Martin Peltier de Belfort

Martin Peltier de Belfort (* before 1738; † 1769 ) was a Walloon Dutch engineer and architect who was born in the Walloon Provinces of the Netherlands (now Belgium ) and was a ducal agricultural master in the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel from 1744 until his death .

Life

Schliestedt Castle in Rococo style

Rococo pavilion Stöckheim

Peltier's tail arch at the Sondershäuser Castle

Before moving to Braunschweig , Peltier was commissioned by the Bremen Senate in 1738 to continuously excavate the Weser channel, which was silting up again and again, to a depth of 3.5 meters using wind-powered excavators and excavator wheels of initially 12 meters and then after four years an even larger diameter . in order to secure the lake access which is vital for Bremen. The attempts were unsuccessful; a solution was only found in the second half of the 19th century with the Weser correction .

One of the first projects that Peltier received in Braunschweig was making the Schunter navigable for rafting and cargo transport from 1746 to 1749 . From 1752 to 1754 he realized the outer north wing of the Braunschweig Palace according to the plans of his predecessor. The Stöckheim rococo pavilion, which he built for the banker Friedrich Wilhelm Metzner in a baroque park, is characteristic of his architectural style, which is characterized by the play with asymmetries .

On the orders of Karl I von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1713–1780), Peltier gave Karl II. Wilhelm Ferdinand (1735–1806) architecture lessons .

In the 1760s, Peltier was also the “state master builder” in the Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg .

At the end of the 1760s he was also active in the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen . The then Prince Christian Günther had a special relationship with both Braunschweig and Bernburg. That is why he was also familiar with the architect Peltier. He should come to Sondershausen and at least carry out the stucco work on the newly built west wing (1764–1771) of the Sondershäuser Palace . The architect Johann Heinrich Breit had previously designed and managed this extension. It is not known exactly what connection and relationship the two architects were. Breit planned and carried out the construction and Peltier designed the decorative elements (perhaps also part of the wing).

More work

Peltier built Harbke Castle from 1751 to 1759 after the Renaissance castle built in the 16th century was destroyed by fire on October 26, 1731. In 1760 Schloss Schliestedt was built , which is ascribed the strongest rococo structure for the region. In Ballenstedt , at the time the residence of the Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg , built Peltier 1756. 1733 built armory to a guest house and order today Schlosshotel Großer Gasthof. In 1770 the rococo hunting lodge Röhrkopf was built according to his plans in the castle park there .

Ballenstedt, Jagdschloss Röhrkopf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Example of this expression: Eobald Toze: History of the United Netherlands from the Eldest to the Present Times. Halle 1771, Volume I, p. 205: " And at this time the king also founded the high school in Douay so that the Walloon Dutch would not have to bring their children to Geneva, where the improved teaching was introduced ".
2. ^ Friedrich Christoph Jonathan Fischers: History of the German trade. Part 3, Hanover 1791, p. 472: This alliance had no effect on the Spanish Netherlands, as soon afterwards the “ Walloon provinces separated themselves completely from the association. "
3. ↑ The construction of the shipping route. In: Schuntersiedlung-online. Jan Gäbler, accessed on May 30, 2010 . 
4. ↑ The history of the Braunschweig castle. In: braunschweig.de. City of Braunschweig, accessed on May 30, 2010 . 
5. ^ Rudolf Zehfuß: The Rococo Pavilion. In: braunschweig.de. City of Braunschweig, accessed on May 30, 2010 . 
6. ↑ Peter Bessin: The Regent as Architect: Richmond Palace and the Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttels pleasure palace buildings between 1680 and 1780 as a paradigm of princely self-representation . In: Reconstruction of the Arts . tape 5 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2001, ISBN 978-3-525-47904-9 , pp. 183 ( in Google Books [accessed May 30, 2010]).
7. ^ History and antiquity association for Sondershausen and the surrounding area eV (Ed.): Püstrich: Mitteilungsblatt . tape August 3 , 1990.
8. ^ Castles and palaces in the Wolfenbüttel district - details page. (No longer available online.) In: Burgeninventar. Andreas Hein, archived from the original on August 16, 2010 ; Retrieved May 30, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.