Lorenz Dohmsen

Lorenz Dohmsen (* before 1670; † 1711 in Hamburg ) was a German builder and the manager of the building yard in Hamburg.

Life and Buildings

Lorenz Dohmsen managed the building yard of the city of Hamburg from 1670 to 1711. During his service, numerous functional buildings were built, including the Kummerbrücke, armories for the artillery, guard buildings and stables, a mill on the Mühlenbrücke and a cow mill in Mundsburg . The building yard at Deichtor , which his predecessor Hans Hamelau had started, was also completed under Dohmsen's direction.

Dohmsen used local style elements in his buildings, including often half-timbered construction methods that were known from the Vierlanden and Marschlanden . In addition to urban buildings, he designed the village church in Moorfleet in 1680/81 . It is the only building by the builder that has survived today. The abandoned buildings included the eaves-facing facade of the orphanage on Rödingsmarkt, designed with colossal pilasters, and in 1704 a well house on Großneumarkt , which had round arches between half-columns and which, thanks to a baroque, curved domed roof, looked like a summer house.

literature

• Hermann Heckmann: Dohmsen, Lorenz . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 2 . Christians, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , pp. 106 .