Martin Grünberg

Martin Grünberg (* 1655 in Insterburg , East Prussia ; † between October 16 and 23, 1706 or 1707 (exact date of death unknown) in Berlin ) was a Berlin architect and builder.

Life

Draft for the Parochial Church in Berlin

Martin Grünberg worked in Berlin from 1687 after having made several trips to France and Italy. In Berlin he took part in the construction of Friedrichstadt and supervised the building industry in the Kurmark as an employee of the chief architect of the Electorate of Brandenburg Johann Arnold Nering , whose successor he was from 1695 to 1698. In 1698 he handed over the associated tasks in the construction of the palace and residence buildings to Andreas Schlüter and subsequently remained a master builder (building the city of Lenzen on the Elbe).

In 1701 Grünberg became the first architect and builder to become a member of the Academy of Arts and the Royal Prussian Society of Sciences .

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Former hunting lodge in Fürstenwalde

Martin Grünberg, like his predecessor Nering, is one of the representatives of the Dutch Baroque . Among other things, he constructed the extension of the Marstall building on Unter den Linden to the later Dorotheenstrasse - including the first Berlin observatory - and the Jungfernbrücke (formerly Spreegassenbrücke ). He placed a special focus on church buildings, including the Old Garrison Church , the New Church (today the German Cathedral ) and the Sebastian Church (later Luisenstadt Church ). He also made the design for the conversion of the baroque riding house into a Franco-German double church on Berlin's Friedrichswerder .

The design for the town hall of Cölln

In addition, he was temporarily the leading builder at the Berlin armory and the Parochial Church . Grünberg built the Cölln town hall for the city of Berlin , and a few town houses above it in Breiten Straße . In 1699/1700 he built for Elector Friedrich III. the hunting lodge Fürstenwalde .

literature

Günther Schiedlausky : Martin Grünberg. A builder from the Brandenburg region from the turn of the 17th to the 18th century . Burg bM: Hopfer 1942.
Günther Schiedlausky: Grünberg, Martin. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 187 f. ( Digitized version ).
Hans-Jürgen Mende , Kurt Wernicke: Berlin district lexicon - center . Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89542-111-1 .

Web links

Commons : Martin Grünberg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Kathrin Chod, Herbert Schwenk, Hainer Weisspflug: Grünberg, Martin . In: Hans-Jürgen Mende , Kurt Wernicke (ed.): Berliner Bezirkslexikon, Mitte . Luisenstadt educational association . Haude and Spener / Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89542-111-1 ( luise-berlin.de - as of October 7, 2009).
Grünberg, Martin . gerhildkomander.de - with list of works + literature

Individual evidence

^ Members of the previous academies. Martin Grünberg. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on March 31, 2015 .

personal data
SURNAME	Grünberg, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German builder
DATE OF BIRTH	1655
PLACE OF BIRTH	Insterburg , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH	between October 16, 1706 and October 23, 1707
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Members of the previous academies. Martin Grünberg. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on March 31, 2015 .