Johann Heinrich Westermann

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Johann Heinrich Westermann (* 1678 ; † 1726 ) was a German architect .

Life

Johann Heinrich Westermann was the son of the construction clerk and master builder Brand Westermann , who worked in Hanover . At the time of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, he worked in the building management of the Hanoverian court from around 1705, initially as an assistant, later as his father's successor.

From 1712 Westermann worked as an architect at the Göhrde hunting lodge .

Wesermann was also involved in the construction of Montbrillant Castle near Hanover.

When the orangery gardener Anton Spanuth , who worked in the Great Garden of Herrenhausen , left the company , Westermann and the gardener Johann Konrad Weffer, who worked at the kitchen garden in Linden , took up the inventory of the Herrenhausen orangery - to hand it over to Spanuth's successor, Heinrich Jakob Löppentin .

In 1724 Johann Heinrich Westermann retired. He died in 1726.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ n.v . : Westermann, Johann Heinrich in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library [undated], last accessed on February 21, 2020
  2. ↑ a b Helmut Knocke : Westermann, (1) Brand , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 386
  3. ↑ a b c d e Wilhelm Rothert : Anthony, Asm. , in ders .: General Hannoversche Biographie , Volume 3: Hannover under the Kurhut 1646–1815 . Sponholtz, Hannover 1916, p. 477
  4. ^ Herbert Westermann: Brand Westermann. A contribution to the history of the Hanoverian Baroque , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 28 (1974), Issues 1 and 2, pp. 51–120; here: pp. 107, 115; limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME Westermann, Johann Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION builder
DATE OF BIRTH 1678
DATE OF DEATH 1726