Johann Heinrich Daniel Holekamp

Johann Heinrich Daniel Holekamp (* in the 18th century ; † after 1826) was a German carpenter , Royal British and Electoral Hanover Court carpenter . Also known as charting architect under the signature J. HD Holekamp senior became known artist was a member of particular generations Hanover active family Holekamp .

Life

Johann Heinrich Daniel Holekamp was the first citizen of the city of Hanover, the Hanover-based on the then newly created and provided as Boulevard Georgstraße as a client a large house was built. For this purpose, in 1792, he had already presented a colored water- color and self-signed pen drawing as a draft of the planned house. The plans drawn up by Holekamp - a 60-foot-wide half-timbered house with a massive facade and strongly protruding corner blocks, gable, mansard roof and high hipped roof - were only issued in autumn 1794.

In February 1795, Holekamp applied for the allocation of a parcel and payment of the subsidies offered by the government for the property on Georgstrasse on the corner of what was then Reitwallstrasse . The master carpenter Holekamp senior is shown on a large Hanover city map from May 1807. with the plot XXV and a building modified according to the report. The building can be found on the "Grundriss von der Georg Straße" drawn by Johann Georg Täntzel in 1807. It was the first residential building ever on the newly created Georgstraße and was later replaced by the Georgspassage .

After the end of the so-called “ French era ”, Holekamp senior delivered a draft for a Waterloomonument in the form of an obelisk , which was not executed, in August 1816 .

Holekamp and his family were among those who, for generations, played leadership roles in the Hanoverian carpentry guild in the old town of Hanover and Calenberger Neustadt , with officials, old masters and new masters, similar to the Weisshaar, Hellmer and - at least at the beginning of the 18th century - families too the Leiseberg family. Their signatures can be found on numerous ex officio customers as proof of work for traveling carpentry journeymen.

Archives (selection)

Archival material by and about Johann Heinrich Daniel Holekamp can be found, for example

• as a colored watercolored pen drawing from 1792 with the signature JHD Holkamp , 22.3 × 30 cm, Lower Saxony State Archives (Hanover location) , archive signature Hann. 93, 44 Hann, No. 30, vol. IV Bl. 239

literature

• We jury, foremen and other masters of the honorable carpentry office in the royal residence city of Hanover, hereby certify ... , craft customers , Hanover: carpenters office, 1826

See also

• List of Hanoverian purveyors to the court

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Helmut Flohr : The Zimmeramt der Alt- und Neustadt Hannover , in ders .: Construction and carpentry in the Calenberger Land: Environment and structure of a craft business in the 1st half of the 19th century , Laatzen-Grasdorf, Langer Brink No. 16: H. Flohr, 1991, pp. 17-22; here: p. 18f.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Title in the catalog of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Harold Hammer-Schenk : Georgstrasse ; Marianne Zehnpfennig: Waterloo Monument , in Harold Hammer-Schenk, Günther Kokkelink (ed.): Laves and Hannover. Lower Saxon architecture in the nineteenth century. (revised new edition of the publication Vom Schloss zum Bahnhof ... ) Ed. Libri Artis Schäfer, 1989, ISBN 3-88746-236-X , here: pp. 246-250 and 295-302; here: p. 227, especially p. 249, 295
4. ^ Harold Hammer-Schenk : Georgstrasse ; in Harold Hammer-Schenk, Günther Kokkelink (eds.): Laves and Hannover. Lower Saxon architecture in the nineteenth century. (revised new edition of the publication Vom Schloss zum Bahnhof ... ) Ed. Libri Artis Schäfer, 1989, ISBN 3-88746-236-X , here: pp. 246–250, especially p. 249.
5. ↑ Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , 1934, Issue 3–4, p. 49; limited preview in Google Book search