Johann Peter Wachter

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Johann Peter Wachter († 1690 in Hanover ) was a German architect and court builder of the Baroque in Germany .

Life

The Lindener Schloss in the (today's) Von-Alten-Garten , built posthumously from 1698 to 1702 according to Wachter's plans;
Colored postcard , around 1900

Little is known about the life of Johann Peter Wachter. However, from 1665 he was already a royal construction clerk in Heidelberg , and in 1673 he was "Baumeisterei-Adjunktus". In the same year he built, among other things, the barracks on the Friedrichsburg Fortress in Mannheim , and then the Konkordienkirche in 1677 .

From 1681 to 1686 Wachter then worked as the electoral Palatinate chief architect and built - again in Mannheim - in 1684 the "Reformed Double Church" there. However, all of Wachter's buildings in Mannheim were shortly destroyed in 1688 by French troops during the War of the Palatinate Succession .

In 1687 Wachter went to the ducal residence city of Hanover for the first time , then went there again in 1688, in order to succeed Hieronymo Sartorio as the ducal building manager and master builder. However, the specific involvement of Wachter in buildings in Hanover is "little clarified".

Between 1688 and 1689, Johann Peter Wachter completed the construction of the large court theater in the Leineschloss, which had already begun . After a preliminary draft by Duke Ernst August , Wachter developed a plan for Herrenhausen Palace , which "is perhaps identical to a palace plan drawn by Lambert Friedrich Corfey and previously attributed to it ".

For the new palace in Herrenhausen , Wachter's brother, Johann Heinrich Wachter (who stayed in Hanover until 1698 and died in Kassel in 1708 ), apparently produced an elaborate “model of mansion building”.

From 1694–1698, the gallery building based on Wachter's preliminary design was posthumously realized in the first concrete construction step of the unfinished palace complex .

After the preparatory work on the garden theater started or designed by Marinus Cadart , Wachter continued his work on the theater in the Great Garden .

Wachter was the architect from 1698 to 1702 for the Linden Castle , built for Count Franz-Ernst von Platen , in (today's) Von-Alten-Garten .

literature

  • Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biography (in Gothic script ), Vol. 3: Hanover under the Kurhut 1646-1815 ; Hannover: Sponholtz, 1916 (published posthumously by his wife A. Rothert; also contains Rothert's biography), p. 521
  • Eduard Schuster : Art and artists in the principalities of Calenberg and Lüneburg in the period from 1636 to 1727. 1905. Previously published in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . Born 1904, p. 206
  • Thieme-Becker , vol. 35, p. 6
  • Bernd Adam: Baroque architectural models in Northern Germany and their position in the planning process , pp. 385–388, in Maike Kozok (ed.): Architecture - Structure - Symbol. Forays into architectural history from antiquity to the present. Festschrift for Cord Meckseper on his 65th birthday , Petersberg: Imhof, 1999, ISBN 3-932526-52-X , pp. 381–396
  • Bernd Adam: New finds for the baroque expansion of the palace complex in Hanover-Herrenhausen , pp. 66–70, in: Low German contributions to art history , Vol. 40 (2001), pp. 59–97
  • Urs Boeck: Two courtly festival rooms: garden theater and gallery building. In: Marieanne von König: Herrenhausen. The royal gardens in Hanover . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0053-8 , p. 70
  • Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Wachter. In: Hanover Art and Culture Lexicon , passim
  • Helmut Knocke: WACHTER, Johann Peter. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 373 and others; Preview over google books
  • Helmut Knocke: Wachter, Johann Peter. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 651.

Web links

Commons : Johann Peter Wachter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Helmut Knocke: Wachter ... (see literature)
  2. ↑ Bernd Adam: The mansion castle and the historic garden pavilions . In: Marieanne von König (Ed.): Herrenhausen. The Royal Gardens in Hanover , pp. 96–97.
  3. ↑ Helmut Knocke: Linden Castle. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 410

Remarks

  1. ↑ Notwithstanding this, the year of death 1692 is also mentioned; compare the details of the authority data in the database of the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)
personal data
SURNAME Wachter, Johann Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Architect and court builder of the Baroque in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH before 1688
DATE OF DEATH 1690
Place of death Hanover