg district of Nörde was demolished in the 1970s in disregard of the monument protection.

family

Johann Conrad Schlaun comes from the respected bourgeois family of the Schlaun or Sluyn or Sloun. The various branches of the family come from Geseke, Osnabrück, Rüthen, Ahden, Hildesheim, the Trier area and even from Holland. Their marriage policy forms an almost closed circle, so that the same families were related by marriage to each other again and again. However, Henricus Schluen, Johann Conrad's father, already lived at a distance from the Schlaun family. You probably had family connections with the Osnabrück tribe of the Schlaun.

From Schlaun's first marriage to Maria Katharina, b. Bourell concluded:

  1. Maria Anna Gertrud
  2. Mary Magdalene
  3. Clemens August Johannes Bernardus Erasmus Franciscus (born June 27, 1726)

In his second marriage he was with Anna Katharina, geb. Rehrmann married. From this marriage emerged:

  1. Martin Conrad (* 1741; † November 26, 1809), thesaurary from 1791–1809
  2. Gerhard Mauritz , Austrian General Feldzeugmeister
  3. Maria Anna Catharina
  4. Maria Antonette

Some buildings

Special stamp for the 300th birthday with the Clemenskirche in Münster

Muenster

Other

Unsafe or incorrectly attributed works

  • the Johanneskapelle in Rietberg was for a long time attributed to Schlaun. In 1973, doubts arose about Schlaun's authorship, which could be substantiated in 1978. It was built according to plans by a master builder from Brno, probably Mauritz Grimm (1699–1757).
  • the garden house on Haus Venne in Drensteinfurt
  • St. Anna Chapel in Ostbevern

literature

  • Josef Bieker, Ulrike Romeis, Ulrich Wollheim: Westphalian Baroque. In Johann Conrad Schlaun's footsteps (= a journey in pictures. ). Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-89234-606-2 .
  • Klaus Bussmann , Florian Matzner , Ulrich Schulze (eds.): Johann Conrad Schlaun. 1695-1773. Late Baroque architecture in Europe. Oktagon, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-927789-78-X (exhibition catalog, Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichtek, May 7 - August 6, 1995).
  • Klaus Bussmann:  Schlaun, Johann Conrad. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 29 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Hans Galen (Ed.): Johann Conrad Schlaun in Münster. Regensberg, Münster 1995, ISBN 3-7923-0680-8 .
  • Heinz Peters: Johann Conrad Schlaun. A contribution to his work in Nievenheim. In: Düsseldorfer Jahrbuch. Vol. 47, 1955, ISSN  0342-0019 , pp. 235-253.
  • Theodor Rensing: Johann Conrad Schlaun. Life and work of the Westphalian baroque master builder (= Westphalian art . ). 2nd, revised edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich ao 1954.
  • Ulrich Schulze, Florian Matzner : Johann Conrad Schlaun. 1695-1773. The complete work. 2 volumes. Oktagon, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-927789-79-8 .
  • Geseker Heimatblätter No. 183: Contribution to the family history of the baroque master builder Johann Conrad Schlaun , August 1974, volume 32, p. 113 ff.

Web links

Commons : Johann Conrad Schlaun  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Internet portal 'Westphalian History'. March 25, 2014, accessed June 14, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Gerlinde Gukelberger-Felix: Rosacea : Curse of the Celts. In: Spiegel Online . December 15, 2014, accessed December 29, 2014 .
  3. ^ Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe / LWL: Painting: Birthplace of the Baroque master builder Johann Conrad Schlaun (* 1695, + 1773) in Nörde on the northern boundary of Warburg. In: Archive number 05_9625 (photographer has not survived). LWL, accessed August 2, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Klaus Scholz: The Abbey Old Cathedral St. Pauli in Münster. Walter de Gruyter, 1995, ISBN 978-3-11-014533-5 , p. 342. Limited preview in the Google book search
  5. ↑ About us on the Park Hotel Wienburg website.
  6. ↑ Schlaun built the Mauritz rectory. Westfälische Nachrichten , accessed on October 27, 2014
  7. ↑ Former dye works ( Memento from July 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: eupen.be
  8. ↑ arnsberg-info.de: Hirschberger Tor .
personal data
SURNAME Schlaun, Johann Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German builder of the baroque
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1695
PLACE OF BIRTH North
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1773
Place of death Muenster