Johann Moritz Richter (architect, 1647)

Johann Moritz Richter the Elder J. (baptized April 1, 1647 in Weimar ; buried May 17, 1705 in Jena ) was a German architect and town planner .

family

Richter came from a well-known Thuringian master builder family. His father Johann Moritz Richter d. Ä was already a builder and architect. On January 20, 1673 Johann Moritz married Richter the Elder. J. Maria Dorothea Zapf, the daughter of his godfather Nicolaus Zapf, in the Zeitz castle church . Richter's son Johann Adolph Richter (1682–1768) was also a well-known master builder. He was involved in the construction of the Belvedere Palace in Weimar .

plant

After Johann Moritz Richter had planned a modern belt of fortifications for the Heldrungen fortress from 1664 onwards , after the death of his father in 1667 he took over his office as Weimar master builder and the work on Moritzburg Castle in Zeitz and Neu-Augustusburg Castle in Weißenfels . In Weißenfels, Johann August von Leitzsch, the commander of the fortresses Heldrungen and Querfurt, was in front of him, who had a strong influence on the plans. The baroque royal house was also built there in 1673, probably according to Richter's plans. In any case, he is entered in a tax register there in 1688 as the property owner. When Duke Christian commissioned the builder Christian Wilhelm Gundermann in Eisenberg in 1677 to build a new castle with a castle church , he called in the then Saxon-Thuringian chief architect Richter.

From 1684 Johann Moritz Richter worked at the margravial court in Bayreuth. On behalf of Christian Ernst von Brandenburg-Bayreuth , from 1686 he planned Erlanger Neustadt as a baroque "ideal city" in the form of a compact rectangular city layout. He also created the plans for the newly built Huguenot church there . The place where today's Goethestrasse meets Heuwaagstrasse, which has been implemented according to the plan, is named "Richter'sches Eck" after the master builder. From 1689, on behalf of Albrecht Anton von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt , Richter directed the reconstruction of the lower church in Bad Frankenhausen and planned the Rathsfeld hunting lodge .

literature

• Hans Heinrich Haubach: The Weimar artist family Richter. In: Correspondence sheet of the general association of German history and antiquity associations , 69th year 1921, p. 112 ff.
• Martin Schieber: Erlangen. An illustrated history of the city. CH Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-48913-3 .