Johann Michael Voit

This article is about the architect. In Schweinfurt there was the organ builder Johann Michael Voit (organ builder) .

Johann Michael Voit (born December 15, 1771 in Ansbach , † October 30, 1846 in Augsburg ) was a German architect and father of the architect August von Voit .

Life

Voit studied mathematics in Erlangen and Göttingen from 1789 , then in Berlin agricultural and hydraulic engineering with Johann Albert Eytelwein and David Gilly . In 1791 he went to the St. Anna Academy in Vienna , in the following years he traveled to northern Italy. When he returned home, he began an internship at the building inspection in Schwabach , and at the same time managed his father's bricklayer business. This was followed by a job as a draftsman at the building management in Ansbach, which was followed by the activity as a Prussian district building manager in Wassertrüdingenconnected. After this place fell to Bavaria in 1807, Voit was initially taken over into Bavarian services, but soon afterwards on leave due to a lack of work. In 1809 he was appointed district building inspector in Ulm, but this was ended after a year when he was retired. This was followed by work as an engineer and geographer when the Bavarian-Württemberg border was newly established in the Paris State Treaty. In 1812 Voit became a provisional district building inspector in Eichstätt , and in 1817 district building inspector for the government of the Upper Danube district in Augsburg . In 1826 he was appointed first class engineer at the Augsburg I building inspection. In 1838 Voit was transferred to Mindelheim as a district engineer . After he retired in 1840, Voit lived in Augsburg until his death.

plant

Voit published various manuals and drafts of samples that are attributed to the revolutionary architecture. The following are to be mentioned:

buildings

• Church, Protestant Cemetery Augsburg (with August von Voit)
• Parish church of St. Pankratius in Aretsried
• Church in Waldberg (Bobingen) (1817)
• Rectory in Kleinaitingen (1829/30)
• Former rectory in Salgen (1831)

drafts

• Design for a prison, 1799
• Design for a theater, around 1810 (?)
• Design for a healing and recreation house
• Input planning for a garden palace, around 1818
• Design for a Fallen Memorial
• Monument draft

Publications

• Handbook of agricultural architecture. 2 parts 1817.
• Addition to general building history. Augsburg / Leipzig no year
• On the creation and transformation of the fields of God into cheerful resting gardens of the departed, Augsburg 1825 (Unchanged reprint: Administration des Protestantischen Friedhofes, Augsburg 1997)
• The art of agriculture in all its main styles. 4 vols. Augsburg 1826-1828.

literature

• H.-J. Kotzur: Notes on the life and work of the architect Johann Michael Voit (1771–1846). Heidelberg 1978
• Matthias Arnold in: Architecture of the 19th Century in Augsburg , Exhibition Catalog, Augsburg 1979, esp. P. 64 a. Pp. 15-19
• Winfried Nerdinger , Klaus Jan Philipp, Hans-Peter Schwarz: Revolutionary architecture, an aspect of European architecture around 1800, exhibition catalog Frankfurt a. M./München 1990, Hirmer Verlag Munich, ISBN 3-7774-5200-9