Lambert Friedrich Corfey

Lambert Friedrich von Corfey (born October 11, 1668 in Warendorf ; † February 18, 1733 in Münster , Westphalia ) was a German architect and military engineer .

Life

Lambert Friedrich Corfey was the son of the brigadier of the same name Lambert Friedrich Corfey. The father was a major general in the services of Kurkölner and Stiftmünster . At the siege of Belgrade in 1688 he was chief of the artillery and as such made a decisive contribution to the conquest of the city. As a geometer and master builder, he earned further services. So he was, often criticized, responsible for the construction of the Max-Clemens-Canal .

Between 1698 and 1700 Corfey made a cavalier tour through France and Italy (with a detour to Malta) together with his brother Christian Heinrich Corfey , which he described in detail in his travel notes. In Paris, he visited the building projects that came into being under the government of Louis XIV , and above all the Palace of Versailles . In Italy, which he reached by ship via Marseille and Genoa, he mainly visited Pisa and Florence and stayed in Rome for six months. He then traveled to Sicily and Malta via Naples. The way back took him via Bologna, Venice, Munich, Vienna and Strasbourg.

Like his brother, who succeeded him in 1734 with the rank of major general, Corfey remained unmarried.

Buildings

Lambert Friedrich Corfey: Design made in Holtz For your choir [ürstliche] Dorchl [aucht] from Hanover

As an independent architect, Corfey did not make an appearance, but mostly in connection with building projects by Gottfried Laurenz Pictorius , for whose planning he often submitted competing designs, for example for Haus Steinfurt , Haus Lütkenbeck , Schloss Rheder , Haus Venne , Schloss Senden , Haus Stapel , the Kettelersche Curia in Münster and an estate in Rödinghausen . In his (unrealized) preliminary project for Nordkirchen Castle , he cited motifs from the Louvre in Paris . The construction of a country estate for Elector Georg Wilhelm von Hanover in Herrenhausen , which was modeled on the Villa Rotonda and Villa Trissiono, both by Andrea Palladio , and Marly-le-Roi Castle by Jules Hardouin, is an unusual plan -Mansart , who verifiably visited Corfey in 1698. The most important building by Lambert Friedrich von Corfey is the Dominican Church in Münster , built from 1708 to 1725 , in which he used the model of the Sorbonne Church , built in 1635 by Jacques Lemercier .

In all of his projects, Corfey shows his affiliation with the baroque classicism of north-western Europe through the use of simple, classic designs and a very flat wall relief , with the French component clearly emerging. In this regard, his work differs significantly from that of his successor Johann Conrad Schlaun , who was more strongly oriented towards the Roman Baroque.

Fonts

Travel diary 1698–1700 . Edited by Helmut Lahrkamp (= sources and research on the history of the city of Münster , new series, vol. 9). Münster 1977, ISBN 3-402-05534-1 .

literature

Johann Josef Böker : Unknown plan drawings by Lambert Friedrich Corfeys . In: Westfalen , Jg. 67 (1989), pp. 171-183.
Johann Josef Böker: A plan by Lambert Friedrich Corfeys for Nordkirchen Castle . In: Westfalen , Jg. 68 (1990), pp. 89-100.
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.
Gerd Dethlefs: "Weylen this work to splendid the churches". Corfey and Pictorius' plans for the Kettelersche double curia on Cathedral Square in Münster . In: Udo Grote (Ed.): Westphalia and Italy. Festschrift for Karl Noehle's 80th birthday , Petersberg 2002, pp. 153–171.
Johannes Janssen : The Münster Chronicles by Röchell, Stevermann and Corfey . In historical sources of the Diocese of Münster , Volume 3, Münster 1856. Digitized version of the Bavarian State Library.
Helmut Lahrkamp: Lambert Friedrich Corfey . In: Westfälische Lebensbilder , Vol. 14. Aschendorff, Münster 1987, ISBN 3-402-06065-5 , pp. 78-100
Jochen Luckhardt : The Dominican Church of Lambert Friedrich Corfey in Münster. Studies on the history, form and function of a religious order "around 1700" . Diss. Münster 1977.
Karl Eugen Mummenhoff : Contributions to the architectural oeuvre of Lambert Friedrich Corfey . In: Westfalen , Jg. 62 (1984), pp. 93-128.
Josef Bernhard Nordhoff : Corfey, Lambert Friedrich von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 480 f.

Individual evidence

↑ Gerd Dethlefs: The Brigadier Lambert Friedrich Corfey (1645-1700) . In: Sources and research on the history of the city of Münster , New Series, Volume 9. Münster 1977, pp. 339–355.
↑ Gerd Dethlefs: The Corfeys in Warendorf . In: Paul Leidinger (Ed.): History of the city of Warendorf , Vol. 1: Pre- and early history, Middle Ages, early modern times (before 1800) . Ardey-Verlag, Münster 2000, Vol. 1, pp. 705-716.
↑ Georg von Alten, Georg Karl Friedrich Viktor von Alten: Handbook for Army and Fleet. Encyclopedia of Martial Sciences and Allied Fields . Vol. 2, p. 841.
↑ Helmut Lahrkamp (ed.): Lambert Friedrich Corfey, travel diary 1698–1700 . In: Sources and research on the history of the city of Münster, New Series, Volume 9. Aschendorff, Münster 1977.
^ Johann Josef Böker: Unknown plan drawings by Lambert Friedrich Corfeys . In: Westfalen 67, Jg. (1989), pp. 171-183.
^ Johann Josef Böker: A plan by Lambert Friedrich Corfeys for Nordkirchen Castle . In: Westfalen , Jg. 68 (1990), pp. 89-100.
^ Jochen Luckhardt: The Dominican Church of Lambert Friedrich Corfey in Münster. Studies on the history, form and function of a religious order "around 1700" . Diss. Münster 1977.

personal data
SURNAME	Corfey, Lambert Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Corfey, Lambert Friedrich von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect and military engineer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 11, 1668
PLACE OF BIRTH	Warendorf
DATE OF DEATH	February 18, 1733
Place of death	Munster , Westphalia

[1] Gerd Dethlefs: The Brigadier Lambert Friedrich Corfey (1645-1700) . In: Sources and research on the history of the city of Münster , New Series, Volume 9. Münster 1977, pp. 339–355.

[2] Gerd Dethlefs: The Corfeys in Warendorf . In: Paul Leidinger (Ed.): History of the city of Warendorf , Vol. 1: Pre- and early history, Middle Ages, early modern times (before 1800) . Ardey-Verlag, Münster 2000, Vol. 1, pp. 705-716.

[3] Georg von Alten, Georg Karl Friedrich Viktor von Alten: Handbook for Army and Fleet. Encyclopedia of Martial Sciences and Allied Fields . Vol. 2, p. 841.

[4] Helmut Lahrkamp (ed.): Lambert Friedrich Corfey, travel diary 1698–1700 . In: Sources and research on the history of the city of Münster, New Series, Volume 9. Aschendorff, Münster 1977.

[5] Johann Josef Böker: Unknown plan drawings by Lambert Friedrich Corfeys . In: Westfalen 67, Jg. (1989), pp. 171-183.

[6] Johann Josef Böker: A plan by Lambert Friedrich Corfeys for Nordkirchen Castle . In: Westfalen , Jg. 68 (1990), pp. 89-100.

[7] Jochen Luckhardt: The Dominican Church of Lambert Friedrich Corfey in Münster. Studies on the history, form and function of a religious order "around 1700" . Diss. Münster 1977.