Johann Leonhard Prey

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Johann Leonhard Prey (* around 1700 in Gotha ; † December 1, 1757 in Hamburg ) was a German architect and stonemason .

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Prey had been a registered master in Hamburg since 1736. Together with Johann Nikolaus Kuhn he renewed the west facade of the main church Sankt Katharinen and in 1738 received the supervision of the construction of the stone gate bridge . He also prepared numerous reports on behalf of the municipal building yard.

From 1743 he also dealt with church building. He was involved in the construction of the Trinity Church in St. Georg and the tower of the St. Pankratius Church in Ochsenwerder . In 1745/46 he built the St. Petri Church in the east . In addition, from 1751 until his death, he and Ernst Georg Sonnin supervised the new construction of the main church of St. Michaelis . Prey, who brought Saxon and Thuringian style elements into the church architecture, was highly regarded due to his professional skills, although he was long in the shadow of Sonnin, with whom he was at odds. Prey died before the nave was consecrated, which Sonnin had helped Prey to construct with regard to mechanics and theory.

Blüse in the Neuwerker Vorland (1751)

Jonas Haas made copper engravings of the Trinity Church based on drawings made by Prey . Three navigational aids, the Prey for Jacob Schuback anfertigte, created Gottfried Christian and Thomas Albrecht picky eater 1751 three engravings. A fireblood copied in 1979 in the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven is based on a copper engraving by Neuwerker Feuerblüse .

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A street in Winterhude has been named Preys since 1907 .

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SURNAME Prey, Johann Leonhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and stonemason
DATE OF BIRTH around 1700
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1757
Place of death Hamburg