Johann Traugott Lohse

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Johann Traugott Lohse (* May 16, 1760 in Altenhain ; † June 27, 1836 in Schlettau ) was a German builder or architect who is considered a pioneer of Saxon church and factory construction.

Life

Memorial plaque Schlettau Castle

Like his father Christian Lohse, he learned the mason trade . In 1786 he built his own house in Pleißa . He had sold his house in Altenhain in 1785. Although it is not known whether he completed a master builder and artistic training at an architecture school, he later worked as an architect.

The buildings erected by Lohse have typical style elements for him. He placed monumental columns on cube-shaped plinths, which at their ends create a transition to the plinth and the cover plate with bead-like rings. Lohse has stylistically transferred the elements he developed for church construction to his palace-type factory buildings and arranged columns as huge three-quarter columns at the corners of his buildings. Its monumentally designed factory and church buildings are important in the art history of Saxony.

The churches of Reichenbrand (1804–1810) and Grünhain (1808–1812), the tower and interior fittings of the church in Roßwein and the spire at the Annenkirche in Annaberg (1814) are ascribed to Lohse .

The spinning mills of Gebr. Schnabel in Erfenschlag (1808), Clauss in Plaue (1809), Evans in Siebenhöfen (1812), Meinert in Lugau (1812) and the spinning mills in Schlettau (1814 and 1824) were built by him. He and his son-in-law ran a spinning mill in Schlettau under the company name “Lohse & Naumann”. With the design of his own factory, Lohse went new ways with the full cross-shape of the floor plan to improve the power transmission of the drive shafts to the upper factory floor. With its extension in 1824, Lohse introduced another innovation in the factory roof design. With a keel-arch roof shape borrowed from shipbuilding, he dispensed with the installation of supports in the roof area, thereby increasing the usability of the attic.

literature

  • W. Hentschel: From the beginnings of factory construction in Saxony. In: Scientific journal of the Dresden University of Technology, issue 3 (1954)
  • City administration Schlettau (publisher): Festschrift for the first documentary mention of the city of Schlettau 650 years ago. Verlag Bergstrasse, Annaberg, 2001.
  • Stefan Thiele: rural master craftsmen as carriers of architecture and technology - Johann Traugott Lohse and Christian Friedrich Uhlig and their contribution to Saxon art and industrial history between 1790 and 1850. In: Mitteilungen des Chemnitzer Geschichtsverein 80 = NF 19 (2016), p. 84 -107.

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