Johann David Weidner
Johann David Weidner (born March 8, 1721 in Bürgel , † June 23, 1784 in Gotha ) was a German Baroque architect .
Life
Weidner Weimar Saxony-country Oberbaudirektor occurred was 14 years old when Gottfried Heinrich Krohne to a six-year apprenticeship. After its end, he was taken on as a construction manager in the service of Duke Ernst August I of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach in 1742 and worked in the following years on numerous prestigious buildings by his former teacher Krohne, whose most important student he is.
In 1750 Weidner was appointed building manager and in 1751 changed to Duke Friedrich III as building inspector . from Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg in Gotha. In this function he was assigned to the building director Friedrich Joachim Stengel at the beginning of 1752 , who, after Gottfried Heinrich Krohne's departure , had been entrusted with the management of the Gotha Orangery, which he started in 1747 . When Stengel asked for his dismissal from service in April 1752, Weidner was taken over by Friedrich III. entrusted with the construction management of the gardens and in the same year received the supervision of the entire Gothic building industry.
Due to the delays in the construction work caused by the Seven Years' War , Weidner, who was appointed Ducal Gotha master builder in 1754, was not able to complete the work on the orangery, which was completely planned by his former teacher Krohne, until 1774.
Weidner's main work, the new construction of the St. Michaelis town church in Ohrdruf, was built between 1754 and 1760 . In 1781, Weidner designed the expanding wing structures for Friedrichsthal Palace , opposite the Gotha Orangery , which, however, was not carried out until 1793 by his son Friedrich David Weidner (1757–1825).
Weidner died in 1784 in Gotha, where he at the age graveyard called cemetery I was buried. His grave disappeared when the cemetery was cleared in 1904.
family
Weidner's son Frederick David Weidner in the 1780s was as construction Conducteur employed by the Saxony-Gotha Hofbauamt.
Buildings
Weidner designed the following buildings or worked on them as site manager:
- Marksuhl Castle in Marksuhl (reconstruction 1741–1744)
- City palace in Eisenach (built 1742–1748)
- Rococo castle Dornburg (new building 1746/47)
- Allstedt Castle (renovation 1746/47)
- Rühler Häuschen near Ruhla (1748)
- Church of St. Michaelis in Ohrdruf (built 1754–1760)
- Michaelis School in Ohrdruf (built 1754/55)
- Northern greenhouse of the orangery in Gotha (built 1758/59)
- Ehrenstein Castle in Ohrdruf (reconstruction of the west wing 1760–1764)
- Church of St. Maria Magdalena in Langenhain (built 1763–1766)
- "Orange House" of the orangery in Gotha (built 1766–1769)
- Church of St. Blasius Zella-Mehlis (built 1768–1774)
- Head gardener's house next to the orangery in Gotha (built 1773)
- Page and guard house at Friedenstein Castle in Gotha (built 1779)
gallery
St. Blasii, Zella-Mehlis
Tower of St. Michaelis, Ohrdruf
St. Maria Magdalena, Langenhain
Michaelis School, Ohrdruf
"Orange House", Orangery Gotha
Northern greenhouse, Orangery Gotha
City Palace, Eisenach
Rococo castle, Dornburg
Ehrenstein Castle, Ohrdruf
Marksuhl Castle
literature
- Hartmut Ellrich : The Gothic master builder Johann David Weidner (1721–1784). In: Gothaisches Museum-Jahrbuch. Vol. 4, 2001, pp. 85-104.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ducal Saxony Gotha and Altenburg court and address calendar to the year 1786. Ettinger, Gotha 1786, p. 11 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weidner, Johann David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Baroque architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1721 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bürgel |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 23, 1784 |
| Place of death | Gotha |