Johann Georg Maximilian von Fürstenhoff

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Johann Georg Maximilian von Fürstenhoff (* 1686 in Dresden ; † July 15, 1753 in Dresden) was a Dresden architect and illegitimate son of the Saxon Elector Johann Georg III. and the singer Margherita Salicola .

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Fürstenhoff joined the royal Saxon engineering and pioneer corps in 1709. Here he received his architectural training. In 1714 he was promoted to engineer captain and in 1716 to engineer major. From 1716 he also taught military construction at the Dresden Cadet Institute. From 1745 he headed the corps as lieutenant general.

Works

Fürstenhoff's main works included the reconstruction of the Georgenbau and, until 1730, the Dresden Residenzschloss . From 1723 to 1728 the provision house in Torgau on Kurstrasse was built according to his plans . In 1727 he laid out the avenue in Moritzburg .

From 1720 to 1731 he redesigned the stable building and from 1729 to 1731 built the outside staircase there, which is also called the English staircase. From 1742 to 1747 he rebuilt the Dresden armory , later the Albertinum . Fürstenhoff designed the gates of the Dresden fortifications , for example the front side of the Leipzig Gate on Palaisplatz in 1718 and the reopened Sea Gate in 1747/1748 .

Fürstenhoff designed his residential palace himself in 1740 - it was in front of the Pirnaischer Tor and was destroyed in 1758. The palace had eleven axes and a large triangular gable. The ruins of the palace are depicted on Bernardo Bellotto's sheet of the destroyed Pirnaische Vorstadt .

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  1. Saxon biographies