Jonas Erikson Sundahl

Jonas Erikson Sundahl

Jonas Erikson Sundahl (born April 11 or 16, 1678 in Oden (Sweden), † June 5, 1762 in Zweibrücken ) was a Swedish builder .

Life

Jonas Erikson Sundahl was probably born on April 11 or 16, 1678 in Oden in the Swedish Warmth Valley as the son of the ship's captain Olaf Erikson Sundahl von Gjäserud. His brothers were Mons Erikson Sundahl and Olaf Sundahl.

At the age of 11, Sundahl is listed as a student at Uppsala University in 1689 . When Charles XII. from the house of Pfalz-Zweibrücken was the Swedish king, his governor Gabriel Oxenstierna brought Sundahl to the Palatinate duchy in 1702. On November 11, 1705 Sundahl married in Frankfurt am Main Anna Dorothea von Bein (1680–1726) from a large city patrician family , with whom he had 13 children, most of whom died early. His third son, Johann Gottfried Christian Sundahl, probably worked as a surveyor in Blieskastel and in the Kaiserslautern area. He entered into a second marriage on July 26th, 1732 with Katharina Sophia geb. Heinztensberger, who was also widowed.

Sundahl worked for over 50 years in a leading position in the ducal building administration with an interruption from 1725 to 1731, when Charles François Duchesnois ousted him. Most recently he worked as a construction and renovation director with the title of court chamber councilor and was replaced in his activities in a smooth transition by Christian Ludwig Hautt .

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His first surviving work is a plan of the inner and outer trench at the upper gate in Zweibrücken from 1702. For the expelled Polish King Stanislaus I. Leszczyński , Charles XII. Built Sundahl had granted asylum to two bridges in 1714, east of the city, above the Schwarzbach , the pleasure palace Tschifflik this fashion (Turkish = Cottage) with garden houses, ponds, waterfalls, greenhouses and outdoor stage, an exotic small architecture, 40 years before the English garden architecture arose . The complex was surrounded by a pheasantry, the walling of which is still partially in place to separate the forest from the Luitpoldpark and Ehrbusch . When Charles XII. died in 1718, Stanislaus moved his domicile to Weißenburg . A romantic hotel is housed in the buildings that still exist today. In May 2008 a project to reconstruct the baroque garden monument was completed. Also on behalf of the Polish king, Jonas Erikson Sundahl rebuilt the Gräfinthal monastery, which had been largely destroyed, from 1714–1719 .

Zweibrücker Castle

Sundahl created his other major works during the reign of Gustav Samuel Leopold , especially the Zweibrücker Residenzschloss around 1725 , which was rebuilt after the destruction in 1793 and 1945 and today houses the Palatinate Higher Regional Court , but also the Gustavsburg in Homburg - Jägersburg . As a church architect, Sundahl was active in the northern Palatinate districts of the duchy and created the pretty baroque churches of Rathskirchen and Niederkirchen in 1723 , but also the court and mountain church in Bergzabern , the portal of which is very similar to that of the Zweibrücker Karlskirche, also from Sundahl. The Schwedenhof in Einöd also dates from 1723 . The prestigious noble house in Schwarzenacker was built a year earlier, and today the exhibits that were found during the extensive excavations of the Roman town of Schwarzenacker are shown in its premises . From 1725 to 1730, the Louisenthal Castle near Wörschweiler was built for the Duke's wife, Louise von Hoffmann, near a medicinal spring at the time. The ducal porcelain factory was later housed here under Christian IV . One wing of the complex as well as the chapel, the old brewery and the castle park are still preserved, while the central building was demolished in 1802. Sundahl's works still show the influences of the so-called Ticino building school of the Swedish Renaissance architect Nicodemus , especially in the structure of the wall surfaces. As was customary at the time, Sundahl was also responsible for land surveying as a land renovator, which took up a considerable amount of his working time.

literature

• Edestam is different: Jonas Erickson Sundahl. Gåserudspojken, som blev konstnär and hovman. 1954. (Swedish)
• Karl Lohmeyer: The baroque Zweibrücken and its masters. 1957, pp. 11-28.
• Jonas Erikson Sundahl (1678–1762), building and renovation director of Pfalz-Zweibrücken. (Book accompanying the special exhibition in the Zweibrücken City Museum on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of Sundahl's death) Ottweiler 2012.
• Ernst Heinrich Kneschke , New General German Adels Lexicon , Volume 9, S.114