Johann Friedrich de Münter

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Johann Friedrich de Münter ( baptized March 18, 1659 in Celle ; † August 22, 1693 ibid) was a Duke Braunschweig-Lüneburg master builder and court architect from the Baroque period .

Life

De Münter's little cascade at the hedge theater as a “ water feature behind the theater in the royal garden of Herrnhausen ”;
Engraving by Joost van Sasse , 1725
View of Münter's cascade at the end of the “summer theater terrace”, around 1898;
Postcard No. 381 from Karl F. Wunder , collotype
2009: Digital photo of Münter's water feature at the hedge theater

Johann Friedrich de Münter worked as chief architect in Celle from 1690 until the year of his death in 1693. Also from 1690 he traveled from there several times for long periods to Herrenhausen near Hanover in order to develop a comprehensive concept for the restoration of the then unfinished manor houses water arts of the baroque Great Garden .

After the Herrenhausen fountain master Marinus Cadart had already been dismissed in 1689, under de Münter a new innovation was created by horse-powered gopel works , through which the water from various sources at the beginning of the pipelines could be pumped to elevated tanks, creating a higher pressure in the supply pipes to the water features how fountains, fountains and cascades was reached.

Also from 1690 de Münter developed plans for a bucket wheel on a leash ; Ideas that Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz came up with after him in 1696.

The fundamental renovation of the two mansions high-rise tanks , which had been built before him in 1677 , brought about a significant increase in their performance in 1692: Münter lined the two reservoirs with sandstone, raised the small tank by 1.5 meters and, with a storage height of 4 40 meters can now achieve a significantly higher pressure drop for the then more powerful fountains. Its hydraulic engineering construction lasted for more than a quarter of a millennium until the elevated tanks were leveled in 1956.

In 1692 Johann Friedrich de Münter fell ill before he died in Celle in August of the following year 1693. After de Münter, the hydraulic engineer Pierre Dénis († 1700) hired in Paris was hired as the new fountain master in Herrenhausen at Easter 1694. In Celle, however, Johann Caspar Borchmann succeeded de Münter as court architect in 1696.

Works (selection)

  • 1692: so-called "small cascade" at the southern end of the stage of the hedge theater in the large garden of the Hanover mansion

Münterstrasse

The 1925 scale Münter road , which in the Hanover Herrenhausen district mansions road with the Haltenhoffstraße connects honors the ducal court architect since by their name.

literature

  • Wilhelm Rothert : General Hanoverian biography. Volume 3: Hanover under the electoral hat 1646-1815. Sponholtz, Hannover 1916, p. 509.
  • RWLE Möller : Celle Lexicon. From Abbensen to between. Lax, Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-7848-4039-6 , p. 154.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviating from this, the year 1690 is named as the year of execution of the Little Cascade; compare Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen (text): Großer Garten , in Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Art and Culture Lexicon , new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, Springe: zu Klampen, 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , pp. 138–144; here: p. 143

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Helmut Zimmermann : Münterstraße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover . Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 178; Preview over google books
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Marieanne von König (Ed.): Herrenhausen. The Royal Gardens in Hanover , Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag, circa 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0053-8 and ISBN 3-8353-0053-9 , pp. 47, 70; Preview over google books
  3. ↑ oV : Münter, Johann Friedrich de in the database Niedersächsische people (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxon State Library [no date], as last accessed on 18 April 2017
  4. ^ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen (text): Alte Herrenhäuser Straße , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Art and Culture Lexicon , new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, Springe: zu Klampen, 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , pp. 144ff .; here: p. 145
  5. ↑ Helmut Knocke: Borchmann, Johann Caspar. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 65; online through google books
personal data
SURNAME Münter, Johann Friedrich de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German court architect
DATE OF BIRTH baptized March 18, 1659
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1693
Place of death Celle