Johann Friedrich Künnecke

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Bothmer Castle; Main work by JF Künnecke
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Johann Friedrich Künnecke , also Künneke or Kuenneck (place of birth and year unknown; † on April 27, 1738 in Neustadt (Mecklenburg) ) was a builder working in Mecklenburg .

Little is known about his biographical data, neither his origins nor stations of his training have been passed down. It is believed that he came from the Hanover area and possibly studied architecture in the Netherlands and England . In his later years he lived in Arpshagen and Neustadt [-Glewe], where he died in 1738. His grave was lifted together with the cemetery of the Neustädter Church in 1796.

His work can be traced for the first time around 1725 in the service of Count Hans Caspar von Bothmer , for whom he worked on the Christinenfeld and Grundshagen estates at Klütz . His main work was the manor Bothmer mansion in northwest Mecklenburg, built from 1726 to 1732, commonly referred to as Bothmer Castle , which is one of the largest baroque complexes in northern Germany. He was also responsible for the construction of the Klützer rectory near the manor house. Around 1731 Künnecke entered into lively correspondence with the Mecklenburg Duke Christian Ludwig II , for whom he built the hunting lodge in Klenow from 1731 to 1735, the predecessor of the later Ludwigsluster Palace , and the associated garden, which is still preserved in its basic structure.

Künnecke married Anna Dorothea Strübing from Güldenhorn on February 11, 1728 in Klütz (today a district of Klütz under the name Christinenfeld ).

Literature and Sources

  • Carsten Neumann: The work of the architect Johann Friedrich Künnecke in Mecklenburg. Master's thesis University of Greifswald, Greifswald 1996.
  • Carsten Neumann: Bothmer Castle. Kai Homilius Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-931121-29-1 .
  • Carsten Neumann, Geert Grigoleit: Bothmer Klütz Castle. Nordwest-Media, Grevesmühlen 2002. (3rd edition. Grevesmühlen 2006, ISBN 3-937431-33-0 )
  • Hermann Heckmann : Builder of the Baroque and Rococo in Mecklenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, Hamburg. Verlag Bauwesen Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-345-00692-8 , pp. 50–54.
  • Frank Burmeister; Christine Mark: Bothmer Castle in Mecklenburg. Origin, change and vision. 1st edition. Nordwest-Media, Grevesmühlen 2006, ISBN 3-937431-31-4 .
  • Carsten Neumann: Thoughts on the original room allocation in the Bothmer mansion in Klütz. In: KulturERBE ​​in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. Volume 6, Schwerin 2011, ISBN 978-3-935770-34-7 , pp. 49-66.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Buried on April 28, 1738
  2. ^ Franz Schubert [Hrsg.]: Copulation register from Mecklenburg church registers from 1705 to 1750. Part G, volume 2, p. 112 (= Klütz parish, marriage entry no. 924). The church book names "* i. Lüneburgischen" as the place of birth / origin of the groom .

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SURNAME Künnecke, Johann Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Künneke, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German builder
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century or 18th century
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1738
Place of death Neustadt (Mecklenburg)